Study on Personal, Socio-Economic and Communication Characteristics of Grampanchayat Members of Banaskantha District of Gujarat State.

摘要

Keeping in the view of Gram Panchayat members about agricultural development programmes, the present study was undertaken in Palanpur, Dessa, Dhanera and Dantiwada Taluka Panchayat of Banaskantha district of Gujarat State. From each talukas five Grampanchayats were randomly selected and six Grampanchayat members were selected randomly from each Grampanchayat toget total 120 respondents for study. Majority of the respondents were from middle age, having education up to middle school level, belonged to open caste category, agriculture as their main occupation with medium land holding, annual income, social participation, mass media exposure, training received and cosmopoliteness. As regards to leadership background most of them had no leadership background and have medium level of leadership experience.