CONTINUATION ON THE MAJOR PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

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THE PRINCIPLE OF FELT NEED: This stress that the people must be able to identify what they want to do in order to achieve their desired development. This is possible if they are able to do understand what stands in their way to progress and are able to do something to remove it. The obstacle is known as the problem of such community. The idea of need arises from the lack or absence of something which, in the opinion of such a population, would facilitate the improvement of the welfare of the community if it had been present or available. Hence anything which may be considered essential for the maintenance of a desired state of affairs is a need. A need represent an imbalanced or lack of adjustment between a present situation or conditions, and a new and changed set of conditions assumed to be more desirable. A need therefore exposes the problem, as it implies a gap between the two conditions of what really exists in the life of a community.
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