Human Research Development: A Case Study of an NGO in Assam

¾ Out of 760 families, 123 families are fully engaged in cultivation as their

primary source of income.

¾ Less than 50% of the families have their own cultivation land, but the

cultivations are done using old techniques.

¾ In more than 80% cases, vegetable farming has been observed to be done for

the purpose of self consumption. Only a small number of families carry out

cultivation for commercial purposes.

¾ People of the area are traditionally expert weavers, producing good quality

traditional clothes but having limited designs. Due to lack of business

acumen, lack of adequate capital, lack of modern equipments and lack of

innovative designs skills, the weavers cannot harness their quality weaving

skills commercially, thus lacking a good source of income.

¾ Majority of the children do not avail the existent education facilities which is

mainly due to the fact that they belong to very poor families and are expected

to help their parents in running the household and cultivation related works

on a day-to-day basis.

Conclusion

The above discussion has made it clear that development is possible when a

human being is developed. A human being can only be developed when his/her

hidden qualities are addressed and this is possible only through research. Because

of this now a day Human Research Development has become the buzzard word.

It is the human behaviour which can give a positive and negative impetus to any

effort. So the research institutes and NGOs who are engaged in research activities

need to follow the same, rigorously to maintain a balance between human and its

behaviour through facts and figures.The study has also highlighted the contribution

of SNEHPAD in the field of HRD. To improve the social, economical, physical

condition of a human being the whole village had been surveyed. NGO had been

facilitated with multifarious information related to problems, resources to fight

problems through identification of skills, knowledge, abilities of a human being

through scientific study of the selected village. During conversation, the villagers

too addressed the strenuous effort taken by the NGO for the promotion of human

being through the utilization of their own assets. As a result, an individual could

realize his/her unexplored potentials and get motivated to utilize these potentials in

a more productive way. In this direction few suggestions can be made to improve

the quality of life.

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