Voluntary organisations can play a pioneering role in the country’s development-Elaborate.

 Voluntary organisations are a great force of development. The State alone does not have the capacity and time to deal with multi-dimensional aspects of development. It needs to partner with other institutions outside its formal structure and can complement its efforts for development. Voluntary organisations are the best expression of informal support and contribution toward the State's development goals. Due to their personal touch and close connection with the people, voluntary organisations can play a pioneering role in the country's development.

They serve in the following ways:-

1. They function as a link between the State and people. They act as a reliable source of information and feedback to the government, thus helping the design and implementation of development plans. Due to their informal networking, they serve as the voice of the people and ears of the government.

2. They act as a mechanism for information dissemination. Despite the State’s efforts, many people who are poor, uneducated, and unaware do not know about various development schemes and plans. Voluntary organisations disseminate this knowledge among people and make them accessible to them.

3. Voluntary organisations reach many people and take the development plans to the grassroots levels, which in some areas may be difficult in rigid government structures.

4. Voluntary organisations also help implement various development plans and programmes; for example, Akshay-Patra of Rajasthan helps the government implement the Mud-Day meal scheme in Jaipur.

5. Their continuous awareness and follow-up keep the government and administration on being alert and responsive to people ‘s needs and demands. Various measures such as Public Interest Litigation, Right to Information, sensitise the system for development plans.

6. Due to their personal touch, they can better mobilise the public and community resources. During the Covid-19 period, voluntary organisations came forward as a greater force for resource mobilisation.

7. During disasters, voluntary organisations help in fast and rapid action by mobilising the local resources and providing in-house arrangements to deal with the same.

8. Voluntary associations are essential platforms to nurture democratic values and the holistic development of individuals. They channelise individual energies into the collective whole and mobilise them for the more significant benefit of society.

9. Voluntary organisations promote diversity and open-mindedness in society while guarding and reinforcing cultural, ethnic, religious, linguistic, and other identities.

10. Voluntary organisations generate a substitute to centralised state agencies and provide services with more objectivity and flexibility.

11. Voluntary organisations inspire citizens in all facets of society to act rather than rest on State authority and charity.

12. Voluntary organisations create the apparatuses by which governments and the market can be held accountable by the public.

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