India is basically a country of the village. Rural people of this country are poor and conservative. They suffer from unemployment and under-employment and are not able to have normal standard of living .If India has to make real progress, this Rural Society has to progress.
Community Development Programme as we know is a socio economic programme aimed at development and re construction of the Rural Society.
Children love play more than any thing else in the world. The friend giving companies to them in their plays are very close and intimate. These friends are children from different families.
Society is a web of social relationships. It includes every relationship which established among the people. This social relationship may be direct or India organised or unorganized, conscious or unconscious. But community consists group of individuals.
A community always occupies a definite geographical area. Locality is the physical .basis of community. Without a definite locality, social relations between human beings cannot be established and the ‘we’ feeling cannot evolve.
Man cannot live alone. He is related in many ways to his fellows to form a group. But it is not possible for man to become the member of all groups. He establishes relations only with those people who reside near him in a definite locality.
Rural reconstruction may be said to have a material, intellectual and a moral aspect. Materially it implies improving health of the rural communities and arising their living standards. The intellectual aspect contemplates the need for better educational facilities.
Community is an informal and active agency of education. It is defined as a group of families settled together in a particular area with more or less common practices, ideals, ideas, values and culture.
Community health is defined more broadly and encompasses the entire gamut of community-organized efforts for maintaining, protecting and improving the health of the people. It involves motivation of the individual and groups to change the pattern of behavior.
This branch is concerned with the application of psychological principles for solving the social problems arising in community life. Unhealthy relationships among the different groups in a community, and frustrations resulting from unemployment etc.