ABSTRACT
Special emphasis was placed in the pilot project on careful staff selection at the district level. Instead of a "Segmented" approach to rural development of department carrying out its own program it would be built on an integratedruraldevelopmentapproach. Closely related to integrated, rural development approach and the use of the "team" was innerdemocratization. Community development represented an integrated approach to small area development which it, rather than the technical departments, would control. Victor Thompson's comments on the "new" function of program, provides a useful entry into their discussion of the clash between ministries of Community Development and Food and Agriculture and the generalist versus specialist approaches which they represented. The opposition intensified with the advent of C. Subramaniam, who provided the Ministry of Food and Agriculture with strong and able leadership, but one which was opposed to any important continuing role for community development.
