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Revision note: Self-Help Groups, Development Processes and the Role of Civil Services


  • Development thinking: growth → basic needs → structural adjustment → human development (1990 HDR, Sen) → SDGs
  • SHG: 10–20 members; joint liability; NABARD SBLP 1992; MYRADA; Grameen (Yunus)
  • SGSY 1999 → NRLM 2011 → DAY-NRLM 2016; federations; Lakhpati Didi
  • Kudumbashree (Kerala, 1998)
  • AP microfinance crisis 2010 → Malegam Committee; EShakti digitisation
  • Civil services: Art 312 AIS; Art 311 safeguards; Art 310 pleasure; Patel's "steel frame"
  • Reforms: Mission Karmayogi 2020, lateral entry 2018, TSR Subramanian 2013, Prakash Singh 2006
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