Hi, children, I am Nirmala. And today we are going to do Economics, Chapter number one and the name of the lesson is Development. Let us understand exactly what is Development.

My dear children, in simple language, development means progress. And in this lesson we will make a beginning in understanding what development means in terms of individuals and in terms of nations. Let us try to try to imagine what development is to different persons. What are their development goals or aspirations?

The development goal of a landless rural labourer is he wants better wages, second he wants more days of work, and further he wants local schools for his children, so they become educated. Also he wants no social discrimination. So, you see that there are four development goals of this landless rural labourer.

For a prosperous farmer from Punjab, his goal is high prices for his crops, high family income and hard working and cheap labourers. For a farmer who depends only on rain for growing crops, any guesses what will be his aspirations? You are right, his aspiration is he would want adequate rainfall. And in case of no rains, he would want irrigation facilities.

For a rural woman from a land owning family, her aspiration is to have a share in the families land holding. She would want her family, her society to give her respect and dignity and quality education for her children.

For an urban unemployed youth, the aspiration, the goal will be employment and not just a temporary job, but he wants a secured job, that is job security.

Let’s move further, for a girl from a rich urban family, what will be her development goal. Yes, she wants a safe and liberal environment, which every woman across the country aspires. Second, she would love to study abroad. And third very interesting is that she wants her brother should also contribute in housework.

For a boy from rich urban family, the aspirations will be different from that of the girl. His aspiration is to have a carefree life with no responsibilities whatsoever and to study abroad.

Let us go to the last individual by the name an Adivasi from Narmada valley. The Adivasis say we do not want huge dam constructions, reason because they will submerge our land and they will disrupt our lives. We want dams, yes, but we want small check dams or tanks.

So let us see here, the development goals of so many individuals. We saw here the development goals of so many individuals. Each one of them seeks different things, second they seek things that are most important for them.

So, we sum it up by saying that what we saw earlier was different people have different goals.