"Different persons can have different developmental goals." Explain the statement with examples.

(i) Aspirations and aims are different for all as development or progress means different to different persons.

(ii) For example- A landless rural labourer aspires to have more days of work and better wages; local school for quality education for their children; no social discrimination and opportunity to become leaders in the village.

(iii) Prosperous farmers from Punjab aspire for a high family income through higher support prices for their crops and through hardworking and cheap labourers so that they are able to able to settle their children abroad.

(iv) A girl from a rich urban family gets as much freedom as her brother and is able to decide what she wants to do in life. She is able to pursue her studies abroad.

(v) Two persons or groups of persons may seek things which are conflicting. A girl expects as much freedom and opportunity as her brother, and that he also shares in the household work. Her brother may not like this. Similarly, to get more electricity, industrialists may

(vi) want more dams. But this may submerge the land and disrupt the lives of people who are displaced – such as tribals. They might resent this and may prefer small check dams or tanks to irrigate their land.

(vii) Sometimes, what maybe development for one may not be development for the other. It may even be destructive for the other.