Community and Community Development
Community:
A community is a group of people, who live in a common geographical area and have an interest in each other for the purpose of making a better living.
Development:
It is a gradual growth with sequential phases of change. It is socio-economic progress or over all growth in desirable changes in all sectors of rural life.
Community Development:
It is a continuous social process for change and wherein the group of people of a community organize themselves for planning and action, define their common and individual needs and problems, make up plans to meet their needs and solve the problems with execution of their, plans by utilizing maximum local community resources and supplement these resources whenever it is necessary.