Literacy Campaign, Land Literacy and Watershed Development Subrata Sinha Arun Ghosh Even political organisations with the best of intentions and honesty believe in 'doing good' to the deprived in accordance with their perceptions, subconsciously shunning community empowerment for fear of losing influence. Such groups would prefer to depend on their elected candidates bound by party discipline to follow their dictates. Unfortunately, this is today the reality in West Bengal, which has otherwise made good progress on the rural front.
