Development Policy Planning & practice

Q: Why Are you interested in pursuing the course

My long-term career goal is to become a policy-maker or policy-analyst and contribute to this field as this is, in
my knowledge, the sole area with which we can foster development in our country. I perceive this area as a
ladder of development and I wish to see our nation walk on the path of progress and it can only be possible
when all members residing in this country live in harmony and peace. .
I am looking forward to pursue this course as it would serve as a means to develop disciplinary, multidisciplinary perspective; empower me to bring a change foster the development of critical understanding of
issues policies face in implementation at grassroots level.
India is a developing country accommodating over 120 crore people and I am, with all proofs, a member of this
country and consider myself equally responsible as others for letting the weeds of development growing. When
I state developing, I acknowledge the fact that its still developing and has a lot of uncovered issues to work
upon in order to foster development and come across various challenges. Unlike developed countries, its task
is not just to maintain, but also to work forth in order to meet the needs of people and hear the voice of
marginalized section of country. I would like to state the issues India is facing which we are not unaware of and
need dire attention. These are Population, Poverty, Education, Unemployment and Corruption and all of them
affect each other in some or other way. In order to bring harmony and well-being, it is an alarming time to bring
change.
My interest is not just limited to knowing the policies formulated in country but also the process it undergoes,
how it is being implemented and the challenges policy makers face throughout the process. Since, well-being
of all members of society is one of the major steps of our agenda, the kind of short-comings faced during the
execution or implementation of policies so far, I believe, is an important factor to analyze in order to work on it
and improve the process of implementation. When I mention well-being of all, I mean all the people sharing
the country, irrespective of age, class, creed, race, religion, gender, socio-economic background. I do
understand that planning a policy for people living in diverse regions and facing different kind of issues is no
easy task as the process includes formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. I argue about the
loop holes this process have, the reasons of its failure right after formulation at next level- implementation.
I wish to upgrade my knowledge, skills in this area; sharpen my critical lens while working in this sector and
bring changes.

I belong to a nuclear family with one elder sister and two brothers. I
hailed up in Delhi NCR region learning various phases of development
and growth in the metro city of Delhi. I was inclined towards
innovations since my childhood. I always prefer to do extra-curricular
efforts along with regular school and college activities. My interest
led me joined technical education to shape up my technical thoughts.
In my family social service culture was promoted by my father and my
sister also joined hands in the same sector. I always discard
discrimination based on caste creed, rich & poor and gender.
A turning point in my life inclined me towards working for social
cause. While going through streets of the city we often find street
children. Once during Diwali festival season when we were out for
exchanging gifts, I found a brother and sister by the side of road
where brother was convincing the sister who was crying by giving a
rupee 2 coin. The girl was so happy to get it and exclaimed that she
will buy a dress for Diwali from it. I was touched from inside to see

how they are keeping themselves happy in meager situations. This

incidence led me to touch base with local slums and socially
challenged communities. My exposure to slums and other similar
settlements where basic needs were lacking opened my vision to
understand process of development is purely lacking for socially
challenged communities. However, being a citizen of the country they
equally deserve the better living conditions and source of livelihood
but they totally lack process of development. During my engagement
with the organization I contributed voluntarily to learn various needs
of the community. There I found that process of development is slow
and at times does not exist in such habitations. The organizations
working in the area are delivering set activities due to paucity of
funds.
I aim to enhance my technical skill attained during Bachelors with
professional qualification of development policy, planning and
practice to understand various facets of development process and
implement the same for welfare of the marginalized sections.

Q. Mention any work done

My inclination towards social sector developed from within my family.
My father is active social mobilizers and generalist who always
advocate on social issues of communities. During my final year of
study, I got attached with an NGO, working closely with slums of NCR
region. The NGO was running various development programs for
development of poor community. I volunteered for 8 months during my
college and immediately after it to support girl children and women
groups in building their skills for alternative sources of income
generation. I have my childhood hobby of utilizing scrap material and
design various useful material for home decoration and toys for
children. Hence, I utilized the same to impart training to groups to
establish their small scale home business. During my exposure I also
came to know about different basic issues of community such as water &
sanitation, electric supply, process of resettlement and advocacy with
Government to reset such communities. I want to prepare myself for
broader issues of community through learning from the desired course
in interactive environment

Q. 13 Biographical sketch
Ms Sakshi Chaudhary earned her Bachelors of Technology in electronics
and communications from Uttar Pradesh Technical University. She
completed her schooling from Delhi. Sakshi belongs to a nuclear family
with one sister and two brothers. She is a fun loving and creative
person. Sakshi has led school and college groups during various forums
and has been house captain during school and vice-president during her
college for college technical society and head for inter-college
technical society. She has been proactive in extra-curricular
activities during her studies and has won several awards for her
performance.
Sakshi has organized various cultural events such as college fest,

fashion week and traditional art design during her college time and
her hobbies includes painting, art work and reading books. Sakshi
belongs to a close-knit family of six members. Her father and sister
are involved in social sector, brothers are in college and mother is a
homemaker.
Sakshi is an optimistic girl and love to accept challenges in her
life. She has undergone a medical condition which made her completely
bed ridden but due to her will power and commitment, she is back in
life enthusiastically. She love innovations and creativeness and is
linked with institutions/NGOs to deliver her services in the form of
imparting art skill, educating children and empowering girls.
Her short term goal is to sharpen her skills through professional
qualification in the development sector and work closely with socially
marginalized sections and she forecast herself to establish an
institution where skill transfer options may be available for poor and
needy people to earn their livelihood.