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YOUTH PERCEPTION REGARDING NGO FUNCTIONING: A SURVEY BASED STUDY IN DELHI-NCR

ABSTRACT

The NGOs have been instrumental in the past few decades in shaping the realities of human lives across the world. The developing world has been benefitted more in terms of the efforts put in by the NGOs and also the outcome. The nature of the contribution of the NGOs has been different in the developing world in comparison to the developed world. This also means that the challenges and expectations have been different as well. The existing literature also confirms these trends prevailing in the sub-continent. Majority of the studies are based in the developing world but with relatively fewer in the Indian context. Moreover, the existing studies have mostly been case studies of the successful NGOs which have transformed the lives of the people. However, majority of the studies are ignoring the macro-view of the NGO functioning, viewing it from the general people’s perceptions who are important stakeholders in the entire idea of development. This study tries to find out what the people belonging to a specific age group (18-30 years) feel about NGOs and their efforts in ensuring urban and rural development. This is a survey based study of 120 respondents with structured questionnaire as the tool for data collection. The statistical tests used in this study include Chi-square Test for independence and Mann-Whitney U-Test. The results indicate no difference in the perception of the respondents belonging to different gender and working status regarding the functioning of NGOs for rural and urban development, and the use of media for this purpose. In general it can be said that the perception is same across respondents which is mostly tilted towards dissatisfaction.

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