Several pilot projects aimed at overcoming the weakness in government policies have been suggested in this paper. Pilot projects can only be replicated if constant monitoring, documentation, and by carrying out periodic evaluations. These in turn must make appropriate modifications in the project methodology or implementation procedures. For this process, the involvement and/or creation of institutions that can undertake these activities is essential. The suggestions made in this paper for modifications to the existing government policies sound very ambitious. However, the enormity of the problem and of the change in rural society; the technical and financial inadequacy of rural agencies involved with development; the increasing burden of foreign debt on the federal exchequer, all demand a search for new and viable models of development. If this search is not successful, then all planned development will come to a grinding halt.

A new and viable social model, keeping in view the changes that have taken place, needs to be developed to replace the old and now extinct form of village government. Through this model, the management of community lands, forests, skills, and credit may be undertaken. Extension of technical research to this model or to already existing rural building industry, can then become possible. If this scheme can work on a pilot level, its replication on a larger scale way must be promoted. Action research, social and technical, and its extension, is the first need for such an exercise.