1. Extension Programme
Planning
Rajinder Kaur Kalra
Professor and Head (Retired)
PAU Ludhiana 9814067709

2. • Planning: designing a course of action to achieve ends
• Programme: well-organized series of activities to facilitate
change in a well-defined target group.
• Progrmme Planning: the process of making decision about
the direction and intensity of the educational effots required
• Extension Programme: written statement prepared on the
basis of extension programme planning

3. Extension Programme planning
• a continuous and cooperative activity, involving –
• local people and the
• extension personnel,
where problems are identified, objectives are set forth and
action is taken to reach the objectives

4. Importance of Extension Programme
Planning
• Avoid wastage of resources
• Provide guidance
• Continuity
• Provide reliable information
• Institutional support
• Leadership development
• Minimize conflicts
• Local Support
• Avoiding future problems

5. Programme Planning Model

6. Programme Planning Process
Sandhu (1994) suggested a six phased programme planning
model:
1. Organisation for planning
2. Planning Process:
• Reach understanding regarding principles, procedure, roles
and time schedule
• Analyse situation
• Determine objectives
• Select problems with due regard to priorities
• Find solutions

7. 3 Planned programme
Prepared a written statement of:
• situation
• objectives
• problems, and
• solutions
4 Plan of work
• prepare a plan of work containing information regarding:
• people to be reached
• goals,dates and places
• teaching procedure to be followed
• duties, training and recognition of leaders
• roles to be played by extension personnel, and
• role to be played by other agencies

8. 5. Execution of plan of work
• Make advance arrangement forinputs and teaching aids
• Interpret the approved programmeto the staff and
people’s representatives
6. Evaluation of accomplishments
• Do concurrent evaluation
• Do ex post facto evaluation

9. Principles of Programme planning
• Principle of felt needs
• Principle of joint Participation
• Principle of flexibility
• Principle of simplicity
• Principle of coordination
• Principle of satisfaction
• Principle of practicability
• Principle of comprehensibility
• Principle of achievability
• Principle of evaluation