The document outlines extension programme planning, which involves designing a course of action for well-defined target groups through a series of organized activities. It emphasizes the importance of this planning to avoid resource wastage, provide guidance, and foster local support, while introducing a six-phased planning model. Key principles of effective programme planning are also discussed, highlighting the need for flexibility, joint participation, and continuous evaluation.

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