While continuing to resisitthe anti-poor development processes in the statethrough people's movements, the project-affected people along with other deprived sections of society would like to opt for the sustainable development practices. their search for development without deprivation is matched with those of the practitioners in the small scale industries, who are also threatened by the Govt.'s industrial policy, which favors big business houses and multi-national companies. thusthe alternative development practice seems to be the point of convergence of the deprived sections of society and the practitioners in the small scale industries. Both agree that the alternative development approached must be pro-poor, labour intensive, small sclae based, resource regenerating, basic needs targeted and without causing displacement, besides being owned, managed and benefited by the people whose resources are used for the development purposes. Since there already exist some alternative development models of various types in the country, it is high time that these are discussed along with the clearer understanding of sustainable development, its strategies and action to initiate or replicate such development practices in the state.
