01256pab a2200145 454500008004000000100001800040245007800058260000900136300001600145362001100161520083500172650004701007650002201054773003401076180718b2005   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aVira, Bhaskar  aDeconstructing the Harda experience: limits of bureaucratic participation  c2005  ap.5068-075.  a26 Nov  aThe Harda experience initiated in the early 1990s suggests that the participatory forestry experience has been neither an unqualified success nor an unmitigated failure. The findings in this paper points to the fact that despite 10 years of collaborative forest management the hierarchical and unequal relationship between the state and local people has not changed in many places. As shown by the Harda experience the bureaucratic mode of participation encouraged by the state fosters an inequality that has drawn criticism from tribal organisations. The conflict manifests itself in everyday issues that arise in the implementation of participatory forest management within the inherently hierarchical social structureand a development paradigm still dominated by a relatively unaccountable and paternalistic state. -Reproduced.  aForest management - India - Madhya Pradesh  aForest management  aEconomic and Political Weekly