Extension Management Ability of the Programme Coordinators of Krishi Vigyan Kendras

The study was carried out selecting a random sample of 160 Programme Coordinators of five years old KVKs of all the eight zones of India with full-fledged activities in the service of farmers. The Ex-Post-Facto Research Design was used for this study. The data were collected through mail questionnaire as well as interview schedules either by contacting through post or personal contacts. The suitable statistical tools were used to analyze the data. The study reveals that slightly more than half of the programme coordinators of KVKs had high level of planning ability (51.25%), majority of them had medium to high level of organizing capacity (85%), high level of ability of directing their subordinates (76.87%), high level of ability of communication (58.13%), medium to high level of capacity to maintain human relations (91.87%), high level of lead taking behaviour (61.88%), supervising ability (71.26%), coordinating ability (62.50%) and medium level of overall extension management ability (68.12%), whereas slightly less than half of the programme coordinators had high level of decision making capacity (45.00%) and high level of controlling power (48.12%). The personal variables of programme coordinators of KVKs such as; young age, higher education, vigorous status of health and rural native place, while organizational variables like; conducive organizational climate, needed organizat ional facility and bet ter interpersonal communication, whereas socio-psychological variables for instance; extrovert personality and positive attitudes towards extension work and low level of job stress played significant role on their extension management ability. The positive attitude towards extension work, extrovert personality and favourable organizational climate together accounted 55.70 per cent variation in extension management ability of the programme coordinators of KVKs.