Sectional Interest Groups
- A section of society: Workers, employees, businesspersons, industrialists, followers of a religion, caste groups, etc.
- Their principal concern is the betterment and well being of their members, not society in general. Sometimes, these organizations are not about representing the interest of one section of society.
- They represent some common or general interest that needs to be defended.
- The members of the organization may not benefit from the cause that the organization represents.
Public Interest Groups
- Promote collective rather than selective good.
- They aim to help groups other than their own members.
- In some instances, the members of a public interest group may undertake activities that benefit them as well as others too.
- Movement Groups
- Most of the movements are issue specific movements that seek to achieve a single objective within a limited time frame.
- Others are more general or generic movements that seek to achieve a broad goal in the long term.
- Movements of this kind tend to have a clear leadership and some organization.
- Their active life is usually short.
- The Nepalese Democratic Movement and Narmada Bachao Andolan are some examples of movement groups.
- Environmental movement is a label for a large number of organizations and issue specific movements.
- National Alliance for Peoples’ Movements (NAPM) is an organization that functions for various movements.
- Groups struggling on specific issues are constituents of this loose organization which coordinates the activities of a large number of peoples’ movements in our country.
|
