Question

Different persons could have different as well as conflicting notions of a country's development

Answer 1

Yes diff person could have diff as well as conflicting notions:
1)More wages means dev.For a worker but it can go against the entrepreneur2) A rich farmer or trader wants to sell his/ her food grains at a higher price but a poor workers want to purchase it on a lower prices3) construction of dam will mean more and cheaper power, but people, who will loss their habitat will demonstrate
4)to get more electricity industrialists may want more dams but This may submerge the agricultural land and may disrupt the life of the people

Answer 2

Different persons have different notions of development because life situations of persons are different. Development goals of a girl from a rich urban family will be surely different from a farmer in Rajasthan. It is because their situations, lifestyle and status are very different from each other. A goal which a person has entirely depends on his or her present life situation. Over a period of time if the situation changes, automatically goals of a person will also change