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Write short note : Planning for the rural poor: IRDP and NREP.

  • UPSC 1985
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

By the late 1970s Indian planners accepted what V. M. Dandekar and Nilakantha Rath had shown in Poverty in India (1971): growth was not reaching the poor. The response was a two-track strategy — the Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) for those who could be made self-employed, the National Rural Employment Programme (NREP) for those…

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