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Discuss the challenges in implementing the Rural Development Programs in India.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

From the Community Development Programme of 1952 to today's employment and livelihood missions, India's rural development effort has never been short of design or money; it has been short of delivery. The difficulty is sociological — programmes are inserted into a village stratified by land, caste and gender, and administered by a bureaucracy oriented upward…

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  • Structural challenges: programmes meet an unequal village
  • Administrative challenges
  • Delivery, targeting and participation challenges
  • Conclusion

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