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Describe the salient features of the poverty alleviation programmes. What modifications would you suggest to make them more effective?

  • UPSC 2007
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

India's poverty alleviation programmes were born of an admission: growth alone would not reach the poor. V. M. Dandekar and Nilakantha Rath, in Poverty in India (1971), showed mass deprivation persisting alongside rising agricultural output, and the state turned from trickle-down to a direct attack on poverty. The result is a recognisable architecture — and…

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  • Salient features: a family of six strands
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