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Discuss how watershed management has become a tool in eradication of rural poverty in India.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Regional Development and Planning

About 60 per cent of India cultivated area is rainfed — one uncertain kharif crop, no assured recharge, degraded commons — and it is there that rural poverty and distress migration concentrate.

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