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Discuss the Command Area Development Programme and its impact on eliminating regional inequalities in India.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Regional Development and Planning

Launched in 1974-75 as a centrally sponsored scheme applying an integrated area-development approach to the commands of major and medium irrigation projects; restructured as CADWM in 2004 and carried since 2015-16 under Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana — Har Khet Ko Pani. Its instruments all act inside a command; whether such an instrument can touch…

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  • The Programme, Nationally
  • The Case That It Narrowed Regional Gaps
  • The Case Against
  • Judgement

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