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Discuss the concept of Command Area Development and evaluate its success with reference to Indira Gandhi Canal.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Regional Development and Planning

A command area is the culturable area a canal system can serve; Command Area Development builds out that area so the potential already created is actually taken up. India's irrigation effort had stopped at the dam, main canal and distributary; below the outlet, nothing was built.

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  • The Concept: A Programme Built for the Last Mile
  • The Instruments — Everything Below the Outlet
  • Evaluation: The Indira Gandhi Canal Command

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