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How did the introduction of Community Development Programme and Panchayati Raj promote welfare of rural India?

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  • Economic Development and Political Change

Launched within a decade of Independence, these two institutions were conceived as the "welfare state in the villages," reaching where centralised planning alone could not.

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  • The Community Development Programme: Vision and Machinery
  • Panchayati Raj: Institutionalising Local Self-Government
  • Welfare Outcomes: What Rural India Gained
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