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Write short note : Integrated Rural Development Programme.

  • UPSC 1988
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

The Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP), launched in 1978-79 and extended to every block by 1980, was independent India's largest anti-poverty experiment. Where the Community Development Programme treated the village as the unit and land reform the tenure, IRDP took the poor household as its unit and capital as the missing ingredient.

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