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Write short note : Poverty alleviation programmes.

  • UPSC 2001
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

Poverty alleviation programmes are the Indian state's direct attack on deprivation, adopted once it became clear that neither land reform nor the Green Revolution would lift the rural poor on their own. Sociologically they are an attempt to change life chances without changing the agrarian structure that produces them — which is both their design…

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