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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Reaching development to the rural poor.

  • UPSC 1987
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

The persistent puzzle of Indian rural development is not the volume of expenditure but its destination. Programmes are designed for the poor and captured by the not-poor. Reaching development to the rural poor is therefore a problem of targeting, delivery and voice, and it is sociological before it is administrative.

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  • Why development does not reach the poor
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