Integrated Rural Development Program launched in 1978 during the fifth five-year plan, but implementation started only after 1980 due to stoppage of the fifth five-year plan in 1978 and two rolling plans were implemented from 1978 to 1980.
It is a centrally sponsored scheme with a 50: 50 share between center and state.
Aims:
- Employment opportunities for poor
- Enhancing living standard through enhancing skill
- Elimination of Rural Poverty
Strategy:
- Providing Subsidies as well as loans to the below poverty line public for self-employment. Provision of advanced credit from institutions like commercial banks, cooperative banks, and regional rural banks.
The following are beneficiaries;
- Labour
- Small and Marginal Former
- Scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, the backward class having less than 11,000 annual
- For Rural cottage employer
- 40 % of women beneficiary
- 3 % Handicap
Targeted areas:
The following are seven target areas:
- Tribal Areas of Madhya Pradesh and Orissa
- Agriculturally developed areas of Punjab, Haryana, and Andhra Pradesh.
- Agriculturally less developed areas of Eastern Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra
- Hilly areas of Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu
- Desert Areas of Rajasthan
- Areas having well administrative of Gujarat, Kerala, and Karnataka
- Areas having poor administration of Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh.
Evaluation of Integrated rural development program:
- Ministry of Rural development recommended setting up District Rural Development Agency ( DRDA) for planning. But no uniform pattern was followed regarding setting up.
- No resource survey of local areas leads to poor planning
- No prerequisite training for dealing officer leads to poor implementation
- Some states were not willing to share the burden of 50 % load
- The inadequate infrastructure of credit, basic amenities in areas for proving the benefits
- No, follow up for maintenance of the asset
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