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The minimum number of women required for formation of women groups under Development of women and children in Rural Areas Programme is?
A
20
B
15
C
10
D
5
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The basic unit under the DWCRA programme is forming a group of 10-15 poor women who help each other and use their collective strength to break social bonds that deny them income-generating and self-fulfilling opportunities.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rural women are key agents for development. They play a catalytic role towards achievement of transformational economic, environmental and social changes required for sustainable development.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rural women are torchbearers for social, economic and environment transformation for the ‘New India’. In India, Agriculture employs about 80 percent of rural women.

Detailed explanation-4: -While men works in farms, women are responsible to do household works which include cooking food, washing clothes and looking after the family.

Detailed explanation-5: -Identification and selection of members for the scheme has to be made carefully. The unemployed womenfolk within the age group of 18-60, whose opportunity cost should be near zero, belonging to the weaker sections should be the target groups.

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