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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Under National Rurban Mission, how many Smart villages can be developed over the next 3 years across the country
A
400
B
250
C
150
D
300
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A Rurban cluster, would be a cluster of geographically contiguous villages with a population of about 25, 000 to 50, 000 in plain and coastal areas and with a population of 5000 to 15000 in desert, hilly or tribal areas.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rurban Mission which is wide known as National Rurban Mission is Initiated on September 2015 by Ministry of Rural Development, India.

Detailed explanation-3: -Parson in 1949 exposed the idea of “rurbanisation” in his book – Essays in Sociological Theory. According to him, Rurban communities are the rural socio-geographic spaces where styles of life and the standard of living have changed so much that they resemble those in urban localities (Parsons, 1949, p. 435).

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