GK
SOIL AND AGRICULTURE
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Question
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Village
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Family
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District
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Community Development Block
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Detailed explanation-1: -Explanation: Basic unit of planning is family and basic unit of development is village under Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP).
Detailed explanation-2: -The basic objective of IRDP is to enable identified rural poor families to augment their incomes and cross the poverty line through acquisition of credit based productive assets. Assistance is given in the form of subsidy by the government and term credit by the financial institutions for income generating activities.
Detailed explanation-3: -Department of Rural Development and Department of Land Resource. Being the nodal Ministry for most of the development and welfare activities in the rural areas, the Ministry of Rural Development plays a pivotal role in the overall development strategy of the country.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rural development means an action plan for the economic and social upliftment of rural areas. 2. It aims at improving the quality of life of people living in rural areas. 3. It focuses on the action for the development of areas that are lagging behind in the overall development of the rural economy.