An example of Target group programme is
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A
Hill Area Developement Programme
B
Marginal Farmers Developement Agency
C
Command Area Developement Programme
D
Desert Developement Programme
Correct Answer
Marginal Farmers Developement Agency
Detailed Explanation
- The planning process has to take special care of those areas which have remained economically backward.
- As you know, the economic development of a region depends upon its resource base.
- But sometimes resource-rich region also remain backward.
- Economic development requires technology, as well as, investment besides resources.
- With the planning experience of about one-and-a-half decades, it was realised that regional imbalances in economic development were getting accentuated.
- In order to arrest the accentuation of regional and social disparties, the Planning Commission introduced the ‘target area’ and target group approaches to planning.
- Some of the examples of programmes directed towards the development of target areas are Command Area Development Programme, Drought Prone Area Development Programme, Desert Development Programme, Hill Area Development Programme. The Small Farmers Development Agency (SFDA) and Marginal Farmers Development Agency (MFDA) which are the examples of target group programme.
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