Principles and Techniques of Veterinary and AH Extension

PHILOSOPHY BEHIND THE IRDP PROGRAMME

• A large body of economic experts have shown in their studies that economic growth may be able to raise per capita incomes in developing countries, but it may not be accompanied by a reduction of poverty as well as elimination of unemployment and under employment.
• The percolation of benefits of economic growth to backward areas and the poor people has not taken place. To remedy this situation it was thought necessary that a direct attack on poverty should be made. This necessitated programmes for alleviating rural poverty by endowing the poor with productive assets or skills so that they can employ themselves usefully to earn greater income and thus cross the poverty line.
• To achieve this objective, draft sixth plan 1978-1983 (revised) visualized an integrated programme of rural development, within which a specially directed programme for the rural poor was conceived.