"1 STUDY OF IMPACT OF INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (IRDP) ON ITS BENEFICIARIES IN KALLAM TALUKA OF 0SMANABAD DISTRICT
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1989
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Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri
Abstract
India is a vast country. It stands seventh in the
world in terms of area and ranks second largest in terms
of population. As per 1981 census country's population
was 668 million. Out of this about 78 per cent live in
rural areas and nearly 48 per cent of them live below
poverty line.
A large proportion of the rural population is
subject to low income and poverty. Both Central and State
Governments have been implementing various developmental
welfare programmes for improving the conditions of poor
sections for the last one and half decades of planningThe number of developmental schemes like Command Area
Development Scheme, Drought Prone Area Development Programme,
Small Farmers' Development Agency and Marginal Farmers and
Agricultural Labourers etc. were introduced from time to
time. Integrated Rural Development Programme is one of
them which was launched in the year 1978-79. The main
objective of this programme is to identify the weaker
sections, who are below poverty line viz., small farmers,
marginal farmers, Agricultural labourers, rural artisans,
small and petty business men etc., to lift them above the
poverty line by providing productive assets. With this
background study entitled, WA study of Impact of Integrated
Rural Development Programme on its beneficiaries in Kallam
Taluka of Osmanabad District (M.S.)M has been conducted
and tried to highlight the impact of IRDP implementation
in the selected villages of the Block and also suggests
suitable measures for its effective implementation.
The present study was conducted in Kallam Taluka
of Osmanabad district comprising 121 villages. Ten
villages were purposively selected. The list of benefi
ciaries from selected villages were obtained from the
Gramsevak and Panchayat Samiti Office, and then 150
beneficiaries were selected by the 'n'th method of rando
mization. Thus, the number of beneficiaries selected was
proportionate to the total number of beneficiaries in the selected villages. Additional five members were selected
from each village in view of the probability of non
availability of the respondents for interview due to some
reasons. The data were collected from the 150 selected
beneficiaries during their leisure time with the help of
well prepared interview schedule.
The qualitative data were quantified in view of the
objectives. Simple percentageswere worked out to describe
the characteristics of the beneficiaries as well as to
find out problems of the beneficiaries with respect to IRDP
and information sources used by them. The extent of impact
of IRDP on the beneficiaries considering different impact
aspects was calculated by assigning scores. To find out
relationship between selected characteristics and impact
aspects i.e. increase in annual income, employment oppor
tunities, extent of loans and subsidies secured, increase
in capital resources, adoption of relevant agricultural
technology, increase in material assets, nutritional status,
health services, educational facilities and family planning
measures, coefficient of correlation (r) was calculated.
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