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Even after nearly seven decades of Independence, poverty alleviation remains a sought after goal in the political and academic agenda. Efforts at reducing poverty especially the rural poverty have broadly been either disguised in the application of economic planning or have taken the route of poverty alleviation schemes. The successes and misses of these schemes are significant in understanding the next step to poverty reduction. This paper discusses all the centrally sponsored poverty alleviation programmes for the rural India in the decade of 1970s and beyond. Also the evaluation studies for each of these schemes conducted by the government bodies or at their behest have been summarized. The study feeds on secondary data sources and qualitatively puts forward value judgements in context of aiding the compilation of the said schemes.

Keywords

Poverty, Poverty alleviation, Rural poverty, Poverty programmes

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