Name: Lifting India Out of Poverty: The Five-Year Plans
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 4 min 37 s
Description: As a newly independent nation, India and its people wanted to lift the poor out of poverty and develop the country’s economy. Let’s see how.

Question

Discuss the steps taken by the government for poverty alleviation programme in the agricultural sector and the programme &lsquo;Gramodayathi Bharat Uday&rsquo;.

Accepted Answer

Under ‘Gramodayathi Bharat Uday’ programmes, farmer-oriented plans were made to prevent loss faced by the farmers due to wild animals damaging the crops.

Farmers were provided economic help to build fencing to protect tethers, production of grass for cattle at the time of crisis, or drought, and help to construct cattle shelter for, rain forecasting and discovering mineral-rich regions through ultra-modern satellite or drone techniques. Provision is made to maintain a record of land survey.

They get help in the form of availability of finance at a low rate of interest for mechanization of farming e.g. to purchase a tractor and mini tractor, help in the form of subsidy.

This programme aid the farmers in the construction of water tank, improving quality of plantation crops, computerizations in agriculture.

Under this scheme a new testing laboratory was set up for the production of cotton, pulses, spices, management to see that farmers get a suitable price, making ponds, deep by removing soil from them, increasing drops and size, construction of farm pond, cleaning the canals and reservoirs for water storage and increasing their length, resettlement of water tank and repairing of check dams and increasing water storage capacity, etc. so that, farmers may get employment during time apart from farming.

Discuss the steps taken by the government for poverty alleviation programme in the agricultural sector and the programme ‘Gramodayathi Bharat Uday’.

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