Indira Jala Prabha Programme: Its impact on Living Standards.

      Аннотация: The book focuses on “Indira Jala Prabha Programme”, a rural development a pioneer poverty reduction intervention Scheme. “Indira Jala Prabha” is the flagship programme of Govt. of Andhra Pradesh with NABARD and MGNREGS with a view to consolidate the gains made in the Land Development Project and to ensure sustainable and comprehensive development of the land securing livelihoods. The project aims at providing assured source of irrigation to the fallow and uncultivable land belonging to Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes farmers of the state. This will act as a welfare measure in terms of enhancing the productivity of the lands thus maximizing their incomes thereby improving living standards. The book gives clarity of concepts and theoretical knowledge on various aspects of Indira Jala Prabha Programme. It will be useful for the students with the curriculum of social sciences especially Economics, Sociology, Social Work and Rural Development etc. In this book an attempt has been made to simplify the concepts that are applying for Rural Development.

Ключевые слова: agriculture, living standards, rural areas, Indira Jala Prabha, Employment, irrigation, Land development, Liivelihood Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes