Integrated Rural Development Programme: A Study of Problems and Prospects in Punjab

20 per cent agricultural labourers agricultural production animal husbandry asset group assistance average value Batala beneficiary and non-beneficiary beneficiary households benefits Bhatinda block cent households Consumer consumption expenditure crossed the poverty cultivators Delhi distribution of consumption district DRDA economic employment Evaluation family income family labour Faridkot farm Figures in parentheses GINI RATIOS green revolution Gurdaspur Haryana hectares IADP implementation improved increase India inequalities Integrated Rural Development IRD programme IRDP scheme Items labour days lakh lakh mandays land landless labourers landowner households livestock loan Lorenz Curve Ludhiana Malout mandays marginal and small marginal farmers NABARD non-beneficiary households NREP Overall parentheses are percentages perusal of Table poverty line Punjab real wages rural areas Rural Development Programme rural poor rural poverty Sangrur districts scheduled castes scheme income selected beneficiaries shows Sixth Plan small farmers Sudhar survey target families target group total assets value of assets villages weaker sections