What are the important elements of Drought Prone Area Programme?

Important elements of Drought Prone Area Programme:

• Providing employment to the people in drought-prone areas and creating productive assets.
• Initially, this programme laid emphasis on the construction of labour-intensive civil works. But later on, it emphasised irrigation projects, land development programmes, afforestation, grassland development and creation of basic rural infrastructures such as electricity, roads, market, credit and services.
• This programme is largely confined to the development of agriculture and allied sectors with a major focus on the restoration of ecological balance. 
• Adoption of integrated watershed development approach at the micro-level. 
• The restoration of ecological balance between water, soil, plants, and human and animal population is a basic consideration in the strategy of development of drought-prone areas. 

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