Community Development Programme 1952. In the early 1950 s as the rural community development council program was being adopted on a national scale cdf worked to provide displaced farm workers with jobs in local industries. The cdp was mainly aimed at the development of.
But professionally trained social workers concentrated their practice in urban areas. Industrial employment totaled 1 900 workers and rockwell opened in tupelo as a result of 120 000 in incentives. Nearly one out of every three villages in india was brought within the orbit of this programme.
The community development programme was inaugurated on october 2 1952.
Each of the community development projects covered an area of about 450 500 sq miles with about 300 villages and a population of about 2 lakhs. Post independence the first major development programme launched in india was community development programme 1952. Five years later the second general flections took place in the first quarter of 1957. Fifty five community projects were launched.
