2. Group members
Name Registration
Syed Moinuddin Ahmad 2018237044
Md. Shafikul Islam 2018237045
Sakhawat Hosen 2018237051
Nayem Ahammad 2018237062
Babli Marma 2018237070
Md. Abu Taher 2018237078
3. Introduction
Integrated Rural Development Program is a comprehensive
programme to help families who live below the poverty line to
enhance their state of living and to empower the poor by helping them
develop at every level. The Integrated Rural Development Programme
(IRDP) is a scheme to help the poor and make them self-confident by
improving their skill set. It took by the government in 1970s decade, as
most of our population are farmers and work in the fields.
4. Rural Development
Rural Development is the overall development of rural
area.
According to Robert Chamber, "Rural Development is the
strategy to enable a specific group of people (Small scale
farmers, the tenants, the landless, the poor men and
women) to gain what they want and need for themselves
and for their children.
5. Integrated Rural Development Programme
Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) is a
comprehensive programme to empower the poor by
helping them develop at every level.
The Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) is a
scheme to help the poor and make them self-confident by
improving their skillset.
6. Background of IRDP
In Bangladesh the concept of integrated efforts in rural development
came even earlier in 1960's. In 1963 it was decided to experiment with
the two- tier cooperative system of Comilla. Under an expansion and
programme in three outside districts.
In 1972, the government activated the Integrated Rural Development
Programme (IRDP) to replicate and expand the Comilla Model in
other parts of the country. In December 1982 the IRDP was converted
into Bangladesh Rural Development Board(BRDB).
The number of and donor allocations to IRDP projects increased
rapidly in the mid 1970's.
7. Scope and features of work of IRDP
The rural farmers, labourers, marginal farmers, schedule cast, and
scheduled tribe, and economically backward classes whose annual income
is less than 11,000 are the beneficiaries of the Integrated Rural
Development Program, IRDP.
A subsidy of 33.3 per cent is given to those farmers who are considered as
marginal farmers, and also to the agricultural labourers.
The family who belongs to the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe and the
differently abled person get a 50 per cent subsidy.
Women are entitled to have a 3 per cent subsidy under this scheme of
Integrated Rural Development Program, IRDP.
Training programme for youth skill development undertaken by different
institution within IRDP.
8. Activities generated by IRDP
A thana/upazila (subdistrict) training and development
center.
A rural works program (physical infrastructure).
A thana/upazila irrigation plan .
A two-tier cooperative system consisting of farmers’
cooperatives (Krishak Samobay Samities, KSS) and a
Thana/Upazila Central Cooperative Association (TCCA or
UCCA).
9. Objectives and vision of IRDP
To organise "Comilla-type Cooperatives" for optimum utilisation of
human as well as material resources available for development,
To organise farmers into cohesive and disciplined groups for planned
development,
To boost agricultural production in the shortest possible time through
group action,
To integrate all supplies or services for effective utilisation of resources
for productive purposes.
To study, experiment and plan for comprehensive rural development,
To help develop local leadership through continuous training and group
action.
10. Strategies: Models and institutions linked up with IRDP
IRDP is not a distinct programme under a specific organisation or
institution. By time, it has been implemented through different institution
and model. They played an important role to provide the advantages of
this programme to the root people simultaneously.
11. The strategies could defined under the concept of:
Comilla Model.
Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB)
Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD).
12. Comilla Model
Comilla Model integrated four distinct components in every Thana
(sub-district) where it was implemented:
establishment of a training and development centre TTDC (Thana
Training and Development Centre),
a road-drainage embankment works programme,
a decentralised, small-scale irrigation programme, and
a two-tiered cooperative system, with primary co-operatives
operating in the villages, and federations operating at Thana level.
13. Bangladesh Rural Development Board
It is the most extensive service-oriented institutional setup of the
Government of Bangladesh, is directly engaged in rural development and
poverty alleviation activities in Bangladesh.
BRDB closely follows, reflects, supports and reinforces the GOB goal,
vision and policies for socio-economic development for rural development
and poverty reduction.
It operates by organizing small and marginal farmers, asset fewer men,
women and destitute freedom fighters into cooperative societies and/or
informal groups and providing them with short and long-term credit,
technology for their socio-economic wellbeing and training.
14. Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development
Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) an autonomous
national institution for training, research and experiment on rural
development.
The Academy's research is aimed at collection of socio-economic data for
the purpose of planning and project preparation. Research findings are
used as training materials in the Academy and as information materials
by ministries, the Planning Commission, and policy makers.
The Academy involved villagers and local councils in the development of
physical infrastructures through an experimental project, which later
came to be called Rural Works Programme (RWP).
15. Success of IRDP
IRDP had been very successful in boosting agricultural production.
New Projects:
- Training and Education Program.
- IDA Rural Development Program.
- Integrated Rural Information Service.
- Spread of modern irrigation equipment.
- Increase of command area.
16. Failures of IRDP
Powerful village groups, primarily large farmers, continued to maintain
control over various resources as the main cause of failure of this
model.
The expected “trickle down” effects of previous development
interventions had not materialized.
