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Rural development ministry starts DRDAs restructuring

Against the Planning Commission's and the ministry of panchayati raj's views of abolition of District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), the ministry of rural development has initiated process for restructuring of DRDAs. Last month, the rural development ministry had asked the states and Union Territories to send suggestions on the restructuring of apex body supervising anti-poverty programmes at the district levels since 1980.