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Economic Times: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam has said that all activities under Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA) should focus on employment generation.
Addressing a special consultation meeting on ‘PURA as a model of sustainable rural development’, he said employment generation alone could address the problem regarding upliftment of over 220 million people.
Agriculture had been growing at a rate of 1.6 per cent. “If we have to uplift poor and provide them quality life, agriculture sector should grow at least by four per cent a year,” he said. Read on …