What was the full form of the famous programme "DPAP", conducted for natural…
2021
What was the full form of the famous programme "DPAP", conducted for natural resource management by the Ministry of Agriculture (Govt. of India)?
- A.
Drought Prone Areas Programme
- B.
Dry land Project for Andhra Pradesh
- C.
Doubling Production from Agricultural Projects
- D.
Dual Policy on Agricultural Productivity
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Correct answer: A
Concept
DPAP is one of India's earliest area-development schemes. Its name encodes what it does: it targets regions that repeatedly suffer from a scarcity of rainfall and works to restore their ecological balance through watershed-based development of land, water, livestock and human resources.
Application
Reading the acronym D-P-A-P against the stem (a Ministry of Agriculture programme for natural-resource management in rainfall-scarce regions):
D - relates to the recurring water-scarcity (drought) condition the scheme tackles.
P-A - the geographic units it works on: the affected areas.
P - it is a centrally framed Programme of long-term rural works.
So the expansion is "Drought Prone Areas Programme" - a scheme launched in 1973-74 (Fourth Five-Year Plan) to mitigate the adverse effects of drought on crop production and on the productivity of land, water and people through integrated, watershed-based development.
Cross-check
The expansion fits the stem on every count: it is an Agriculture-Ministry natural-resource-management programme aimed at chronically rainfall-deficient regions. The other three expansions name schemes or policies that do not correspond to the DPAP acronym at all.