Chidambaram announces new programme for rural India

Chidambaram announced the budget would lay stress on development of six areas -- irrigation, roads, water supply, rural electrification, housing and rural connectivity.

Launching Bharat Nirmal Programme to give a new deal to rural India, Chidambaram announced the budget would lay stress on development of six areas -- irrigation, roads, water supply, rural electrification, housing and rural connectivity.

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The proposal is to provide additional one crore hectare of irrigation, construct 60 lakh houses for poor, connect all villages with 1,000 population in plains and 500 in hilly areas with roads, drinking water to 74,000 remaining habitations and electricity for 1,25,000 remaining villages and telephone connectivity to 66,822 villages.