The Integrated Rural Development Project

• IRDPs adopted the conventional extension system described earlier and focused on the intensity with which to implement the extension interventions.
• The projects in different locations varied in terms of project components, level of funding,
• coverage of geographical area from a single district to the entire zone, density of extension service, and so forth.
• The Ministry of Local Development (MLD) was the central coordinating agency and the Project Coordinator was deputed from there.
• Individual components were to be implemented by the respective ministries through their district-level line agencies.
• Some of the earlier IRDPs provided project allowance to the manpower working under the project but this was later discontinued as it adopted a discriminatory policy compared to the staff doing similar jobs elsewhere outside the project.