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The Minimum Needs Programme (MNP), introduced during the Fifth Five-Year Plan, primarily aims to:

  1. A
    provide means for greater mechanization of agriculture.
  2. B
    improve the living condition of the poor and also promote their education and health.
  3. C
    provide necessary resources by way of refinance to primary lenders.
  4. D
    None of the above

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The Minimum Needs Programme (MNP) was launched in the first year of the Fifth Five Year Plan (1974) to ensure certain basic minimum standards of life (such as rural health, water supply, primary education, roads, and electrification) to people below poverty thresholds.

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The Minimum Needs Programme (MNP), introduced during the Fifth Five-Year Plan, primarily aims to:
A
provide means for greater mechanization of agriculture.
B
improve the living condition of the poor and also promote their education and health.
C
provide necessary resources by way of refinance to primary lenders.
D
None of the above

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