Winning over wastelands
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29/12/2000
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Indian Express (New Delhi)
From the Chief Minister of Andhra pradesh to a block development officer touring the parched fields of Madhya Pradesh.Shrugged off as mission Impossible by the Planning Commission for the last four years, the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradeshg, Gujarat and Rajasthan are now gingerly taking the first steps in an ambitious 15-year journey to enrich 175 million hectares of degraded wasteland in six lakh Indian villages.