N E RURAL DEVELOPMEN

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The project provides for: the improvement of access to isolated villages through construction of about 1,300 km of village access roads and the improved maintenance of about 2,000 km of existing feeder roads; the improvement of village water supply through construction of about 4,000 tubewells and the construction or rehabilitation of small dams and ponds; the electrification of 346 rural villages; the strengthening of upland crop research and the expansion of agricultural extension services; the study of land settlement areas and the undertaking of selected infrastructure improvements.