New Delhi, June 1 -- Reliance Foundation's Rural Transformation Programme has shown the evidence of improvements in rural well-being in four clusters of Balangir (Odisha), Mandla (Madhya Pradesh), Adoni (Andhra Pradesh), and Radhanpur (Gujarat) over a decade with interventions on water security, sustainable agriculture, and nutrition, an Observer Research Foundation (ORF) report noted.

The program was launched in 2010-11 and covered 560 villages across 27 clusters in 12 states, focusing on land and water development, productivity enhancement, farmer collectives, and local governance. The second phase, from 2019 onwards, scaled the effort to around 3,000 villages across 26 clusters in 11 states, and placed greater emphasis on convergence ...