The NES blocks were subsequently converted into CDP blocks.
From 1 April 1969, the CDP was transferred from the central sector to the state sector.
The CDP had to be expanded phenomenally under political pressure and soon it became a national programme encompassing 400 million rural people across the four corners of the country.
Consequently, both the programme as well as the inputs had necessarily to be diluted under this abnormal rate of expansion. The CDP now covers all the rural areas in the country.