The state governments selected the following seven districts for implementation of
the IADP: Thanjavur (Tamil Nadu), West Godavari (Andhra Pradesh), Shahabad
(Bihar), Raipur (Madhya Pradesh), Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh), Ludhiana (Punjab) and Pali
(Rajasthan). The Goi approved the implementation of the Programme in these seven
districts in June 1960. The seven districts were delimited into 140 community development
blocks with 14,038 villages and the total gross cropped area of about 45 lakh hectares.
At the behest of the Gol, the IADP was later extended to eight more districts, one each
in eight other states.