| Article ID: | iaor19942267 |
| Country: | South Africa |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 13 |
| End Page Number: | 20 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1993 |
| Journal: | Orion |
| Authors: | Kanniappan P., Thangavel K. |
| Keywords: | programming: linear, developing countries |
The problem considered in this paper is to select various schemes under the Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP) and to maximize the number of beneficiaries so as to optimize the annual income generated from each scheme. There are typical constraints prescribed by the government in the allocation of funds to several schemes from the budget outlay for IRDP each year. In this paper, with the help of the data drawn from the District Rural Development Agency of Dindigul Anna District, Tamil Nadu, India, the authors develop a linear programming model for maximizing the annual income generated from the schemes.