Explanation:

In India, Community Development Project (CDP) was launched under the Five-Year Plans on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on 2nd October 1952 to carry out the objectives outlined in the draft of the plan. According to Planning Commission of India, ‘CDP is the method and the rural extension the agency through which the Five-Year Plan seeks to initiate a process of transfor­mation of the social and economic life of the villagers.’