How many total major and medium Integrated Tribal Development Projects are in existence in Madhya Pradesh in 2023 - 24 ?

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Correct — C, 31. Madhya Pradesh's Tribal Affairs Department administers its tribal sub-plan area through 26 major (वृहद) and 5 medium (मध्यम) Integrated Tribal Development Projects — 26 + 5 = 31 — and separately through 30 MADA pockets and 6 small cluster (लघु अंचल) projects. The department's own description of its set-up gives exactly this break-up, and each project carries a Project Administrator/Officer responsible for scheme formulation, budget management, supervision, monitoring and coordination among the development departments working in that area.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Lower than the count of major projects alone (26), so it cannot be the major-plus-medium total.  (b) The near-miss for a half-remembered '26 major projects' — and it leaves out the 5 medium projects that the question explicitly asks you to add.  (d) 36 is what you get by adding the other two categories — 30 MADA pockets + 6 small cluster projects. Those units are counted separately from the Integrated Tribal Development Projects and are not part of the major-plus-medium total.

Concept: The Integrated Tribal Development Project is the field unit of the Tribal Sub-Plan strategy adopted from the Fifth Five Year Plan (1974–79). Contiguous areas where Scheduled Tribes form a majority were grouped into ITDPs/ITDAs; smaller concentrations outside those blocks were covered as MADA (Modified Area Development Approach) pockets and, below that, as clusters; and the most fragile groups were taken up under separate PVTG programmes. Madhya Pradesh, which has the largest Scheduled Tribe population of any Indian state, runs all four layers at once.

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