Which of the following statements is incorrect?

a- Hill Area Development Programmes were initiated during the Eighth Five Year Plan.

b- Hill Area Development Programmes covered 15 districts in all from various states of India..

Only statement a is incorrect.

Hill Area Development Programmes were initiated during the Fifth Five Year Plan covering 15 districts comprising all the hilly districts of Uttar Pradesh (present Uttarakhand), Mikir Hill and North Cachar hills of Assam, Darjeeling district of West Bengal and Nilgiri district of Tamil Nadu. The National Committee on the Development of Backward Area in 1981 recommended that all the hill areas in the country having height above 600 m and not covered under tribal sub-plan be treated as backward hill areas.