With reference to the Modernisation of Command Area Development and Water Management (M-CADWM) scheme, consider the following statements: 1. It utilizes SCADA and IoT technologies for real-time water accounting in irrigation networks. 2. The original Command Area Development Programme was launched concurrently with PMKSY in 2015. 3. It involves Irrigation Management Transfer to Water User Societies linked with FPOs. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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b) 1 and 3 only — Statements 1 and 3 are correct. M-CADWM introduces SCADA and IoT for water management and transfers asset control to Water User Societies. Statement 2 is incorrect because the original Command Area Development Programme was launched in 1974-75, decades before PMKSY was introduced in 2015.

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