Ministry of Rural Development: Government Schemes | Indian Economy for UPSC CSE PDF Download

Objective 

Intended beneficiary 

Salient features 

 To develop three Adarsh grams (model villages) by march 2019, by each mp, of which one would be achieved by 2016.

 Thereafter, five such Adarsh grams (one per year) will be selected and developed by 2024.

 Villagers of adarsh grams/ Model villages in particular

 And all the rural populace in general.

 Members of parliament (mps) are the pivots this scheme will run on. Gram Panchayat would be the basic unit for development. It will have a population of 3000-5000 in plain areas and 1000-3000 in hilly, tribal and difficult areas.

 The MP will identify one gram Panchayat to be taken up immediately, and two others to be taken up a little later.

 Inspired by the principles and values of Mahatma Gandhi, the scheme places equal stress on :

o Nurturing values of national pride, patriotism,

o Community spirit, self-confidence and on

o Developing infrastructure.

 SAANJHI aims at instilling certain values, such as

o People’s participation,

o Antyodaya,

o gender equality, dignity of women,

o Social justice, spirit of community service,

o Cleanliness, eco-friendliness, maintaining ecological balance,

o Peace and harmony, mutual cooperation,

o Self-reliance, local self-government,

o Transparency and accountability in public life, etc. In the villages and their people so that they get transformed into models for others. 

 The scheme will be implemented through a village development plan that would be prepared for every identified gram Panchayat

Objective 

Intended beneficiary 

Salient features 

 To address regional imbalances in development, by way of providing financial resources for supplementing and converging existing developmental inflows into the identified backward districts, so as to:

 Bridge critical gaps in local infrastructure

 Strengthen, to this end, Panchayat and municipality level governance with more appropriate capacity building, to facilitate participatory planning, decision making, implementation and monitoring, to reflect local felt needs,

 Backward villages

 Panchayati raj institutions

 BRGF development grants

§ No central funding stream is as ‘untied’ as the BRGF - the funds can be applied to any preference of the Panchayat/ municipality, so long as it fills a development gap

 Major shift in approach from top-down plans to participative plans prepared from the grassroots level upwards.

 The guidelines of the programme entrust the central role in planning and implementation of the programme to Panchayats in rural areas, municipalities in urban areas and district planning committees

 BRGF capacity building grants: no other programme spends as much funds, nearly 11 percent of the total allocation, for capacity building and staff provisioning.

Objective 

Intended beneficiary 

Salient features 

 To create an ecosystem for rural population to be able start their own enterprises for sustainable livelihood

 Foster 1.82 lakhs entrepreneurs over a period of four years, in 40 blocks across 14 states.

 Rural entrepreneurs

 This programme is worth an estimated $72 mn (inr 484 cr.).

 To be launched on the lines of the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Grameen Kaushal Yojana

 Generate livelihood through self-employment

 Will be a sub scheme under the national rural livelihood mission

 Loans will be made available through Self Help Groups for starting the enterprise

Objective 

Intended beneficiary 

Salient features 

 Provide all weather road connectivity in rural areas of the country

 All habitations with a population of 500 persons and above in the plain areas and 250 persons and above in hill states, the tribal and the desert areas

 A fully funded centrally sponsored scheme

 Launched on 25 December, 2000

 75 paise per liter has been earmarked for this scheme out of cess levied on high speed diesel

 Up gradation work is not central to the scheme

 The unit for this program is habitation and not revenue village

Objective 

Intended beneficiary 

Salient features 

 Aim of Indira Awaas Yojana is to provide financial assistance to the rural poor living below the poverty line (BPL) for construction of a house

 Bpl rural households of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, non-scheduled castes & non-scheduled tribes, ex-servicemen of the armed & paramilitary forces killed in action, physically & mentally challenged persons, freed bonded laborers & minorities are eligible to get assistance under indira awaas Yojana.

 In June, 1985 Indira Awaas Yojana was launched as a sub scheme of RLEGP

 Indira awaas Yojana was made an independent scheme with effect from 1st January, 1996

 Funding of IAY is shared between the centre & state in the ratio of 75:25. In case of uts, entire fund of iay is provided by the centre

 Rs.35,000/- per unit for the plain areas & Rs.38,500/- for the hilly/difficult areas

 The assistance for up gradation of unserviceable kutcha house to pucca/semi pucca house is Rs.15,000/- for all areas

 The assistance for credit-cum-subsidy scheme is also Rs.12,500/- per unit

Objective 

Intended beneficiary 

Salient features 

 Aims to spur social, economic and infrastructure development in rural areas by developing a cluster of 300 smart villages by 2019-20 across the country

 Providing citizen service centres- for electronic delivery of citizen centric services and e-gram connectivity, public transport, LPG gas connections, agro processing, agri services including storage and warehousing, sanitation, provision of piped water supply, solid and liquid waste management and upgrading education facilities.

 Coastal and plain villages having a population of about 25000 to 50000

 Hilly, desert or tribal areas with a population of 5000 to 15000

 Shyama prasad mukherjee rurban mission (SPMRM) a successor of PURA.

 SPMRM was announced in the union budget 2014-15

 Smart village is an area which possesses the economic characteristics and lifestyles of an urban area while retaining its essential rural area features

 It is a cluster based approach

 State Governments would identify ‘clusters’

 These clusters would be developed by provisioning of economic activities, developing skills & local entrepreneurship and providing infrastructure amenities.

 The Rurban Mission will thus develop a cluster of Smart Villages.

 The scheme will function with 14 mandatory components to ensure an optimum level of development of a cluster, which include skill development training linked to economic activities, digital literacy, fully equipped mobile health unit and inter-village road connectivity.

 The funding for rurban clusters will be through various schemes of the government converged into the cluster, while preferred mode is PPP.

Objective 

Intended beneficiary 

Salient features 

 To enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

 Rural population

 Unskilled manual labourers

 Seasonal unemployed

 At the statutory minimum wages.

 Strong social safety net for the vulnerable groups

 Sustainable development of an agricultural economy-employment on works that address drought, deforestation and soil erosion, water and soil conservation, afforestation and land development works

 A 60:40 wage and material ratio has to be maintained. No contractors and machinery is allowed

 The central government bears the 100 percent wage cost of unskilled manual labour and 75 percent of the material cost including the wages of skilled and semi-skilled workers

 At least one-third beneficiaries shall be women

 Social audit has to be done by the gram sabha.

Objective 

Intended beneficiary 

Salient features 

 To bridge the skill gap that prevents India’s rural poor from competing in the modern market, such as the lack of formal education and marketable skills.

 Rural Youth:15 - 35 Yrs

 SC/ST/Women/PCTG/PWD: upto 45 Yrs

 Enable Poor and Marginalized to Access Benefits

 Demand led skill training at no cost to the rural poor

o Inclusive Program Design

o Shifting Emphasis from Training to Career Progression job retention

o Proactive Approach to Build Placement Partnerships

 Regional Focus 

o Greater emphasis on projects for poor rural youth in Jammu and Kashmir (HIMAYAT),

o The North-East region and 27 Left-Wing Extremist (LWE) districts (ROSHINI)

 3-tier implementation model. 

o The DDU-GKY National Unit at MoRD functions as the policy-making, technical support and facilitation agency.

o The DDU-GKY State Missions provide implementation support; and

o the Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs) implement the programme through skilling and placement projects