BHARAT NIRMAN Through RURAL DEVELOPMENT
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2007-2008 henever you are in doubt ..... apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you Wcontemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? ..... then you will find your doubt and your self melting away. ........ M.K.Gandhi BHARAT NIRMAN through RURAL DEVELOPMENT Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India 5 1 5 9 4 0 0 1 8 9 . d t L . t v P s s e r P a b i V : t a NREGA d e t ARWSP IAY PMGSY Hariyali n SGSY TSC i r P Assistance for the Aged GANDHI - GAON - GARIB NATIONAL SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME Contents An Overview...............................................................................................................................................i DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT 1. National Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes (NREGS) ...................................................3 2. Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY)................................................................................16 3. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)...............................................................................22 4. Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY)...............................................................................................................35 5. Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY).................................................................................40 6. Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA)......................................................................54 7. The National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) ....................................................................55 8. The District Rural Development Agency (DRDA)..........................................................................58 9. The Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART)............................62 10. Empowerment of Women.............................................................................................................65 11. Scheduled Caste Sub-plan And Tribal Sub Plan................................................................................70 12. Disability Sector..............................................................................................................................72 13. Monitoring and Evaluation..............................................................................................................74 14. e-Governace ................................................................................................................................86 15. Training........................................................................................................................................92 16. Rural Development Activities in the North Eastern Region...........................................................99 17. Information, Education and Communication..................................................................................108 18. Organisation...............................................................................................................................117 19. International Cooperation..........................................................................................................127 DEPARTMENT OF LAND RESOURCES 20. Introduction................................................................................................................................133 21. Integrated Wastelands Development Programme (IWDP).........................................................140 22. Drought Prone Areas Programme (DPAP).................................................................................144 23. Desert Development Programme (DDP)....................................................................................152 24. Externally Aided Projects.............................................................................................................156 25. Other Schemes/Activities............................................................................................................162 26. Land Reforms..............................................................................................................................166 27. North-Eastern Region.................................................................................................................177 DEPARTMENT OF DRINKING WATER SUPPLY 28. Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme............................................................................181 29. Annexures..................................................................................................................................215 30. Acronyms...................................................................................................................................289 Ministry of Rural Development Annual Report 2007-08 iii Overview Even as the Indian economy surged ahead at and creation of employment. The Ministry of Rural an unprecedented 8 percent plus growth rate for Development continued to play a key role in this yet another year, the realization that this growth has strategy. A paradigm shift in the policy of rural to be of an inclusive nature meant renewed development has also taken place, with the rural importance for development of the rural areas of poor treated as resource who form an integral part the country. The four years of the United Progressive of the development strategy, and not as a burden. Alliance so far has seen the introduction of new The Ministry of Rural Development co-ordinates, programmes and restructuring of the existing ones implements and funds schemes which aim at to deal with the task of ensuring reduction of poverty, ensuring that the fruits of economic development Wage employment on demand under NREGA An Overview Annual Report 2007-08 v reach the villages, and the common man. Broadly, are undertaken in the areas of irrigation, road, rural the aims are: housing, rural water supply, rural electrification and Bridging the rural-urban divide. To ensure rural telecommunication connectivity. Three of the rapid and time bound development, budgetary goals of Bharat Nirman fall within the mandate of support for implementing the various rural the Ministry of Rural Development : rural development schemes has increased manifold connectivity, rural housing and rural water supply. in recent years. Specific targets are to be achieved under each of these goals so that there is accountability in the Guaranteeing wage employment and progress of this initiative. Bharat Nirman is viewed ensuring food security.This is sought to be as an effort to unlock rural India's growth potential achieved through the National Rural and to be a key for ushering a new era. It is also Employment Guarantee Act. expected that Bharat Nirman will lead to Making rural people the arbiters of their own considerable rural assets creation along with the destiny and to provide for their economic National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. Bharat uplift by self employment. For the Nirman however is a collective agenda in which development to be in consonance with the every Indian has a role either as a user or as a people's wishes and aspirations, emphasis is partner. The Ministry is committed to achieving the put on participation of people as also social targets of Bharat Nirman Components under its mobilization of rural poor through Self-Help purview within the prescribed time-frame. Groups and Panchayati Raj Institutions. The impetus for the development emanates Creating rural infrastructure for better from the 'National Common Minimum economic opportunities and growth. Programme' (NCMP) of the Government- the Connectivity is provided to all unconnected charter for governance which also spelts out ways habitations through Pradhan Mantri Gram and means for the well being of people across the Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). Village level country. Targets are fixed for meeting the minimum infrastructure is also created through works needs of the rural poor, in the areas of housing, undertaken under wage employment schemes. safe drinking water, modernizing rural infrastructure Ensuring dignified living. The Ministry etc. to ensure and enhance the welfare and well provides shelter, water and clean environment being of the vulnerable sections of Indian populace through schemes for rural housing, drinking in an objective manner. The NCMP lays special water and sanitation. attention to augmenting and modernizing rural Restoring lost or depleted productivity of infrastructure consisting of roads, irrigation, the land for better livelihood opportunities. electrification and marketing outlets. This ministry This is done through integrated watershed has been taking necessary steps to ensure that development programmes and initiating NCMP is fully implemented so as to provide much- effective land reform measures for providing needed support for the growth of the economy. land to the landless rural poor. 'National Rural Employment Guarantee Act' Under Bharat Nirman, developmental works 2005 (NREGA): This is a historic and unique vi Annual Report 2007-08 An Overview legislation reiterating government's commitment under the ambit of NREGA from 1st of April, 2008. towards livelihood security of people in rural areas. The Act guarantees 100 days of employment in a Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY: financial year to every household whose adult This