Lok Sabha Question No. 6240 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-04-05
Subject: Rural Development Schemes in Tribal Areas
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 6240

TO BE ANSWERED ON 05.04.2018

## RURAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES IN TRIBAL AREAS

## 6240.   SHRI RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY: SHRIMATI REKHA VERMA:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the various rural development schemes being implemented by the Union Government in various tribal areas of Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh;
- (b) the details of the funds allocated for the same, Scheme-wise;
- (c) whether  the  Union  Government  proposes  to  provide  ownership  rights  to  the  tribal people living in forest land in rural areas of Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether  the Union  Government  proposes  to  construct  roads  and  create other infrastructural facilities in the said areas; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV)

(a)  to  (b):    The  Ministry  of  Rural  Development,  inter  alia,  is  implementing  Mahatma  Gandhi National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee  Act  (MGNREGA),  Deendayal  Antyodaya  Yojana  National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM), Deen Dayal Upadhyay - Gramin Kaushalya Yojana  (DDU-GKY),    Pradhan  Mantri  Awaas  Yojana  -  Gramin  (PMAY-G),  Pradhan  Mantri Gram  Sadak  Yojana  (PMGSY)  and  National  Social  Assistance  Programme  (NSAP)    to  bring about overall improvement in the quality of life of the people in rural areas including tribal areas of  Jharkhand  and  Uttar  Pradesh  through  employment  generation,  strengthening  of  livelihood opportunities, promoting self-employment, skilling of rural youths, provision of social assistance and other basic amenities. The total fund allocated to the State of Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh under different Rural Development Programmes are given as under:

(Rs. in crore)

|          |   Jharkhand |   Uttar Pradesh |
|----------|-------------|-----------------|
| MGNREGA* |     1352.64 |         3689.11 |
| PMAY-G   |     1245.47 |         2985.44 |
| PMGSY    |     1109    |         1769    |
| DAY-NRLM |       95.56 |          364.86 |

*Released amount as MGNREGA is demand driven programme,

(c): Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 recognize and vest the forest rights and occupation in forest land in forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers who have been residing in such forests for generations but whose rights could not be recorded; and to provide for a framework for recording the forest rights so vested and the nature of evidence required for such recognition and vesting in respect of forest land.

(d) & (e): Major rural development programmes implemented by the Ministry under which rural infrastructures  are  created  are  PMGSY,  PMAY-G  and  MGNREGA.  These  schemes  are  being implemented  across  the  rural  areas  of  the  country,  including  Jharkhand  and  Uttar  Pradesh. PMGSY is a one-time special intervention of Government to provide connectivity by way of a single  all-weather  road  with  necessary  culverts  and  cross  drainage  structures,  to  the  eligible unconnected habitations in the core network. The programme envisages connecting all eligible unconnected  habitations  with  a  population  of  500  persons  and  above  (as  per  2001  Census)  in plain  areas  and  250  persons  and  above  (as  per  2001  Census)  in  Special  Category  States (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim,Tripura Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand), Tribal (Schedule-V) areas, the Desert Areas (as identified  in Desert Development Programme) and in Selected Tribal and Backward Districts  (as  identified  by  the  Ministry  of  Home  Affairs/Planning  Commission).  For  most intensive  IAP  blocks,  as  identified  by  Ministry  of  Home  Affairs,  the  unconnected  habitations  with population 100 and above (as per 2001 Census) are eligible to be covered under PMGSY. PMGSY also permits upgradation (to prescribed standards) of existing rural roads in districts where all the eligible  habitations  of  the  designated  population  size  have  been  provided  all  weather  road connectivity.

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