Lok Sabha Question No. 387 (STARRED), answered on 2018-03-22
Subject: Special Funds to Villages
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: BHAIRON PRASAD MISHRA

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

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 387

TO BE ANSWERED ON 22.03.2018

## SPECIAL FUNDS TO VILLAGES

## *387.   SHRI BHAIRON PRASAD MISHRA:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has formulated any scheme to provide special funds to the villages  for  concretising  the  lanes  of  villages  and  constructing  proper  drains  for drainage of water in them;
- (b) if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) if not, whether the Government proposes to formulate any such scheme?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

- (a) to (c): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

*****

## Statement in reply to Parts (a) to (c) of Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 387 for 22.03.2018.

(a)to(c):  The Government has not formulated any specific scheme to provide special funds  to  the  villages  for  concretising  the  lanes  of  villages  and  constructing  proper drains  for  drainage  of  water.  However,  under  the  Fourteenth  Finance  Commission (FFC), grants are devolved to Gram Panchayats for delivering basic services such as sanitation, sewerage, solid waste management, storm water drainage, roads, footpath etc. The total funds released under FFC to States during the years 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 are given at Annexure-I.

As  per  para  4(1)  IV  Category  D  (ii)  of  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, the following works relating to rural connectivity are permitted:

'Providing all weather rural road connectivity to unconnected villages and to connect  identified  rural  production  centre  to  the  existing  pucca  road  network;  and construction  of  pucca  internal  roads  or  streets  including  side  drains  and  culverts within a village'.

The  details  of  completed  Cement  Concrete  roads,  cross  drainage  structures, culverts,  interlocking  block  roads,  kharanja,  tiled  roads  and  village  drains  during 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 (as on 13.03.2018) are given at Annexure-II .

## Annexure-I referred in reply to parts (a)to(c) of Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 387 dated 22.03.2018

Release  of  Fourteenth  Finance  Commission  Grants  to  State  Governments  for  Rural  Bodies (RLBs) for the year 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 (as on 13.03.2018).

(Rs. in crore)

| Sl. No.   | States            | 2015-16        | 2016-17         | 2017-18         |
|-----------|-------------------|----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    | Release 928.41 | Release 1454.05 | Release 1675.88 |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh | 88.52          | 138.45          | 0               |
| 3         | Assam             | 584.8          | 511.1           | 0               |
| 4         | Bihar             | 2269.18        | 3142.08         | 3630.39         |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh      | 566.18         | 886.82          | 905.81          |
| 6         | Goa               | 14.44          | 22.62           | 0               |
| 7         | Gujarat           | 932.25         | 1460.18         | 1491.47         |
| 8         | Haryana           | 419.28         | 656.72          | 756.98          |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh  | 195.39         | 306.05          | 312.6           |
| 10        | Jammu &Kashmir    | 367.72         | 66.79           | 0               |
| 11        | Jharkhand         | 652.83         | 1022.53         | 1044.45         |
| 12        | Karnataka         | 972.36         | 1547.66         | 1580.179        |
| 13        | Kerala            | 433.76         | 679.39          | 693.96          |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh    | 1463.61        | 2292.46         | 2341.57         |
| 15        | Maharashtra       | 1623.32        | 2542.61         | 2597.1          |
| 16        | Manipur           | 22.25          | 34.84           | 17.795          |
| 17        | Odisha            | 955.52         | 1496.64         | 1528.71         |
| 18        | Punjab            | 441.7          | 386.04          | 0               |
| 19        | Rajasthan         | 1471.95        | 2305.52         | 2657.47         |
| 20        | Sikkim            | 16.04          | 25.11           | 16.125          |
| 21        | Tamil Nadu        | 947.65         | 1484.31         | 758.06          |
| 22        | Telangana         | 580.34         | 908.99          | 928.47          |
| 23        | Tripura           | 36.24          | 56.76           | 65.43           |
| 24        | Uttar Pradesh     | 3852.6         | 6034.33         | 3089.83         |
| 25        | Uttarakhand       | 203.26         | 318.37          | 325.19          |
| 26        | West Bengal       | 1470.86        | 2319.48         | 2369.18         |
|           | Total             | 21510.46       | 32099.9         | 28786.65        |

## Annexure-II referred in reply to parts (a)to(c) of Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 387 dated 22.03.2018

The details of CC roads, cross drainage structures, culverts, interlocking block roads, kharanja, tiled roads and village drains are as follows:

|   S. No. | Financial Year                |   Number of works completed |
|----------|-------------------------------|-----------------------------|
|        1 | Completed Works in 2015-2016  |                      134290 |
|        2 | Completed Works in 2016-2017  |                      153359 |
|        3 | Completed Works in 2017-2018* |                      118987 |