Lok Sabha Question No. 1086 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-02-08
Subject: Rural Development Schemes in Tribal Areas
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: BHAVANA GAWALI (PATIL)

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1086

TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.02.2018

## RURAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES IN TRIBAL AREAS

## 1086.   SHRIMATI BHAVANA PUNDALIKRAO GAWALI PATIL:

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 Maharashtra;
- (b) the details of the funds allocated for the same, scheme-wise;
- (c) whether  the  Union  Government  proposes  to  give  ownership  rights  to  tribal  people living on the forest land in rural areas of Maharashtra and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether  the  Union  Government  has  decided  to  construct  roads  and  create  other infrastructure 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)  &  (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  Maharashtra  through  employment  generation, strengthening of livelihood opportunities, promoting self-employment, skilling of rural youths, provision of social assistance and other basic amenities. The Ministry has been earmarking funds towards Scheduled Tribe Component (STC) (erstwhile Tribal Sub Plan) under PMAY-G and DAY-NRLM.

Under PMAY-G 60% of the target allocated are being earmarked for SCs/STs subject to availability of eligible PMAY-G beneficiaries as per SECC 2011 through a saturation approach. The total fund allocated to the State of Maharashtra under PMAY-G for the year 2017-18 is Rs. 113019.38 lakh.

DAY-NRLM also ensures adequate coverage of vulnerable sections of the society such that at least 50% of  the  beneficiaries  are  members  of  the  Scheduled  Castes  and  Scheduled  Tribes,  keeping  in  view  the overall  target  of  100%  coverage  of  the  rural  poor  households  identified  through  SECC  and  through participatory processes of identification of poor households and approved by Gram Sabha. The total fund allocated to the State of Maharashtra under DAY-NRLM for the year 2017-18 is Rs. 15902.89 lakh.

(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 Maharashtra. 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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