Lok Sabha Question No. 2646 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-12-01
Subject: Areas Covered under NRLMAajeevika
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: JYOTI DHURVE

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO .2646

TO BE ANSWERED ON 01.1 2.2016

## AREAS COVERED UNDER NRLM - AAJEEVIKA

## 2646. SHRIMATI JYOTI DHURVE:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  SC/ST  dominated  areas h ve  been  included  in  the  National  Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) - Aajeevika;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State/UTwise; and
- (c) the time by which the remaining areas are likel y to be covered under it, State/ UT -wise?

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

(a) to (c): The  Government  is  implementing  Deendayal  AntyodayaYojana -National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY -NRLM) across the country in a mission mode with the objective  of  organizing  the  rural  poor  women  into  Self  Help  Groups  (SHGs), continuously  nurturing  and  supporting  them  to  take  economic  activities  till  th attain appreciable increase in incomes over a period of time to improve their quality of come out of abject poverty. This objective is sought to be achieved by organizing one woma member from each rural poor household into Self Help Groups (SHGs ), their training and capacity building, facilitating their micro - livelihoods plans, and enabling them to implement their livelihoods plans through accessing financial resources from their own instit the  banks. Since  social  capital  generation  and building  capacities  of  the  implementation structures  of  the  States  missions  takes  time,  DAY - NRLM  has  adopted  a  phased implementation strategy to provide intensive support to the SHGs and their federati that the Mission reaches out 8 - 9 crore rural poor households to be organised into 70 - 75 lakh SHGs and their federations at the village and cluster level by 2024 - 25.It aims to cover all districts in all the States and Union Territories (except Delhi and Chandigarh). Under DAY NRLM,  all rural househ olds with at least one deprivation as per Socio Economic and Ca Census (SECC) 2011 data are considered DAY -NRLM targets group. In addition, any rural household  identified  as  poor  through  a  well - defined,  transparent  and  equitable  process  of Participatory Identification of Poor (PIP) at the level of the community and vetted Gram  Sabha  is  also  included  in  the  DAY - NRLM  target  group.  The  programme  is  under implementation in all States and 4 Union Territories, namely, Andaman & Nicobar Is Dadar an d Nagar Haveli, Lakshadweep and Puducherry. At present it is being implemen in 3231blocks of 488 districts. In the beginning of the programme district with mor population have been given priority in selection .A statement indicating State - wise co verage of districts and blocks is enclosed as Annexure I .

## A nnexure I referred in reply to part (a) to (c) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Quest 2646 for answer on 01.12.2016

No. of Districts and Blocks covered under DAY -NRLM (upto September, 2016)

| Sl No   | State            |   Districts |   Blocks |
|---------|------------------|-------------|----------|
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh   |          13 |      656 |
| 2       | Assam            |          27 |       63 |
| 3       | Bihar            |          38 |      534 |
| 4       | Chhatisgarh      |          20 |       39 |
| 5       | Gujarat          |          33 |      143 |
| 6       | Jharkhand        |          20 |       83 |
| 7       | Karnataka        |          25 |       84 |
| 8       | Kerala           |          14 |      152 |
| 9       | Madhya Pradesh   |          29 |      164 |
| 10      | Maharashtra      |          13 |       50 |
| 11      | Odisha           |          30 |      107 |
| 12      | Rajasthan        |          32 |      113 |
| 13      | Tamil Nadu       |          31 |      290 |
| 14      | Telangana        |           9 |      442 |
| 15      | Uttar Pradesh    |          31 |       78 |
| 16      | West Bengal      |          19 |       54 |
| 17      | Haryana          |          21 |       43 |
| 18      | Himachal Pradesh |          12 |       12 |
| 19      | Jammu & Kashmir  |          16 |       23 |
| 20      | Punjab           |          16 |       29 |
| 21      | Uttarakhand      |           6 |       15 |
| 22      | Arunachal        |           4 |        4 |
| 23      | Manipur          |           2 |        4 |
| 24      | Meghalaya        |           7 |        8 |
| 25      | Mizoram          |           6 |       10 |
| 26      | Nagaland         |           9 |       18 |
| 27      | Sikim            |           2 |        7 |
| 28      | Tripura          |           3 |        6 |
|         | Total:           |         488 |     3231 |