Lok Sabha Question No. 3872 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-01-03
Subject: Rural Schemes in Tribal Areas
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: BHAVANA GAWALI (PATIL), KRUPAL BALAJI TUMANE

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3872

TO BE ANSWERED ON 03.01.2019

## RURAL SCHEMES IN TRIBAL AREAS

## 3872.   SHRIMATI BHAVANA PUNDALIKRAO GAWALI PATIL: SHRI KRUPAL BALAJI TUMANE:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the  details  of  various  rural  development  schemes  being  implemented  in  several  tribal areas of Maharashtra along with the details of the funds allocated for the said purpose, Scheme-wise;
- (b) whether the Government proposes to accord ownership rights to the tribals residing in forest land of rural areas of Maharashtra;
- (c) if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether the Government has decided to construct roads and other infrastructural facilities in the said areas;
- (e) if so, the details thereof; and
- (f) if not, the reasons therefor?

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## ANSWER (SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV)

- (a): 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  (DDUGKY),  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 2018-19 is Rs. 51954.74 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. Under DAY-NRLM, 21% of the total funds is being earmarked to Scheduled Tribe Component.  The total  fund  allocated  to  the  State  of  Maharashtra  under  DAY-NRLM  for  the  year  2018-19  is  Rs. 22106.73 lakh.

(b) & (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) to (f): 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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