Lok Sabha Question No. 358 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-07-19
Subject: Poverty Alleviation
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shrikant Eknath Shinde, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Heena Vijaykumar Gavit, Sujay Radhakrishna Vikhepatil

## 358.

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

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 358 ANSWERED ON 19/07/2022

## POVERTY ALLEVIATION

## DR. SHRIKANT EKNATH SHINDE: SHRIMATI RITA BAHUGUNA JOSHI: DR. HEENA GAVIT: DR. SUJAY RADHAKRISHNA VIKHE PATIL:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a)   whether the Government has provided financial assistance to the States in order to deal with the problem of poverty;
- (b)  if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (c)   the details of the families living below poverty line, State-wise;
- (d)  the details of Centrally sponsored schemes introduced for poverty alleviation in the country;
- (e)   whether all the said programmes have achieved the targets set thereunder; and
- (f)  if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI)

(a) & (b)   Multi-pronged  strategies  are  being  taken  by  the  Ministry  of  Rural  Development  to address rural poverty and improve the economic well-being of the people in rural areas with the main focus on increasing livelihood opportunities, empowering rural women, providing social safety  net,  skilling  of  rural  youth,  infrastructure  development  etc  through  its  programmes viz. Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee  Scheme  (MGNREGS),  Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission(DAY-NRLM), Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gramin  Kaushalya  Yojana  (DDU-GKY),  Pradhan  Mantri  Awaas  Yojana  -  Gramin  (PMAYG),Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana(PMGSY), Shyama Prasad Mukherjee National Rurban Mission(SPMRM) and  National  Social  Assistance  Programme  (NSAP).The  Budget  allocation for implementation of major Rural Development Programmes in various States/UTs during the last two years and current year is at Annexure I .

(c) to (f)   After 2002 BPL Census, recognizing the multi-dimensional nature of poverty, Socio Economic  and  Caste  Census  2011  (SECC  2011)  was  conducted  in  association  with  the States/UTs. SECC-2011 provides data of households on various aspects of their socio-economic status viz., housing, land-holding/landlessness, educational status, status of women,  the differently  abled,  occupation,  possession  of  assets,  scheduled  caste/  scheduled  tribe  (SC/ST) households,  income,  etc.  The  beneficiaries  under  several  schemes  of  Government  of  India  as well as many  state governments are selected based on the (i)'automatically excluded households',(ii)'automatically  included  households'  and  (iii)  'deprived  households'  data  of SECC-2011.  The  State/Union  Territory-  wise  numbers  of  rural  households  in  these  three categories are given at Annexure-II.

The details of Centrally Sponsored Schemes of the Ministry of Rural Development for poverty alleviation are given below:

The  Pradhan  MantriAwaasYojana  -  Gramin  (PMAY-G) is  being  implemented  w.e.f. 01.04.2016  in  rural  areas  across  the  country  with  the  objective  to  provide  2.95  crore  houses under  the  programme.   The  PMAY-G  aims  to  provide  assistance  to  eligible  rural  households identification and selection of those households is not based on the concept of Below Poverty Line (BPL), but is rather based on the housing deprivation parameters and inclusion/exclusion criteria prescribed under Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC), 2011 and new survey Awaas+ 2018 conducted to identify eligible households left out of SECC 2011.   Under PMAY-G, a total target  2.70  crore  has  been  allocated  to  States/UTs,  2.43  crore  houses  have  been  sanctioned  to beneficiaries  by  States/UTs  and  1.87  crore  houses  have  completed  under  PMAY-G  as  on 8.7.2022.

Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) aims at mobilizing women from about 10 crore rural poor households into Self Help Groups (SHGs) and provide them long-term support such that they diversify their livelihoods, improve their incomes and  quality  of  life.  NRLM  target  group  includes  households  with  minimum  one  deprivation criteria and automatic included households from the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 database and the households identified through the process of participatory identification of the poor. As of June, 2022, a total of 6840 blocks were covered under intensive block strategy. More than 8.37 crore households mobilized into 76.94 lakh SHGs. The SHGs have federated into 4.47 lakh Village Organizations (VOs), which are in turn federated into 27,723 Cluster Level Federations (CLFs).

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) was launched in the year 2000 as a measure towards alleviation of poverty in rural areas by  providing access to basic services to the rural population by providing them good quality roads. PMGSY has helped in better access of market place for the rural masses and generate employments in various forms. Since inception till 13 th July, 2022, 7,93,567 km road length has been sanctioned with value of projects of Rs. 3,50,306 crore under various interventions/ verticals of PMGSY against which 7,12,190 km road length has been constructed at an expenditure of Rs. 2,79,337 crore (including state share).

Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee  Scheme  (Mahatma  Gandhi NREGS): is a demand driven wage employment program which provide for the enhancement of livelihood  security  of  the  households  in  rural  areas  of  the  country  by  providing  at  least  one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. It provides livelihood security, i.e. fall back options for livelihood for the rural households, when no better employment opportunity is available. During the current FY 2022-23(as on13.07.2022),112.56 crore person-days have been generated under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS.

There are two skill development programmes for rural poor youth under DAY-NRLM, namely, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya  Yojana(DDU-GKY) , and Rural Self Employment  Training  Institutes  (RSETIs) .  Both  these  schemes  are  aimed  at  increasing employability of rural poor youth either for wage or self-employment. During current FY 202223  (as  on  30.6.2022),  30291  and  83831  candidates  have  been  trained  under  DDU-GKY  and RSETIs respectively.

Under Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission (SPMRM) ,  the  Government  proposes  to develop 300 Rurban rural clusters in the country. SPMRM is intended for a holistic development of the selected clusters of villages. The scheme is aimed to achieve an integrated development, which effectively  reduce the poverty  by encouraging  cluster  growth. Out of 300 Rurban rural cluster,  299  has  been  approved.  DPRs  of  283  rural  cluster  has  been  approved  by  SLEC, Integrated Cluster Action Plans (ICAPs) have been approved for 291 clusters and 269 clusters have been notified as planning area.

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## Annexure-I referred in part (a) & (b) reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Q. No.358 for reply on 19.7.2022

(Rs. in crore)

|    | Centrally Sponsored Schemes                                         |   2020-21 RE |   2021-22 RE+Supplementary |   2022-23 BE |
|----|---------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------|----------------------------|--------------|
|  1 | Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) |    111500    |                   99117.5  |     73000    |
|  2 | National Rural Livelihood Mission- Aajeevika (NRLM)                 |      9210.04 |                   10813.9  |     13336.4  |
|  3 | Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana- Grameen (PMAY-G)                       |     19500    |                   30057.2  |     20000    |
|  4 | Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)                            |     13706.2  |                   14000    |     19000    |
|  5 | National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP)                         |     42617.2  |                    8730    |      9652.31 |
|  6 | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rurban Mission (SPMRM)                      |       372.33 |                     153.69 |       550    |

## Annexure-II referred in part (c) to (f) reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Q. No.358 for reply on 19.7.2022

## The State-wise result of SECC-2011(rural):

| States/UTs         |   Total Households |   Automatically Excluded Households |   Automatically Included Households |   Deprived Households |
|--------------------|--------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|-----------------------|
| JAMMU &KASHMIR     |            1601606 |                              761875 |                               13791 |                586345 |
| HIMACHAL PRADESH   |            1263756 |                              840852 |                                1938 |                259855 |
| PUNJAB             |            3269467 |                             2438567 |                                8004 |                778245 |
| CHANDIGARH         |              15657 |                                9250 |                                  10 |                  3925 |
| UTTARAKHAND        |            1479742 |                              823330 |                                4726 |                429888 |
| HARYANA            |            2969509 |                             1779954 |                                6519 |                997129 |
| NCT OF DELHI       |            1051097 |                              881667 |                                1127 |                 89744 |
| RAJASTHAN          |           10223073 |                             4069999 |                               72091 |               5165212 |
| UTTAR PRADESH      |           26015592 |                            12466832 |                               68190 |              10381355 |
| BIHAR              |           17829066 |                             4793001 |                               37657 |              10876054 |
| SIKKIM             |              88723 |                               39442 |                                 235 |                 33480 |
| ARUNACHAL PRADESH  |             201842 |                              118987 |                                3559 |                 72937 |
| NAGALAND           |             284310 |                               97323 |                                 969 |                182441 |
| MANIPUR            |             448163 |                              147003 |                                4963 |                236653 |
| MIZORAM            |             111626 |                               44437 |                                 512 |                 66499 |
| TRIPURA            |             697062 |                              165435 |                               33343 |                401458 |
| MEGHALAYA          |             485897 |                              151711 |                                1224 |                327506 |
| ASSAM              |            5743835 |                             1689138 |                               33451 |               2892859 |
| WEST BENGAL        |           15756750 |                             3302481 |                              203209 |              10056266 |
| JHARKHAND          |            5044234 |                             1566811 |                               52045 |               2694061 |
| ODISHA             |            8677615 |                             1628400 |                              119772 |               5730372 |
| CHHATTISGARH       |            4540999 |                              819609 |                              112084 |               3179327 |
| MADHYA PRADESH     |           11288946 |                             3301696 |                              396787 |               6748026 |
| GUJARAT            |            6920473 |                             3236193 |                               31216 |               2967972 |
| DAMANAND DIU       |              31795 |                               16707 |                                3519 |                  6313 |
| DADRA&NAGAR HAVELI |              45352 |                               15780 |                                 298 |                 25378 |
| MAHARASHTRA        |           13841960 |                             5440356 |                              227678 |               6064157 |
| ANDHRA PRADESH     |            9344180 |                             3595077 |                               59470 |               4822104 |
| TELANGANA          |            5643739 |                             3143322 |                               13543 |               2136159 |
| KARNATAKA          |            8048664 |                             4022702 |                               30074 |               2836539 |
| GOA                |             220731 |                              185010 |                                 135 |                 23816 |
| LAKSHADWEEP        |              10929 |                                9410 |                                  13 |                  1455 |
| KERALA             |            6319215 |                             4388457 |                               14289 |               1469167 |
| TAMILNADU          |           10088119 |                             4657981 |                               38549 |               4704939 |
| PUDUCHERRY         |             115249 |                               65854 |                                 311 |                 40336 |
| A&N ISLANDS        |              68481 |                               39354 |                                 168 |                 15976 |
| Total              |          179787454 |                            70754003 |                             1595469 |              87303948 |