Lok Sabha Question No. 321 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-11-30
Subject: Implementation of National Rural Livelihood Mission
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Kripanath Mallah

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 321

ANSWERED ON 30/11/2021

## IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL RURAL LIVELIHOOD MISSION

## 321. SHRI KRIPANATH MALLAH:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the salient features of the National Rural Livelihood Mission;
- (b) the  details  of  the  funds  sanctioned,  allocated  and  utilized  under  this  scheme  within Assam so far;
- (c) the details of the target set and achievements made so far within Assam so far along with its response;
- (d) whether  the  Government  is  planning  to  train  Self-Help  Groups  (SHG)  to  contain spread of virus and uptake of COVID-19 vaccination among rural population within the country, if so, the details thereof;
- (e) whether the Government has set up SAKSHAM Centres under this mission within the country; and
- (f) if so, the number of centres set up in Assam, district wise along with its response?

## ANSWER

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

- a) Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) is  a  programme for providing livelihoods for rural poor women by organizing them into Self Help Groups (SHGs) and facilitating them to access credit from Banks and also  in  taking  up  various  livelihoods  activities  for  enhancing  their  incomes.  The programme is being implemented in all the States and Union Territories, except Delhi and Chandigarh.

The salient features of the DAY-NRLM are as follows:

- i. Promotion of Sustainable Institutions of the poor
- ii. Ensuring access to financial services
- iii. Promote diversified livelihoods opportunities for the poor, in farm and non- farm sectors.
- iv. Promotion of Skill Development and Access to Jobs
- v. Promotion of Social Inclusion and Human Development

As of 31 st October 2021, the Mission is being implemented in 6768 blocks in  706  districts  across  all  29  States  and  5  Union  Territories    cumulatively, 7.95  crore women have been mobilized into more than 72.62 lakh SHGs.

- b) The details of the funds allocated, released and utilized under DAY- NRLM within Assam so far are given at Annexure -I.
- c) The details of the target set and achievements made so far within Assam under DAYNRLM so far along with its response are given at Annexure- II.
- d) The Ministry has conducted two rounds of training for the Self-Help Groups (SHG) members on prevention, precaution and related measures for dealing with COVID-19. The first round of trainings was conducted in June - August 2020 focusing on COVID appropriate behaviors and about 5.10 Crore SHG members were trained in it.

The focus of second round of the trainings conducted during April-June, 2021 was on management  of  mild  and  asymptomatic  COVID  cases  at  home,  promotion  of  health seeking  behavior  and  immunity  building  measures  and  to  encourage  COVID-19 vaccination among rural population.  About 5.57 Crore SHG members were trained in this round. State Missions under the DAY-NRLM are being continuously encouraged to mobilize SHG members for COVID-19 vaccination.

- e) Yes Sir.
- f) In  Assam,  10  SAKSHAM Centers have been launched.  District-wise  details  are  as under:

|   Sl. No. | District Name   |   No. of SAKSHAM Centres |
|-----------|-----------------|--------------------------|
|         1 | DHEMAJI         |                        2 |
|         2 | GOLAGHAT        |                        2 |
|         3 | HAILAKANDI      |                        2 |
|         4 | NAGAON          |                        2 |
|         5 | TINSUKIA        |                        2 |

The main objective of the SAKSHAM center is to provide financial literacy & facilitate the delivery of financial services to SHG members and the rural poor.  These Centers are being managed by SHG Federations with the help of trained community resource persons.

## Annexure-I

## Details of the funds allocated, released and utilized under NRLM within Assam

(Rs. in lakh)

| Year                      |   Total Central Allocation |   Central Release |   Expenditure* |
|---------------------------|----------------------------|-------------------|----------------|
| 2013-14                   |                   18897    |           5329.93 |        6278.73 |
| 2014-15                   |                    7103    |              0    |        7997.2  |
| 2015-16                   |                    4588.89 |              0    |        9404.06 |
| 2016-17                   |                    7000    |           5884.57 |       11841.4  |
| 2017-18                   |                    9885    |           9595.1  |       16089.5  |
| 2018-19                   |                   17694    |          19618    |       19533.9  |
| 2019-20                   |                   20781.8  |          24015.6  |       24566.8  |
| 2020-21                   |                   21687.7  |          26004.7  |       26634    |
| 2021-22 (31 st Oct. 2021) |                   34298.7  |          17149.3  |       18343.3  |

## Details of the target set and achievements under DAY-NRLM  within Assam

## 1. Start-up Village Enterprise Programme (SVEP) Target and Achievements:

SVEP is approved in total 8 blocks in the State of Assam. SVEP was approved for 3 blocks in Assam in December, 2018 and DPRs were approved in July, 2019. After the DPR approval, project implementation started in these 3 blocks. The target and achievement from 2019-20 onwards is as follows -

| Years                     |   Targets |   Achievements |
|---------------------------|-----------|----------------|
| 2019-20                   |        75 |              0 |
| 2020-21                   |       624 |            548 |
| 2021-22 (till Oct. 2021 ) |      1643 |            979 |

SVEP AAP is approved in August, 2021 for 5 more blocks in Assam and DPR preparation is ongoing.

## 2.  Women  Farmers  Target  and  Achievement ( under  Mahila  Kisan  Sashaktikaran Pariyojna (MKSP) and the Annual Action Plan ) :

| Year                       | Target (no. of mahilakisans to be covered)   |   Year wise Achievements |   Cumulative Achievements |
|----------------------------|----------------------------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------------|
| 2013-14                    | 26900 ** (Two MKSP Projects)                 |                        0 |                         0 |
| 2014-15                    | 26900 ** (Two MKSP Projects)                 |                     4200 |                      4200 |
| 2015-16                    | 26900 ** (Two MKSP Projects)                 |                     9714 |                     13914 |
| 2016-17                    | 26900 ** (Two MKSP Projects)                 |                       86 |                     14000 |
| 2017-18                    | 26900 ** (Two MKSP Projects)                 |                      549 |                     14549 |
| 2018-19                    | 12500                                        |                    44646 |                     59195 |
| 2019-20                    | 49950                                        |                    34525 |                     93720 |
| 2020-21                    | 417360                                       |                   343235 |                    436955 |
| 2021-22 ( till Oct. 2021 ) | 350000                                       |                   183405 |                    620360 |

## 3. SHGs Target and Achievements:

| Year    | Social mobilisation of SHGs   | Social mobilisation of SHGs   | Total Number of SHGs provided Revolving Fund(RF)   | Total Number of SHGs provided Revolving Fund(RF)   | Total Number of SHGs provided Community Investment Fund (CIF)   | Total Number of SHGs provided Community Investment Fund (CIF)   | Households mobilised into SHGs   | Households mobilised into SHGs   |
|---------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|         | Target                        | Ach.                          | Target                                             | Ach.                                               | Target                                                          | Ach.                                                            | Target                           | Ach.                             |
| 2013-14 | 41986                         | 19534                         | 9930                                               | 8046                                               | 950                                                             | 868                                                             | 461843                           | 214870                           |

| 2014-15                   |   8450 |   10535 |   7895 |   15402 |   1760 |   4428 | 88378   |   114868 |
|---------------------------|--------|---------|--------|---------|--------|--------|---------|----------|
| 2015-16                   |  11305 |   13682 |  15600 |   13298 |   9150 |   8620 | 118238  |   142605 |
| 2016-17                   |  27634 |   20089 |  19620 |   21174 |   5250 |   9022 | 349908  |   222283 |
| 2017-18                   |  26520 |   43955 |  23100 |   30714 |  12000 |  13581 | 255328  |   413002 |
| 2018-19                   |  59978 |  104635 |  35826 |   31472 |  13418 |  11783 | 672430  |  1100692 |
| 2019-20                   |  39876 |   46683 |  30000 |   35889 |  21300 |  22332 | 418299  |   501094 |
| 2020-21                   |   2831 |   10306 |  10345 |   38498 |  20687 |  16952 | 31,144  |   110923 |
| 2021-22 (31 st Oct. 2021) |   6952 |    4387 |  15000 |   38778 |  22810 |  33216 | 74796   |    61858 |

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