Lok Sabha Question No. 1258 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-02-09
Subject: Welfare Scheme
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Rajeshbhai Naranbhai Chudasama

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

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1258

ANSWERED ON 09.02.2021

## WELFARE SCHEME

## 1258.   SHRI RAJESHBHAI CHUDASAMA:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the eligibility criteria for all the welfare schemes under the Ministry and the documents required;
- (b) the welfare schemes under the Ministry which have a provision for online applications;
- (c) the action being taken by the Ministry to increase awareness, application and enrollment under these schemes; and
- (d) the steps being taken to create a digital infrastructure for the schemes which do not have a provision for online application given that internet penetration is increasing day by day?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

(a) The Ministry of Rural Development is implementing  a number of welfare schemes for rural areas  of  the  Country  viz.  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee  Scheme (Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS),  Deendayal  Antyodaya  Yojana  -  National  Rural  Livelihoods Mission  (DAY-NRLM),  Deen  Dayal  Upadhayay  -  Gramin  Kaushalya  Yojana  (DDU-GKY), Rural  Self  Employment  and  Training  Institutes  (RSETIs)  for  self-employment  for  poor  rural youth,  Pradhan  Mantri  AwaasYojana  -  Gramin  (PMAY-G),  Rural  Housing  Interest  Subsidy Scheme (RHISS). Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP), Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission (SPMRM) and Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana(SAGY) to bring about overall improvement in the quality of life of the people in rural  areas,  strengthening  of  livelihood  opportunities,  promoting  self-employment,  skilling  of rural youths, infrastructure development, provision of social assistance and other basic amenities and alleviation of poverty in rural areas of all the States.

The  eligibility  criteria  for  each  scheme  has  been  incorporated  in  their  respective guidelines  issued  in  this  regard  and  placed  in  the  Ministry's  website  for  general  information. The details of eligibility criteria of these schemes are under:

- (i) Under  Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGA,  which  is  a  demand  driven  wage  employment programme,  every  household,  residing  in  any  rural  area  is  entitled  to  a  Job  Card which contains the names and photographs of all adult members of the household so that they can demand and receive work under the scheme.
- (ii) The  target  group  for  DDU-GKY  are  poor  rural  youth  in  the  age  group  of  15-35. However, the  upper-age  limit  for  women  candidates,  and  candidates  belonging  to Particularly  Vulnerable  Tribal  Groups  (PVTGs),  Persons  with  Disabilities  (PwDs), Transgender  and  other  Special  Groups  like  rehabilitated  bonded  labour,  victims  of trafficking, manual scavengers, trans-genders, HIV positive persons, etc., shall be 45 years.
- (iii) The eligibility criteria for all the training programmes conducted at RSETIs are (a) Youth in the age group of 18-45 years, who are able to read and write, and (b) Having some basic skills and desirous of taking up    self-employment are eligible for RSETI training irrespective of social category, economic status and educational background.
- (iv) NSAP  is  a social security/social welfare programme  for below poverty line households  applicable  to  senior  citizens,  widows,  disabled  persons  and  bereaved families  on  death  of  primary  bread  winner.  Under  NSAP,  five  welfare  schemes, namely: a)  Indira  Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme(IGNOAPS), b) Indira Gandhi  National  Widow  Pension  Scheme(IGNWPS),  c)  Indira  Gandhi  National Disability  Pension  Scheme(IGNDPS),  d)  National  Family  Benefit  Scheme  and  e) Annapurna  Scheme  are  implemented  for  the  persons  belonging  to  Below  Poverty Line (BPL) households only.The eligibility criteria for these schemes are as under:
1. Indira  Gandhi  National  Old  Age  Pension  Scheme  (IGNOAPS): Under  the scheme, assistance is provided to person of 60 years and above and belonging to family living below poverty line.
2. Indira  Gandhi  National  Widow  Pension  Scheme  (IGNWPS): Under  the scheme Central assistance is provided to widows in the age-group of 40-79 years and belonging to family living below poverty line.
3. Indira  Gandhi  National  Disability  Pension  Scheme  (IGNDPS): Under  the scheme Central assistance is provided to persons aged 18-79 years with severe or multiple disabilities and belonging to family living below poverty line.
4. National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS): Under the scheme a BPL household is entitled to lump sum amount of money on the death of primary breadwinner aged between 18 and 59 years.
5. Annapurna: Under the  scheme,  10  kg  of  food  grains  per  month  are  provided free  of  cost  to  those  senior  citizens  who,  though  eligible  under  IGNOAPS, are not receiving pension under IGNOAPS.
- (v) Under  PMAY-G,  beneficiaries  are  identified  from  Socio  Economic  Caste  Census (SECC),  2011  data,  based  on  housing  deprivation  parameters,  exclusion  criteria prescribed and after due verification by Gram Sabha and following Appellate process. These  are  households  either  homeless  or  living  in  homes  upto  2  kachcha  rooms. Accordingly,  Gram  Panchayat-wise  Permanent  Wait  List  of  beneficiaries  has  been prepared.
- (vi) RHISS provides interest subsidy to eligible households who avail housing loans for construction or modification of house in rural areas. The universe of beneficiaries of

RHISS includes all rural households who are not featuring in the Permanent Wait List (PWL) of PMAY-G.

- (vii) As a part of the integrated development approach, the SPMRM mission covers the LPG provision  and  electrification  and  Skill  training  under  DDUGKY  to  the  house hold and beneficiaries under the convergence of the welfare schemes where all the eligibility criteria of the schemes remains the same.
- (viii) Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY):- PMGSY has objective of providing connectivity, by way of an all weather road to the eligible unconnected habitations in the Rural Areas with a population of 500 persons and above (Census 2001) in plain areas. In respect of special category States (i.e. Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya,  Mizoram,  Nagaland,  Sikkim,  Tripura,  Himachal  Pradesh,  Jammu  & Kashmir and Uttrakhand), the Desert areas (as identified in the Desert Development Programme), the Tribal (Schedule V) areas and selected tribal and  backward districts (as indentified by Ministry of Home Affairs and Planning Commission) the objective is to connect eligible unconnected Habitations with a population of 250 persons and above (Census 2001), for  most intensive  IAP blocks as indentified by  Ministry of Home Affairs the unconnected habitations with  population  100  and  above  (  as  per Census 2001) is eligible  to be covered under PMGSY.
- (ix) Deendayal Antodaya Yojna-National Rural  Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM)-The DAY-NRLM Mission  aims  to  reach  out  to  all  rural  poor  households  in  a  phased manner and impact their livelihood significantly by 2022-23. The target group under DAY-NRLM  is  determined  by  well  defined,  transparent  and  equitable  process  of participatory  identification  of  poor  (PIP)  anchored  by  the  members  of  the  target communities.  All households identified as poor through the PIP process, including households with at  least  one  deprivation,  as  per  the  Socio  Economic  Caste  Census (SECC)  2011  data,  are  presented  to  the  Gram  Sabha  for  vetting  and  subsequently approved by Gram Panchayat, and are eligible for all benefits under the programme.
- (x) Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna (SAGY): It is a holistic development of Gram Panchayat through convergence and implementation of existing Government Development and Programmes under the control of respective Ministries.

(b): There is provision for on-line application under schemes of DDU-GKY, RSETIs, NSAP and most of the schemes under SPMRM.

(c): Since  most  of  the  Schemes  are  implemented  in  collaboration  with  the  States/Union Territory Administrations, the Ministry has been  organizing  periodic  training/workshops/ Seminars  with officers and officials from the States/UTs including District/Block/Gram Panchayat level for capacity building of personnel at the local, State and National Level.

Further,  each  Scheme  has  separate  provision  for  promoting  awareness  among  the stakeholders, respective Information, Education and Communication (IEC) Activities viz. use of pamphlets,  leaflets, brochures,  hoarding  etc. are periodically undertaken  to  sensitize the beneficiaries.  Other than this, social and inter-personal communication mode is also extensively used  to  spread  awareness.  The  information  about  the  Schemes  is  also  disseminated  through electronic and print media.

(d) Each Scheme of this Ministry has their own on-line information and monitoring system. The Ministry launched District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) Dashboard on 11 th October, 2017 as a single source of information in respect of Schemes run by various  Ministries  which  aims  to  create  a  data  driven  governance  solution  for  planning, monitoring  and  evaluating  multiple  parameters  of  various  schemes  under  DISHA  monitoring system.  Most of the Schemes of Rural Development has been integrated on DISHA Dashboard.

Further,  the  Ministry,  with  the  support  of  the  National  Informatics  Centre  (NIC)  has designed, developed and implemented various IT driven solutions for its flagship programmes. A snapshot of the IT solutions that support the implementation and monitoring of rural development programmes, promote transparency and accountability is detailed at Annexure-I.

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## ANNEXURE-I

## REFERRED IN STATEMENT IN REPLY TO PART (d) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1258 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 09.02.2021 REGARDING 'WELFARE SCHEMES'

IT solutions that support the implementation and monitoring of Rural Development programmes

| Scheme s                              | MGNREGS                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | PMAY- G                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | PMGSY                                                           | NSAP                                                                             | DAY- NRLM                                                                                                                                                          | Rurban                                                | DDUG KY                                                                                 | SAGY                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
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| ICT Solution s includin g mobile apps | NREGASoft Geo MGNREGA, JanManrega App                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | AwaasSo ft, AwaasAp p, Awaas+                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Online Managem ent, Monitorin g and Accounti ng System (OMMAS ) | NSAP-MIS                                                                         | eGov NRLM (Comple te informat ion portal                                                                                                                           | RurbanSo ft                                           | Kaushal Panjee App                                                                      | Saanjhi portal                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Descript ion of the software solution | NREGASoft is a web enabled MIS, local language enabled end to end workflow based e- Governance system to capture all the activities under MGNREGA at Centre/State/District /Block and Panchayat level Janmanrega App helps in searching for Nearby Assets, based on User's Current Location and providing Feedback on Assets GeoMGNREGA App provides a GIS-Based dashboard for providing geo tagged details of assets | End to end Local language enabled workflow , web based electronic service delivery platform, ERP cum MIS facilitatin g e- governan ce in PMAY-G Handles all the critical function- identifica tion of beneficiar ies from SECC, fixing of targets, the release of funds, the issue of sanction | Web- based Monitorin g Tool                                     | Web-enabled transaction based implementation cum MIS for IGNOAPS,IGN WPS, IGNDPS | Web enable transacti on based eGov applicati on for monitori ng the activitie s under NRLM Also include: Bank Linkage App, CBO Transact ion System, MKSP, SVEP etc | NIC has created a web based supplicati on RURBAN soft | A web and mobile based App for connect ing rural youth with training partners and Banks | A web based applicati on that has modules such as Dashboa rd for Districts/ Panchay at level users, Sector wise VDP Progress Report, District Level data entry and Reports as required by Departm ent/ users |

| order to  the  beneficiar  y, the  monitorin  g of the  progress  stages of  the house  constructi  on by the  beneficiar  y, and the  release of  the  assistance  amount to  the  beneficiar  y, etc.   |
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