Lok Sabha Question No. 2444 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-13
Subject: Implementation of AIBP in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Shri Arun Kumar Sagar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI

## DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT & GANGA REJUVENATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2444

ANSWERED ON 13.03.2025

## IMPLEMENTATION OF AIBP IN SHAHJAHANPUR, UTTAR PRADESH

## †2444. SHRI ARUN KUMAR SAGAR:

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the work is being done under Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP) across the country, State/UT-wise especially in Shahjahanpur Parliamentary Constituency of Uttar Pradesh;

(b) if so, the details thereof particularly its current status in Shahjahanpur Parliamentary Constituency; and

(c) the details of the central funds allocated and utilised under this scheme during the last three years and the current year along with the number of beneficiaries, year-wise?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR JAL SHAKTI

( SHRI RAJ BHUSHAN CHOUDHARY )

(a)  &  (b) Accelerated  Irrigation  Benefits  Programme  is  one  of  the  component  of  umbrella  scheme Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojna (PMKSY). Ninety-Nine (99) ongoing Major/Medium Irrigation Projects  (MMI)  (and  7  phases)  were  identified  under  PMKSY-AIBP  during  2016-17,  in  consultation with  States,  to  be  completed  in  phases.  63  MMI  projects  have  been  reported  as  completed  under PMKSY-AIBP with creation of 25.80 lakh hectare of irrigation potential through these projects during 2016-24. Nine (09) new MMI/ERM projects have been included in the scheme since 2021-22. Irrigation potential of 0.31 lakh hectare has been created under these projects.

State-wise details  of  irrigation  potential  created  under PMKSY-AIBP  is  placed  at Annexure. No PMKSY-AIBP project benefits Shahjahanpur parliamentary constituency.

(c) Estimated number of target beneficiary under PMKSY-AIBP project is about 2,00,81,266 persons. The details of Central Assistance released under PMKSY-AIBP in the last three financial years (yearwise) is as under:

| Year                             | Central Assistance released (in Rs crore)   |
|----------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| 2024-25 (Current Financial year) | 692.22                                      |
| 2023-24                          | 1,317.81                                    |
| 2022-23                          | 668.60                                      |
| 2021-22                          | 2,188.57                                    |

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) & (b) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2444 TO BE ANSWERED IN LOK SABHA ON 13.03.2025 REGARDING 'WORK DONE UNDER AIBP IN SHAHJANPUR, UTTAR PRADESH'.

## State-wise details of irrigation potential created under PMKSY-AIBP

| S.No.   | State/UT             | Irrigation Potential created (in thousand hectare)   |
|---------|----------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh       | 24.33                                                |
| 2       | Assam                | 36.54                                                |
| 3       | Bihar                | 19.69                                                |
| 4       | Chhattisgarh         | 16.76                                                |
| 5       | Goa                  | 4.24                                                 |
| 6       | Gujarat              | 610.90                                               |
| 7       | Himachal Pradesh     | 0.66                                                 |
| 8       | Jharkhand            | 79.80                                                |
| 9       | Karnataka            | 115.86                                               |
| 10      | Kerala               | 2.58                                                 |
| 11      | Madhya Pradesh       | 182.94                                               |
| 12      | Maharashtra          | 385.82                                               |
| 13      | Manipur              | 24.45                                                |
| 14      | Odisha               | 87.44                                                |
| 15      | Punjab               | 34.99                                                |
| 16      | Rajasthan            | 16.38                                                |
| 17      | Tamil Nadu           | 5.23                                                 |
| 18      | Telangana            | 189.57                                               |
| 19      | Uttar Pradesh        | 766.92                                               |
| 20      | Uttarakhand          | 0.00                                                 |
| 21      | UT of Jammu &Kashmir | 6.52                                                 |
| 22      | UT of Ladakh         | 0.00                                                 |
|         | Total                | 2,611.62                                             |

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