Lok Sabha Question No. 877 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-07-25
Subject: IAY and MGNREGS in Bihar
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 877 ANSWERED ON 25/07/2023

## IAY AND MGNREGS IN BIHAR

## 877.  SHRI RAJIV RANJAN SINGH ALIAS LALAN SINGH:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the funds allocated and released under Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) renamed as Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAYG) in Bihar during each of the last five years;
- (b) whether the Government is discriminating in the said yojana and if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) the details of funds released to Bihar under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) during the said period?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) Under  Pradhan  Mantri  Awaas  Yojana-  Gramin  (PMAY-G),   a total of Rs. 26,615.65 Crore has been released as Central share and state  has  incurred  expenditure  of  Rs.  41,545.80  crore   (including State  share) during  the  last  5  years.  The year-wise  details  are  as under:

(in crore)

| 2018-19                | 2018-19        | 2019-20                | 2019-20        | 2020-21                | 2020-21        | 2021-22                | 2021-22        | 2022-23                | 2022-23        |
|------------------------|----------------|------------------------|----------------|------------------------|----------------|------------------------|----------------|------------------------|----------------|
| Central Share released | Funds utilized | Central Share released | Funds utilized | Central Share released | Funds utilized | Central Share released | Funds utilized | Central Share released | Funds utilized |
| 4449.32                | 5602.95        | 4902.97                | 8265.94        | 6683.93                | 10004.40       | 3082.22                | 5954.44        | 7497.21                | 11718.07       |

(b) No,  Sir.  The  targets  under  PMAY-G  are  set  annually  on  the basis of availability of eligible beneficiaries,  achievements  of targets  allocated  during  the  preceding  years  and  proposal  of  the State/UT.  After  allocation  of  annual  targets,  further  distribution  of targets  among  the  beneficiaries  in  various  districts/blocks/villages is  done  by  the  States/UTs  on  the  basis  of  eligible  number  of beneficiaries  in  the  Permanent  Wait  List  (PWL).  The  Ministry  has already  allocated  full  and  final  target  of  37,03,355  houses  to  the state  of  Bihar,  including  10,03,148  from  the  finalized  Awaas+  list. Out of this, 37,03,024 houses have been sanctioned to the beneficiaries by the state and 36,12,664 houses have been completed.

(c) The  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee Scheme  (Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS)  is  a  demand  driven  wage employment  Scheme  which  provides 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.

The details of funds released to the State of Bihar under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS in the last five financial years are given below:

| Financial Year   |   Funds released (Rs. in crore) |
|------------------|---------------------------------|
| 2018-19          |                            2819 |
| 2019-20          |                            3251 |
| 2020-21          |                            7284 |
| 2021-22          |                            5407 |
| 2022-23          |                            6395 |

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