Lok Sabha Question No. 1580 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-07-29
Subject: Action Plan for Poverty Alleviation
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Narayandas Ahirwar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1580 ANSWERED ON 29/07/2025

## ACTION PLAN FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION

1580. Shri NarayandasAhirwar:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Bundelkhand region is one of the poorest regions of the country;
- (b) the  details  of  schemes  implemented  to  eradicate  poverty  in Bundelkhand  region  along  with  the  actual  impact  thereof during the last five years;
- (c) whether the Government has proposed/implemented any special long term action plan to lift Bundelkhand region out of poverty regions; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN)

(a)  &  (b):  Ministry  of  Rural  Development  (MoRD)  is  implementing  a number of welfare schemes/programmes such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Pradhan MantriAwaasYojana-Gramin (PMAY-G), Pradhan Mantri Gram SadakYojana (PMGSY), DeendayalAntyodayaYojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM), DeenDayalUpadhyayaGrameenKaushalyaYojana (DDUGKY), Rural Self  Employment  Training  Institutes(RSETIs)  and  National  Social Assistance Programme(NSAP) for overall development of rural areas of the country including Bundelkhand region. These schemes/programmes  aim  to  alleviate  poverty  and  to  bring  about overall improvement in the quality of life of the people in rural areas of  the  country  by  strengthening  livelihood  opportunities,  providing minimum guaranteed employment, promoting self-employment, skilling  of  youths  in  various  useful  trades  and  entrepreneurship

qualities, infrastructure development and provision of social assistance.

The  above-mentioned  schemes/programmes  are  implemented through States/Union Territories. The impact of these schemes/programmes  in  the  Bundelkhand  region  (covering  the districts  of  Chitrakoot,  Banda,  Jhansi,  Jalaun,  Hamirpur,  Mahoba, Lalitpur in Uttar Pradesh, as well as Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh, Damoh, Sagar, Datia and Panna in Madhya Pradesh), wherever maintained, is as under:-

- i. Under MGNREGA, 27.89 crorepersondays have been generated during the last five years.
- ii. Under PMAY-G, a total of 5,19,819 houses have been constructed during the last five years.
- iii. Under PMGSY,  since the inception of the scheme  upto 24.07.2025,  a  total  of  15,428  km  of  road  length  has  been sanctioned, out of which 14,963 km has been completed .
- iv. Under DAY-NRLM, 2,88,627 Self Help Groups (SHGs) have been promoted and 33,39,728 Households have been mobilised from the financial year 2021-22 till 31 st  March, 2025.
- v. Under  DDU-GKY,  15,327  candidates  have  been  trained  and 10,818 have been placed during the last five years.
- vi. Under RSETI, 42,913 candidates have been trained and 31,331 have been settled during the last five years.
7. (c) & (d): This Ministry does not have any action plan specifically for  Bundelkhand  region.  However,  as  informed  by  NITI  Aayog,  in 2009, a special package for the Bundelkhand region was approved at  a  cost  of  Rs.7266  crore,  comprising  Rs.3506  crore  for  Uttar Pradesh  and  Rs.3760  crore  for  Madhya  Pradesh  for  a  period  of  3 years, starting from 2009-10. The Government further approved an Additional Central Assistance of Rs. 200 crores (Rs 100 crore each for  State  Governments  of  Uttar  Pradesh  and  Madhya  Pradesh)  to provide drinking water in Bundelkhand region on May 19, 2011.

Under  this package  various interventions like  Watershed Development, Construction of Surface Irrigation Project, Construction of Dug well and its energization, Construction of Stop Dams,  Afforestation,  Storage  and  Market  yards,  Distribution  of Goats and Bulls, Fodder Storage, Dairy Development, Drinking Water Supply,  Crops  and  Horticulture  Development  and  Marketing  etc. were adopted in all 7 districts of  Uttar Pradesh and 6 Districts of Madhya Pradesh of Bundelkhand Region.

Ministry of Finance provided the release amount under Bundelkhand package:

| Year of release                | Year of release                | Amount Released             | Amount Released             |
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
|                                | Madhya PradeshUttar Pradesh    | Madhya PradeshUttar Pradesh | Madhya PradeshUttar Pradesh |
| Release upto and of 11 th plan | Release upto and of 11 th plan | 1425.83                     | 1005.52                     |
| 2012-13                        | 2012-13                        | 455.23                      | 207.04                      |
| 2013-14                        | 2013-14                        | 350.01                      | 250.17                      |
| 2014-15                        | 2014-15                        | 0.00                        | 383.11                      |
| 2015-16                        | 2015-16                        | 405.58                      | 264.8399                    |
| 2016-17                        | 2016-17                        | 215.00                      | 80.00                       |
| 2017-18                        | 2017-18                        | 359.53                      | 917.20                      |
|                                |                                | 3211.18                     | 3107.8799                   |

The last release of money worth Rs.917.20 crore was made in the year 2018 to the Government of Uttar Pradesh. The released amount was to be utilized for two years, i.e. 2018-19 to 2019-20, to complete the ongoing projects under Bundelkhand package.

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