Lok Sabha Question No. 4902 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-04-01
Subject: Centrally Sponsored Rural Employment Schemes
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Smt. Delkar Kalaben Mohanbhai

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4902 ANSWERED ON 01/04/2025

## CENTRALLY SPONSORED RURAL EMPLOYMENT SCHEMES

## 4902. SMT. DELKAR KALABEN MOHANBHAI:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the centrally sponsored rural  employment scheme  implemented in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Union Territroy;
- (b) the details of the funds allocated, in this regard during the last five years; and
- (c) the total number of beneficiaries getting assistance from rural employment schemes inDadra and Nagar Haveli, Union Territory during the last five years?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

(SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN)

(a)to (c): 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.   It  provides livelihood security, i.e. fall back options for livelihood for the rural households, when no better employment opportunity is available.

The  details  of  the  funds  released  and  person-days  generated under the Mahatma Gandhi NREGS in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli  for the last five financial years, from 2020-21 to 2024-25, are given below:

| Financial Years   | Central fund released to Dadra & Nagar Haveli (Rs. in crore)*   |   Persondays generated (In number)# |
|-------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
| 2020-21           | -                                                               |                              120121 |
| 2021-22           | -                                                               |                               10815 |
| 2022-23           | 1.62                                                            |                               21390 |
| 2023-24           | 2.21                                                            |                               72374 |
| 2024-25           | 9.02                                                            |                              293523 |

(* Source- NREGASoft)

(# Source- Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu)

National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) is a poverty alleviation  project  implemented  by  the Ministry  of  Rural Development. The primary objective is to promote self-employment and  organize  rural  poor  into  self-help  groups  (SHGs)  to  enhance their  livelihoods.  The  mission  aims  to  reach  out  to  all  rural  poor families and  link them  to  sustainable  livelihood  opportunities, improving their access to financial services and increasing household income through various sustainable livelihood enhancements.

As per the information shared by the Union Territory of Dadra and  Nagar  Haveli    details  of  the  financial  and  physical  progress under NRLM in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli for the last five financial years, from 2020-21 to 2024-25, are given below:

| Year     | Fund Received    | Available Fund   |   Expenditure |   No. of SHGs benefited Revolving Fund |   No. of SHGs benefited Community Investment Fund |   No. of VOs benefited Start-up Fund |
|----------|------------------|------------------|---------------|----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| 2020- 21 | 5610506          | 6881307          |       5610506 |                                    144 |                                                34 |                                    0 |
| 2021- 22 | 1000000011373800 |                  |       7019054 |                                    121 |                                                19 |                                    0 |
| 2022- 23 |                  | 1060000015448682 |      13992357 |                                    181 |                                                72 |                                   11 |
| 2023- 24 |                  | 1600000017110742 |      15730478 |                                    185 |                                                38 |                                    0 |
| 2024- 25 |                  | 1650000017883601 |      16537492 |                                    470 |                                                98 |                                   23 |

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