Lok Sabha Question No. 46 (STARRED), answered on 2024-02-06
Subject: Funds for Fisheries under PMMSY
Ministry: FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING
Asked by: Navneet Ravi Rana, Ramesh Chander Kaushik

## MINISTRY OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES

## LOK SABHA

STARRED QUESTION NO. †46 TO BE ANSWERED ON 6 th  FEBRUARY, 2024

## Funds for Fisheries under PMMSY

- †46. SHRIMATI NAVNEET RAVI RANA: SHRI RAMESH CHANDER KAUSHIK:

Will  the  Minister  of FISHERIES,  ANIMAL  HUSBANDRY  AND  DAIRYING मत्स्यपालन , पशुपालन और डेयरी मंत्री be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of funds allocated for fisheries under Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) for ecologically sound and socially inclusive development of the fisheries sector in the States of Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand and Bihar particularly in Amravati, Sonipat, Singhbhum and Bhagalpur Parliamentary Constituencies respectively;
- (b) the  details  of  per  hectare  fish  productivity  in  the  above  States,  State-wise  and  Parliamentary Constituency-wise;
- (c) the  details  of  the  schemes  implemented  to  provide  social  and  financial  security  to  fishermen  in  the above States, State-wise and Parliamentary Constituency-wise; and
- (d) the details of funds allocated to the above States since inception of the said schemes, year-wise, Statewise and Parliamentary Constituency-wise?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING

(SHRI PARSHOTTAM RUPALA)

- (a) to (d): A Statement is placed on the Table of the House.

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Statement referred to in reply to the Lok Sabha Starred Question No. †46 put in by Shrimati Navneet Ravi Rana and Shri Ramesh Chander Kaushik, Members of Parliaments for answer on 6 th  February, 2024 regarding Funds for Fisheries under PMMSY.

(a) and (b):     The  Department  of  Fisheries,  Ministry  of  Fisheries,  Animal  Husbandry  and  Dairying,  is implementing Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) for ecologically sound, socially inclusive and holistic  development  of  fisheries  sector  in  all  the  States  and  Union  Territories    including  Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand and Bihar. Under PMMSY during the last three years and current financial year (till date), the Department of Fisheries has accorded approval of various developmental projects at a total outlay of Rs. 2763.17 crore with central share of Rs. 962.38 crore in these four States. The details of the projects approved for these States and particularly in Amravati, Sonipat, Singhbhum and Bhagalpur Parliamentary Constituencies are at  Annexure-I,  Table  1  &  2.  As  reported  by  the  afore-mentioned  States,  the  details  of  per  hectare  fish productivity  in  the  above  States,  State-wise  and  Parliamentary  Constituency-wise  are  given  at  Annexure-I, Table-3.

(c):       PMMSY inter alia has provision for Livelihood and Nutritional support for socio-economically backward active  traditional  fishers'families  for  conservation  of  fish  resources  during  fishing  ban/lean  period.  Under thiscomponent assistance is provided @Rs. 3000/- per fisher and beneficiaries' own contribution of Rs. 1500/- for three months during fishing ban/lean period. Government of Bihar and Government of Maharashtra  have availed the livelihood and nutritional support to fishers' families during the fishing ban/ lean period activity for 50,000 and 2,000 fishers respectively while Government of Jharkhand and Haryana  have not availed the assistance for this activity so far.

PMMSY also provides insurance coverage to fishers, which includes fish workers, fish farmers and any other categories of persons directly involved in fishing and fisheries related allied activities. The insurance coverage provided under the PMMSY includes (i) Rs.5,00,000/- against accidental death or permanent total disability, (ii) Rs.2,50,000/- for permanent partial disability and (iii) hospitalization expenses in the event of accident for a sum of Rs. 25,000/-.  The annual average number of fishers insured under the PMMSY in Bihar, Jharkhand, Haryana and Maharashtra are 1.50 lakh, 1.65 lakh, 1214 and 1.00739 lakh respectively.

In  addition,  to  facilitate  the  access  to  institution  credit  for  the  fisheries  sector,  in  the  year  2018-19, Government of India extended the facility of Kisan Credit Card (KCC) to fishers and fish farmers to meet their working  capital  requirements.  Further,  to  saturate  eligible  fishers  and  fish  farmers  with  the  KCC  facility, special  KCC campaigns were organized during Sagar  Parikrama  yatra  in  all  coastal  states  and  nation-wide campaigns  have  also  been  launched  in  association  with  State  Level  Bankers  Committee  (SLBC)  and Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India in all the States/ UTs. Till date, 1,82,903  KCC  cards  have  been  issued  to  fishers  and  fish  farmers  in  all  States/  UTs  with  loan  amount  of Rs.2068.57 crore. Further number of KCC cards sanctioned in Bihar, Jharkhand, Haryana and Maharashtra are 828, 2015, 193 and 12204 respectively.

Further, the Parliamentary Constituency-wise details of Livelihood and Nutritional support and Group Accident Insurance Scheme (GAIS) under PMMSY along with Kisan Credit Card (KCC), to provide social and financial security to fishermen are at Annexure-II.

(d): The Parliamentary Constituency-wise details of projects approved to the above States since inception of the PMMSY are furnished at Annexure- I, Table-1 & 2.

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Statement referred to reply to the Lok Sabha Starred Question No. †46 put in by Shrimati Navneet Ravi Rana  and  Shri  Ramesh  Chander  Kaushik,  Members  of  Parliament  for  answer  on  6 th   February,  2024 regarding Funds for Fisheries under PMMSY.

Table-1: The State-wise details of financial outlay approved under PMMSY by the above-mentioned States during the last three years and current year:

(Rs. in Lakh)

| Name of the States   | 2020-21      | 2020-21       | 2021-22      | 2021-22       | 2022-23      | 2022-23       | 2023-24(till date)   | 2023-24(till date)   | Total        | Total         |
|----------------------|--------------|---------------|--------------|---------------|--------------|---------------|----------------------|----------------------|--------------|---------------|
| Name of the States   | Project Cost | Central Share | Project Cost | Central Share | Project Cost | Central Share | Project Cost         | Central Share        | Project Cost | Central Share |
| Bihar                | 18333.00     | 5864.23       | 9016.50      | 2758.62       | 2780.00      | 809.59        | 21609.00             | 6294.27              | 51738.50     | 15726.71      |
| Jharkhand            | 10451.50     | 3237.00       | 12030.90     | 4009.87       | 8352.20      | 2900.74       | 9554.86              | 3416.39              | 40389.46     | 13564.00      |
| Haryana              | 6306.50      | 1807.56       | 9692.50      | 3065.61       | 12323.25     | 4090.02       | 43988.00             | 16084.70             | 72310.25     | 25047.89      |
| Maharashtra          | 17483.80     | 6063.06       | 33481.10     | 12916.00      | 60232.54     | 22616.64      | 681.40               | 303.24               | 111878.84    | 41898.94      |
| Total                | 52574.80     | 16971.85      | 64221.00     | 22750.10      | 83687.99     | 30416.99      | 75833.26             | 26098.60             | 276317.05    | 96237.54      |

Table-2: The  details  of  the  financial  outlay  allocated  to  Amravati,  Sonipat,  Singhbhum  and  Bhagalpur Parliamentary Constituencies are furnished below:

| Name of the           | 2020-21   |   2021-22 |   2022-23 |   2023-24 |   (Rs. in Lakh) Total Fund |
|-----------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|----------------------------|
| Bhagalpur, Bihar      | -         |   104.455 |     30.88 |     87.28 |                    222.615 |
| Singhbhumn, Jharkhand | 309.99    |  1086.25  |    473.55 |    674.55 |                   2544.34  |
| Sonipat, Haryana      | 341.19    |   221.9   |    739.84 |    461.85 |                   1764.78  |
| Amravati,Maharashtra  | 475.19    |   320.15  |    452.75 |      0    |                   1248.09  |

Table-3: The details of per hectare fish productivity in the above States, State-wise and Parliamentary Constituency-wise:

| Name of the States   |   Average fish productivity (Tons/ ha) | Name of the Parliamentary Constituencies in States   |   Average fish productivity (Tons/ ha) |
|----------------------|----------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
| Bihar                |                                   2.85 | Bhagalpur, Bihar                                     |                                   2.62 |
| Jharkhand            |                                   2.9  | Singhbhum, Jharkhand                                 |                                   2.9  |
| Haryana              |                                   9.7  | Sonipat, Haryana                                     |                                  11.9  |
| Maharashtra          |                                   3.55 | Amravati, Maharashtra                                |                                   6    |

## Annexure-II

Statement referred to reply to the Lok Sabha Starred Question No. †46 put in by Shrimati Navneet Ravi Rana and Shri Ramesh Chander Kaushik, Members of Parliament for answer on 6 th  February, 2024 regarding Funds for Fisheries under PMMSY.

(In Nos)

| States and its Parliamentary Constituency   | Group Accident Insurance Scheme (GAIS)   | Livelihood and Nutritional Support   | KCC            |
|---------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|----------------|
| 1,50,000                                    |                                          | 50,000                               | Bihar 828      |
| 4222                                        |                                          | 746                                  | Bhagalpur 4    |
| 1,65,000                                    | 0                                        |                                      | Jharkhand 2015 |
| 16020                                       |                                          | 0                                    | Singhbhum 12   |
| 1214                                        |                                          | 0                                    | Haryana 193    |
| 278                                         |                                          | 0                                    | Sonipat 18     |
| Maharashtra                                 | 1.00739                                  | 2000                                 | 12204          |
| Amravati                                    | 1616                                     | 0                                    | 588            |

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