Lok Sabha Question No. 1455 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-12-12
Subject: Migration of People
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Nayab Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1455 ANSWERED ON 12/12/2023

## MIGRATION OF PEOPLE

## 1455. SHRI NAYAB SINGH:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has prepared any special scheme/plan to provide quality facilities to the rural population so as to check the increasing migration of people towards urban areas;
- (b) if so, the achievements made in this reagard so far; and
- (c) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

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

(a) to (c): Checking the migration of rural people towards  urban areas are sought to be addressed through multi-dimensional course of action such as provision of improved  infrastructural facilities, equitable dispersal of resources to remove regional disparities, employment generation, imparting of skills, encouraging entrepreneurial activity, undertaking land reforms, enhancing literacy, and providing easy access to financial assistance & credit facilities etc.

So  far  as  the  Ministry  of  Rural  Development  is  concerned,  it  is implementing various rural development schemes for creating employment  opportunities  and  rural  infrastructure.  All  these  measures encourage people to stay in rural  areas,  earn their  livelihood  and  raise their  quality  of  life  near  their  places  of  residence  and  hence  act  as  a deterrent to distress migration of rural population to cities. Some of the schemes that have a positive impact on reducing migration are:

- i. Under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS), guaranteed wage employment of 100 days in  a  financial  year  is  provided  to  a  rural  household  whose  adult members are willing to take up manual work. Further, an additional 50
2. days of wage employment is provided over and above 100 days in the notified  drought  affected  areas  or  natural  calamity  affected  areas  in the  country  on  recommendation  of  the  Ministry  of  Agriculture  and Farmers Welfare. Since inception, 4336.77 crore persondays have been generated (as on 08.12.2023) under this scheme.
- ii. Pradhan  Mantri  Gram  Sadak  Yojana  (PMGSY)  is  aimed  at  providing connectivity by way of single all-weather road to eligible unconnected habitations in rural areas so that these habitations can have access to basic health services, education and markets for their produce.  Under the scheme,  a total of 8,14,236 Kilometers of road has been sanctioned,  out  of  which  7,49,114  Kilometers  road  length  has  been completed.  Moreover, 99% habitation connectivity has been achieved under the scheme (as on 06.12.2023).
- iii. Pradhan  mantri  Awaas  Yojana-Gramin  (PMAY-G)  is  aimed  to  achieve the objective "Housing for All" by providing 2.95 Crore pucca houses by 2024,  with  basic  amenities  by  convergence  with  other  schemes,  like electricity, clean cooking gas, water connection and toilets etc., to all houseless households and households living in kutcha and dilapidated houses in rural areas. Out of these, more than 2.94 Crore houses have already  been  sanctioned  and  2.51  Crore  houses  have  already  been completed  (as  on  07.12.2023).   Employment  opportunities  are  also provided  in  convergence  with  Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS  by  providing 90/95  mandays  to  PMAY-G  beneficiaries.   In  addition  to  this,  2.46 lakh  rural people have been certified and trained as rural masons.
- iv. Department  of  Land  Resources  (DoLR)  was  implementing  Watershed Development  Component  of  the  Pradhan  Mantri  Krishi  Sinchayee Yojana (WDC-PMKSY) which is principally for development of rainfed/degraded  areas.   Under  WDC-PMKSY  1.0,  as  per  information received  from  the  State/UT,  since  2015-16  to  2021-22,  approximately 31.94  lakh  number  of  farmers  benefited.   Further,  about  388.66  lakh person-days  employment  generated  from  2018-19  to  2021-22.   Under WDC-PMKSY 2.0, 1149 projects have been sanctioned to States/UTs covering  an  area  of  50.55  lakh  hectare.  During  Financial Year  2022-23  and  2023-24  (till  1 st   Quarter),  approximately  4.30  lakh number  of farmers benefited and about 89.44 lakh person-days employment generated.
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