Lok Sabha Question No. 708 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-07-21
Subject: Construction of Ponds in Rural Areas
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: CHINTAMANI MALVIYA

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO .708

TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.07 .201 6

## CONSTRUCTION OF PONDS IN RURAL AREAS

## 708. PROF. CHINTAMANI MALVIYA:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the  present  status  of  the  scheme  for  digging  ponds  in  view  of  the  drinkin situation and falling ground water level in rural areas of the country;
- (b) theState - wise details of ponds dug in various States; and
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  prepared  any  scheme  for  conservation  of  ponds drought affected areas in the country including Madhya Pradesh?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## ( SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV )

(a)&(b): In  current  financial  year  (FY  2016 - 17)  a  national  target  of  constructing 8,82,325 Farm  Ponds  under Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee  Act (MGNREGA) has been kept to harvest rain water. St /UT - wise details of the status of the work relating to the construction of Farm Ponds in the Financial Year 2016 - 17 (as on 18 - 072016) is given at Annexure.

- (c): States/UTs including Madhya Pradesh can take up the work relating to 'Renovation of trad itional  water  bodies  including  desilting  of  irrigation  tanks  and  othe bodies' under MGNREGA.

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## Annexure referred in reply to parts(a)&(b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 708 dated 21.07.2016.

## Farm Ponds works in FY 2016-17 (as on 18.07.2016)

| No.   | States             |   Ongoing |   Completed |
|-------|--------------------|-----------|-------------|
| 1     | 2                  |         3 |           4 |
| 1     | ANDHRAPRADESH      |    298125 |        3965 |
| 2     | ARUNACHAL PRADESH  |       246 |           0 |
| 3     | ASSAM              |      3129 |          21 |
| 4     | BIHAR              |      8144 |         599 |
| 5     | CHHATTISGARH       |     20961 |        1941 |
| 6     | GOA                |        10 |           0 |
| 7     | GUJARAT            |      5027 |         347 |
| 8     | HARYANA            |       354 |          11 |
| 9     | HIMACHAL PRADESH   |     10991 |        2269 |
| 10    | JAMMUAND KASHMIR   |      1467 |         116 |
| 11    | JHARKHAND          |    122592 |       12841 |
| 12    | KARNATAKA          |     52116 |        2938 |
| 13    | KERALA             |      1444 |         832 |
| 14    | MADHYAPRADESH      |     17953 |        4325 |
| 15    | MAHARASHTRA        |     27351 |        1490 |
| 16    | MANIPUR            |       286 |          27 |
| 17    | MEGHALAYA          |       543 |          22 |
| 18    | MIZORAM            |       506 |          57 |
| 19    | NAGALAND           |        27 |           0 |
| 20    | ODISHA             |     18406 |        5028 |
| 21    | PUNJAB             |        25 |           2 |
| 22    | RAJASTHAN          |     63642 |        1059 |
| 23    | SIKKIM             |         5 |           2 |
| 24    | TAMILNADU          |      1668 |         871 |
| 25    | TELANGANA          |     17191 |         302 |
| 26    | TRIPURA            |      1187 |         449 |
| 27    | UTTAR PRADESH      |     39928 |        1333 |
| 28    | UTTARAKHAND        |      3014 |          31 |
| 29    | WEST BENGAL        |     70212 |       14041 |
| 30    | ANDAMANANDNICOBAR  |         0 |           0 |
| 31    | DADRA &NAGARHAVELI |         0 |           0 |
| 32    | DAMAN&DIU          |         0 |           0 |
| 33    | LAKSHADWEEP        |         0 |           0 |
| 34    | PUDUCHERRY         |        10 |           0 |
|       | Total              |    786560 |       54919 |