Lok Sabha Question No. 2818 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-08-06
Subject: Irrigation Facilities
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: VIJAY KUMAR HANSDAK

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO. 2818

TO BE ANSWERED  ON 06.08.20I5

## IRRIGATION  FACILITIES

## 2818. SHRI VIJAY KUMAR HANSDAK:

Will the Minisrer  of RURAL  DEVELOPMENT  be pleased  to state:

- (a) whether  Khet-Talab  (field-pond)  scheme  under the Mahatma Gandhi  National  Rural Emplolnnent  Guarantee  Scheme (MGNREGS)  has been implement"J  ,;  ;;;; inigation.  facilities  to people  living  rvithin ,fr" Uru"f.",  oigelow  poverty  Line (BpL) along with the beneficiaries  oflndira  Awaas  yojana;
- whether the Government  proposes  to extend  this scheme;  and (c)
- if so, the details thereof and the stares where iuch Khet-Talab  (field-pond)  Scheme has been implemented and the number ofbeneficiaries  of this schime; (b)
- rI so, the details  thereof? (d)

## MrNrsrER oF srArE rN rHE  #iXrtIr oF RURAL  DE'EL.,MENT (sHRr  SUDARSTTAN  BHAGAT)

(a)&(b): Yes' Madam. Khet  -Talab  (Fann  pond)  work is permitted under MGNREGA and it is being constructed  in many  States  depending  on their topography  & agro-crimatic conditions,  to provide  irrigation facilities.  It is permitted  on the land of beneficiaries mentioned at Para -5 of Schedule-I,  MGNREGA,  i.e. SC,  sr. nomadic  tribes, denotifietl tribes, other families  BpL, women-headed  householci. physicall,v  handicapped  headed households,  beneficiaries  of land reforms, the beneficiaries under ihe Indira Aawas  yojana, beneficiaries  under the ST  & other  Traditional  Forest Dwellers  (Recognition  of For.rt Rights) Act, 2006 and after exhausting the above categories  on iands of small farmers or marginal farmers  as defined in the Agriculture Debt waiver and Debt Relief scheme,  200g, subject to the condition  that sr.rch  households  shall  rrave  ajob card with at least one member willing to rvork on the project  undertaken  oD their lard or home.tead. StateAjT-wise  deta s of farm ponds  works sanctioned  to beneficiaries  under MGNREGA  since inception is given in Annexure.

(c)&(d): All the StatesA]Ts  have been advised  from time to time for creation or, productive assets.  The Ministry  has recently issued action  plan rbr collvergence  of Integrated watershed Management  programme  an<i Mahatma Gan< ri Nationat nurar Emptoi.:rnent Guarantee  Scheme  for achieving the goals  of  pradhan  Mantri  Krishi  Si,chai  yojana  by taking  up irrigation,  watershed, u,ater  harvesting/  conservation  works.

## Annexure referred in reply to part (a) & (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred  Question  No. 2818 dated 06.08.2015

## FARM POND on individual land since ince on as r MIS

| SI No   | States               | Works taken up   | Approved   | Ongoing   | Completed   |
|---------|----------------------|------------------|------------|-----------|-------------|
| 1       | ANDHRA PRADESFI      | 1841 6           | 16729      | 1640      | 47          |
| 2       | ARTINACHAL PRADESH   |                  | 1          | I         | 0           |
| 3       | ASSAM                | 576              | 55         | 449       | 72          |
| 4       | BIHAR                | 781s             | t634       | 3277      | 2964        |
| 5       | CHHATTISGARH         | 6476             | 25r        | 2564      | 3661        |
| 6       | GOA                  | 1                | I          | 2         | 0           |
| 7       | GUJARAT              | 8398             | 311        | s90       | 7497        |
| 8       | HARYANA              | 31               | 14         | 8         | 9           |
| 9       | HIMACHAL PRADESH     | 4i601            | 1137       | 9243      | 3122r       |
| 10      | JAMMU AND KASHMIR    | 83               | 1'7        | 20        | 46          |
| 11      | JHARKHAND            | 19'.723          | 782        | 1268      | r7613       |
| 1.2     | KARNATAKA            | 28350            | 2480       | 15325     | 10545       |
| 13      | KERALA               | 2591             | 226        | 893       | 1472        |
| 14      | MADHYA PR-{DESH      | 217396           | t2         | 19235     | 198149      |
| 15      | MAHARASHTRA          | 4562             | 563        | 1711      | 2288        |
| 16      | MANIPUR              | 5                | 0          | 5         | 0           |
| 17      | MEGFIALAYA           | 26               | 7          | 1         | 15          |
| 18      | MIZORAM              | 65               | 49         | 8         | 8           |
| 19      | NAGAI-AND            | l0               | 1          | 5         | 4           |
| 20      | ODISHA               | 94526            | 25736      | 12086     | 56104       |
| 21      | PL]NJAB              | 9                | )          | 0         | 4           |
| 22      | RAJASTHAN            | 14'7706          | 9601       | 44909     | 93196       |
| 23      | SIKKIM               | _)               | 0          | 1         | 2           |
| 24      | TAMILNADU            | 23805            | 410        | 3097      | 20298       |
| 25      | TELANGANA            | 995              | 922        | 69        | 4           |
| ZO      | .TRIPURA             | 284              | 7          | 30        | 247         |
| 27      | UTTAR PRADESH        | 23 83 83         | 34460      | 6409      | 197514      |
| 28      | UTTARAKHAND          | 61 1             | 10         | 25        | 576         |
| 29      | V/EST BENGAL         | 88057            | 9122       | 26319     | s26t6       |
| 30      | ANDAMAN ANDNICOBAR   |                  | 1          | 13        | ,a)         |
| 31      | DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI | 0                | 0          | 0         | 0           |
| 32      | DAMAN & DIU          | 0                | 0          | 0         | 0           |
| )-)     | LAKSHADWEEP          | 0                | 0          | 0         | 0           |
| 34      | PUDUCHERRY           | 0                | 0          | 0         | 0           |
|         | Total                | 950605           | 104544     | 149206    | 696855      |