Lok Sabha Question No. 176 (STARRED), answered on 2016-05-05
Subject: Funds under NRLM
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: JYOTI DHURVE, VIRENDRA  KUMAR

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPAERTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 176

TO BE ANSWERED ON 05.05.2016

## FUNDS UNDER NRLM

## *176.SHRIMATI JYOTI DHU RVE: DR. VIRENDRA KUMAR:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the  allocation  of  funds  along  with  criteria  adopted  for  such  allocations  und National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) during the last three years and the curr year;
- (b) whether the said allocation is sufficient to meet the laid down targets, if so, t in this regard; and
- (c) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  make the  mission  more  rationale  through mobilisation  of  poor  into  Self - Help  Groups  (SHGs)  and  promotion  of  the  livelihoods of the poor through appropriate technical and capital support?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI BIRENDER SINGH)

- (a)to(c ): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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- ( a) to (c) :The Government is implementing National Rural Livelihoods Mission, renamed as Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana -National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY -NRLM) across the country in a mission mode with the objective of organizing the rural poor women int Help Groups (SHGs), and continuously nurturing and supporting them till they attain appre increase in incomes over a period of time and improve their quality of life and come out o poverty. It aims to cover all the States and Union Territorie s (except Delhi and Chandigarh) and seeks to reach out to all rural poor women in a phased manner by the year 2024 - 25. The SHGs are given the requisite technical and financial support. The financial support given to under: -
- (i) Revolving Fund ( RF) is given to SHGs at the rate of Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 15,000 per SHG;
- (ii) Community Investment Fund (CIF) is allowed upto Rs. 2.50 lakh per SHG;
- (iii) Interest Subvention is allowed for a loan up to Rs. 3 lakh to all DAY - NRLM SHG.

Under DAY - NRLM , the fun ds allocated as per Budget Estimate (B.E.), Revised Estimate (R.E ) and fundsactually released during the last three years and the current financial year given below: -

(Rs. in crore)

|   Sl.No. | Year        |   B.E. | R.E.    |   Actual Release |
|----------|-------------|--------|---------|------------------|
|        2 | 2013- 14    |   4000 | 2600.00 |          1822.11 |
|        3 | 2014- 15*   |   4000 | 2186.42 |          2102.69 |
|        4 | 2015- 16**  |   2705 | 2705.00 |          2504.07 |
|        5 | 2016- 17*** |   3000 |         |           350.28 |

The criteria adopted for allocation of funds to States is as under: -

|   Sl.No. | Year     | Criteria adopted allocation of funds to States                                                                                                                  | for Name of States where applicable                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
|----------|----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | 2013- 14 | Inter - se p overty ratio among all states as determined by erstwhile Planning Commission                                                                       | the All States except Jammu & Kashmir . A special package was approved for to enablecover age of2/3 rd of their rural households and t he 2 nd Instalment during the year was released based on the package .                                                                                                              |
|        2 | 2014- 15 | a) Inter - se p overty ratio among all states as determined by erstwhile Planning Commission. b) On demand basis enablecover age of 2/3 of rural households .   | the to a) All States except Jammu & b) Jammu & Kashmir                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
|        3 | 2015- 16 | a) Inter - se p overty ratio among all states as determined by the erstwhile Planning Commission. b) On demand basis enablecover age of 2/3 of rural households | to a) All States except Jammu & and NE states. A special package approved for the NE states other than to enable coverage of 2/3 rd of their rural households and additional funds released during the year based on the package . b) Jammu & Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, & Tripura. |
|        4 | 2016- 17 | a) Inter - se p overty ratio among all states as determined by erstwhile Planning Commission. b) On demand basis enable coverage of of rural households         | the to 2/3 a) All States, except Jammu & Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, & Tripura. b) Jammu & Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, & Tripura.                                                                                                                |

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From the above statement relating to B.E., R.E. and actual release of funds , it is clear that availability of funds is not a constraint for theimplementation of  DAY - NRLM so far. However, during  the  meetings  of  the Empowered  Committee  (EC) of  MoRD  held  in  March,  2016  to consider and approve the Annual Action Plan s of all states under NRLM for the year 2016 - 17, some of the States expressed the need for higher allocatio n of funds on account of high level of mobilisation of rural poor women into their institutions under NRLM in all states and meet  the  expenses  for  further  expansion  of  the  programme  in  the  hitherto  uncovered  bl Depending upo n the performance o f each State, the Ministry may seek more funds at the time of Revised Estimate 2016 - 17 stage.

A statement indicating the physical progress of DAY -NRLM during the last three years is enclosed as Annexure I . The funds requirement in the first few years w as low because in the initial years the states were required to set up their State Rural Livelihoods Missions along with the necessary trained professionals at different levels and also put in place all system for  effective  programme  implementati on  l ke  the  Financial  Management  systems,  Monitoring systems etc.  All this took a lot of time and actual work of social mobilisation and i building  could  be  initiated  only  thereafter.  From  the  year  2015 - 16,  the  achievements  against targets have improved considerably.  Simultaneously, the fund requirement has also gone u During 2016 - 17, Rs. 3000 crore has been allocated for DAY - NRLM.

## Physical progress of DAY -NRLM

|          |                                  |                                  | Revolving Fund (RF)     | Revolving Fund (RF)   | Revolving Fund (RF)     | Revolving Fund (RF)      | Community Investment Fund (CIF)   | Community Investment Fund (CIF)   | Community Investment Fund (CIF)   | Community Investment Fund (CIF)   |
|----------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|-------------------------|-----------------------|-------------------------|--------------------------|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
| Year     | No. of Self Help Groups Promoted | No. of Self Help Groups Promoted | Target                  | Target                | Achievements            | Achievements             | Target                            | Target                            | Achievements                      | Achievements                      |
|          | Target                           | Achievement                      | No. of Self Help Groups | Amount in lakh        | No. of Self Help Groups | Amount Disbursed in lakh | No. of Self Help Groups           | Amount in lakh                    | No. of Self Help Groups           | Amount Disbursed in lakh          |
| 2013- 14 | 31342 7                          | 181931                           | 38330                   | 4500.50               | 66288                   | 9268.83                  | 18534                             | 6415.5                            | 16896                             | 9075.37                           |
| 2014- 15 | 27970 7                          | 187076                           | 133290                  | 19774.30              | 98309                   | 14011.63                 | 75814                             | 43631.9                           | 48920                             | 27843.19                          |
| 2015- 16 | 30308 6                          | 344412                           | 157874                  | 18093.80              | 158116                  | 22371.81                 | 188318                            | 88958.95                          | 112779                            | 46587.51                          |
| Total    | 89622 0                          | 713419                           | 329494                  | 42368.60              | 322713                  | 45652.27                 | 282666                            | 139006.3 5                        | 178595                            | 83506.08                          |

## Annexure - I