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Brief Background

1. Scheduled Castes (SCs), who constitute 16.6% of our population as per 2011 Census, have historically suffered social and educational disabilities and economic deprivation arising therefrom. Accordingly, special provisions have been enshrined in the Constitution for advancement of their interests. These provisions range from measures to remove any kind of social disabilities imposed on them to ensure equality of opportunity in every sphere, to measures of positive discrimination to bring them on par with rest of the population.

2. Article 46 of Part IV ("Directive Principles of State Policy") of the Constitution enjoins upon the State to promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people, in particular, of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. Article 38 (2) in the same Part also enjoins upon the State to minimize inequities in income, and to endeavor to eliminate inequalities in status, facilities and opportunities, not only amongst individuals but also amongst groups of people residing in different areas or engaged in different vocations.

3. The Government has hence taken a number of initiatives for development of SCs, which have yielded positive outcomes, and have also resulted in narrowing the gap between the Scheduled Castes and the rest of the population. However, the focus of most welfare Schemes of SCs has been mainly cantered on individual beneficiaries rather than on the integrated development of SC pockets.

4. To enable an area based development approach, a new scheme called the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) was launched on a Pilot basis during 2009-10, following the Finance Minister’s declaration in his Budget Speech delivered on 6.7.2009. The Scheme aims at integrated development of villages in which the population of Scheduled Castes is above 50%. A total of 1000 villages from Tamil Nadu (225), Rajasthan (225), Bihar (225), Himachal Pradesh (225) and Assam (100) were selected for the Pilot phase.

5. During 2014-15, PMAGY was further extended (Phase-I) to cover another 1500 villages across 11 States namely Andhra Pradesh (7), Assam (75), Chhattisgarh (175), Jharkhand (100), Haryana (12), Karnataka (201), Madhya Pradesh (327), Odisha (175), Punjab (162), Telangana (6) and Uttar Pradesh (260).

Expansion of the Scheme:

6. In light of the benefits accruing to the residents of the villages through successful implementation of the Scheme, it has been decided to take up more villages in the Phase-II. All those districts are considered which have villages having total population ≥500 and with more than 50% persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes. The villages in descending order of SC population are proposed to be selected from each such district for implementation of the Scheme in this new Phase. The Government of India is planning to cover all the eligible 26968 villages by the end of 2024-25.

Revision of Scheme Guidelines:

7. To ensure all round development of the selected villages, so that they can indeed become ‘Adarsh Grams’, the said Scheme has been recently revised to capture the Gaps in critical socio-economic ‘Monitorable Indicators’ as part of various sectors/domains. These domains include water and sanitation, education, health and nutrition, agricultural best practices etc. amongst others.

New Approach for implementation:

8. The identification of needs or Gaps with regard to the ‘Monitorable Indicators’ will be based on a Need Assessment exercise. The ‘Village Development Plan’ (VDP) will be based on the data collected as part of the Need Assessment exercise. The Scheme relies heavily on convergence with other initiatives of the Central and State Governments for ensuring that the minimum infrastructure and critical services are made available to all the persons in the village, especially those belonging to the Scheduled Castes. PMAGY will provide the platform for convergent implementation of other Schemes with the aim to achieve saturation in the various domains. Whereas it is expected that the major portion of the funds requirement for

implementation would be met from other Central or State Schemes, the ‘Gap-filling’ funds will be provided under the Scheme, for those areas which cannot be covered otherwise.

Funding under the Scheme:

9. For every new village selected, the Scheme provides for a total of Rs. 21 lakh of which Rs.20.00 lakh is for the ‘Gap-filling’ component and Rs.1.00 lakh is meant for ‘administrative expenses’ at the Centre, State, District and Village level in the ratio of 1:1:1:2. Initially, 50% of the admissible grant i.e. Rs.10.40 lakh per new village (including Rs. 10 lakh for ‘Gap-filling’ and Rs. 40, 000 for ‘administrative expenses’) will be released to the State Govt. either through PMAGY or through the infrastructure component of the Scheme of SCA to SCSP, or both. The remaining 50% of funds for the new villages would be released after due appraisal by the Central PMAGY Steering-cum-Monitoring Committee and only after reasonable physical and financial progress is achieved.

10. In addition to the newly selected villages, villages already implementing PMAGY in Phase-I will also receive an additional round of funding so that they are also able to achieve the desired goals for the socio- economic indicators now specified under the new Scheme Guidelines, provided they meet the revised eligibility criteria. For these villages, the Scheme provides for a total of Rs. 10 lakh of which Rs. 9.50 lakh is for the ‘Gap-filling’ component and Rs. 0.50 lakh is for ‘administrative expenses’ at the Centre, State, District and Village level in the ratio of 1:1:1:2.

11. Details of 'funding' and 'flow of fund' are explained at para-9 and 10 of the Scheme Guidelines. The State Government/UT Administration would initially release the funds to the District Administrations for, ‘administrative expenses’ i.e. for capacity building, awareness generation, preparation of the ‘Village Development Plans’ (VDPs) and initiating other non-cost based activities. The funds under the ‘Gap-filling’ component are to be released to the District Administration only after approval of the VDPs of the selected villages by the District PMAGY Convergence Committee and thereafter the District Administration can release funds to the Gram Panchayats or line departments for execution of the identified infrastructure works under VDP.

Project Monitoring:

12. The Scheme provides for setting up of various levels of Committees for guidance, monitoring and implementation. These Committees, especially the Convergence Committees at the Village, District and State levels, are crucial to the implementation as they would assess the requirements as well as plan and execute the works/services that are needed to be undertaken under various Schemes for the wholesome development of the villages.

13. Government of India has developed a well-defined structure for Planning, Implementation and Monitoring of the Scheme execution. A website with the facility of collection of Household level data, assessment of village needs, prioritising the works, preparing the Village Development Plan and periodic monitoring of the Scheme has been made operational. The web link of the site is http://pmagy.gov.in .

Selection of Villages under Phase-II of the Scheme and release of Fund:

14. The list of the villages selected during 2018-19 and 2019-20 for Scheme implementation are as under:

Sl No	State/UT	No of Eligible Villages	Villages already covered under Pilot Phase	Villages already covered during Phase-I	Villages selected under Phase-II		Remaining Eligible Villages
Sl No	State/UT	No of Eligible Villages	Villages already covered under Pilot Phase	Villages already covered during Phase-I	2018-19	2019-20	Remaining Eligible Villages
1	ANDHRA PRADESH	495	0	6	99	78	312
2	ASSAM	617	74	57	238	137	111
3	BIHAR	1456	128	0	348	268	712
4	CHHATTISGARH	769	0	127	128	105	409
5	GUJARAT	25	0	0	25	0	0
6	HARYANA	366	0	11	137	82	136
7	HIMACHAL PRADESH	417	60	0	90	88	179
8	J&K	261	0	0	71	190	0
9	JHARKHAND	720	0	96	129	94	401
10	KARNATAKA	1315	0	165	239	249	662
11	KERALA	1	0	0	1	0	0
12	MADHYA PRADESH	1146	0	124	333	281	408
13	MAHARASHTRA	277	0	0	145	62	70
14	MANIPUR	16	0	0	12	4	0
15	MEGHALAYA	4	0	0	4	0	0
16	ODISHA	994	0	131	192	196	475
17	PUDUCHERRY	10	0	0	10	0	0
18	PUNJAB	2097	0	152	161	211	1573
19	RAJASTHAN	1415	140	0	288	234	753
20	TAMIL NADU	2044	212	0	271	206	1355
21	TELANGANA	169	0	5	133	22	9
22	TRIPURA	31	0	0	31	0	0
23	UTTAR PRADESH	6394	0	221	675	665	4833
24	UTTARAKHAND	312	0	0	124	70	118
25	WEST BENGAL	5617	0	0	210	210	5197
TOTAL		26968	614	1095	4094	3452	17713

15. Fund Released under Phase-II of the Scheme (as on 31-10-2019):

Sl No	State/UT	Eligible Central Assistance (@Rs. 20.8 lakh for new and 9.9 lakh for Phase-I Villages)		Funds Released (2018-19: Rs. 10.4 Lakh per village for new villages and Rs. 9.9 lakh for Phase-I) (2019-20 as per details below
Sl No	State/UT	2018-19	2019-20	2018-19	2019-20	TOTAL
1	ANDHRA PRADESH	2098.8	1622.4	1069	695.4	1764.4
2	ASSAM	5296.9	2849.6	2475.2	904.6	3379.8
3	BIHAR	7238.4	5574.4	3619.2	2894.4	6513.6
4	CHHATTISGARH	2761.4	2184	1429.9	1134	2563.9
5	GUJARAT	520	0	260	0	260
6	HARYANA	2958.5	1705.6	1534	633.6	2167.6
7	HIMACHAL PRADESH	1872	1830.4	936	950.4	1886.4
8	J&K	1476.8	3952	738.4	2052	2790.4
9	JHARKHAND	3118.8	1955.2	1776.9	75.2	1852.1
10	KARNATAKA	5218.7	5179.2	2733	2478.2	5211.2
11	KERALA	20.8	0	10.4	0	10.4
12	MADHYA PRADESH	7589.7	5844.8	4126	3034.8	7160.8
13	MAHARASHTRA	3016	1289.6	1507.6	669.6	2177.2
14	MANIPUR	249.6	83.2	124.8	43.2	168
15	MEGHALAYA	83.2	0	41.6	0	41.6
16	ODISHA	4815.3	4076.8	2818	156.8	2974.8
17	PUDUCHERRY	208	0	104	0	104
18	PUNJAB	3913.1	4388.8	1674	2035.8	3709.8
19	RAJASTHAN	5990.4	4867.2	2995	2527.2	5522.2
20	TAMIL NADU	5636.8	4284.8	2819	2224.8	5043.8
21	TELANGANA	2815.9	457.6	1433	118.8	1551.8
22	TRIPURA	644.8	0	322	0	322
23	UTTAR PRADESH	14525.1	13832	7505	6710.35	14215.35
24	UTTARAKHAND	2579.2	1456	1289.6	756	2045.6
25	WEST BENGAL	4368	4368	0	0	0
TOTAL		89016.2	71801.6	43341.6	30095.15	73436.75

16. Progress of Pilot Phase

Sl	State	No. of selected villages	No of Works Approved	No of Works completed	No of Villages declared ‘Adarsh Gram’	Total Fund Released (Rs. In Cr.)
1	Assam	100			100	20.10
2	Bihar	225	3721	3162	225	45.225
3	Himachal Pradesh	225			44	45.255
4	Rajasthan	225	1334-61	1273	225	45.255
5	Tamil Nadu	225			225	45.225
TOTAL		1000			819

17. Phyical and Financial Progress during Phase-I of the Scheme :

Sl	State	No of Villages selected under Phase-I
Sl	State	By Dept.	Under Discretion	Redistributed	Total
1	Assam	75			75
2	Uttar Pradesh	200	10	50	260
3	Madhya Pradesh	200	77	50	327
4	Karnataka	200	1		201
5	Punjab	100	12	50	162
6	Odisha	100		75	175
7	Jharkhand	100			100
8	Chhattisgarh	100		75	175
9	Haryana		12		12
10	Andhra Pradesh		7		7
11	Telangana		6		6
TOTAL		1075	125	300	1500

Sl	State	Central Assistance Released (Rs. Cr)						Total
Sl	State	14-15	15-16	16-17	17-18	18-19	19-20
1	Assam			15.75		3.75		19.50
2	Uttar Pradesh	1.00	42.00	1.10	8.65	1.85		54.60
3	Madhya Pradesh	7.70	47.32	3.15	10.50			68.67
4	Karnataka	0.10	40.00	2.11				42.21
5	Punjab	18.70	3.50	1.32	16.10			39.62
6	Odisha		21.00	15.75			8.75	45.50
7	Jharkhand		21.00				5.00	26.00
8	Chhattisgarh		21.00	20.75	3.75			45.50
9	Haryana	1.20		1.32				2.52
10	Andhra Pradesh	0.70		0.77				1.47
11	Telangana	0.60		0.66				1.26
Total		30.00	195.82	62.68	39.00	5.60	13.75	346.85

Sl	State	Physical and Financial Progress
Sl	State	No of Villages	VDP Prepared	Works Appd.	Works completed	Works in Progress	Villages declared Adarsh Gram
1	Assam	75	68	58	0	58	0
2	Uttar Pradesh	260	210	775	13	367	140
3	Madhya Pradesh	327	251	2018	386	398	0
4	Karnataka	201	199	102	0	78	0
5	Punjab	162	105	677	101	557	0
6	Odisha	175	0	0	0	0	0
7	Jharkhand	100	100	1120	0	1120	0
8	Chhattisgarh	175	175	2025	62	1857	0
9	Haryana	12	9	18	2	16	0
10	Andhra Pradesh	7	0	0	0	0	0
11	Telangana	6	0	0	0	0	0
Total		1500	1117	6793	564	4451	140

18. Financial Year wise releases are given below (Rs. In Crore):

Year	Budget Estimate	Revised Estimate	Expenditure
Up to 2013-14	-	-	201.00
2014-15	30.00	30.00	30.00
2015-16	200.00	200.00	195.82
2016-17	90.00	50.00	62.68
2017-18	40.00	40.00	39.00
2018-19	70.00	140.00	167.876
2019-20	390.00	-	319.00