A. 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. With a view to bring them in the mainstream by socially and to economically strengthen them, 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 endeavour 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. Since Independence, the Government had taken a number of initiatives for development of SCs, which had yielded positive outcomes, and had also resulted in narrowing the gap between the Scheduled Castes and rest of the population. However, the focus of most of the welfare Schemes of SCs had been mainly centred on individual beneficiaries, rather than on the integrated development of SC pockets.

 

B. Brief of the Scheme:

1. With a view to enable an area based development approach, a new scheme PradhanMantriAdarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) was launched during 2009-10. The Scheme aims at integrated development of Scheduled Castes majority villages.
2. Objective of Schemes: The principal objective of the Scheme is integrated development of SC majority Villages:

   (a) Primarily through convergent implementation of the relevant Central and State/UT Government Schemes; and

   (b) By taking up identified activities, which do not get covered under the existing Central and State Government Schemes, through ‘Gap-filling’ funds provided as Central Assistance to the extent of Rs.20.00 lakh per village.

3. The implementation of the Scheme was started on Pilot basis in 2009-10 and a total of 1000 villages was selected from 05 States namely Tamil Nadu (225), Rajasthan (225), Bihar (225), Himachal Pradesh (225) and Assam (100) were selected for this phase. All these 1000 villages have so far been declared as ‘Adarsh Gram’ by the respective State Governments.
4. 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). Out of 75 villages selected in Assam, 68 villages were found eligible and out of 12 villages selected in Haryana, only 09 villages found eligible for implementation of scheme. So far, a total of 1229 villages have been declared as "Adarsh Gram" by the respective State Governments.

 

C. Implementation of Scheme since 2018-19:

1. In light of the benefits accruing to the residents of the villages through successful implementation of this Scheme, it was decided in 2018-19 to extend the Scheme further as a continuous scheme by taking up certain number of villages every year for development. For this, it was decided to consider inclusion of all those districts 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.
2. Revision of Scheme Guidelines: To ensure all round development of the selected villages, so that they can indeed become ‘Adarsh Grams’, the existing Scheme guidelines were revised to capture the Gaps in critical socio-economic ‘Monitorable Indicators’ as part of various sectors/domains. These domains are: i) Drinking water and Sanitation ii) Education iii) Health and Nutrition iv) Social Security v) Rural Roads and Housing vi) Electricity and Clean Fuel vii) Agricultural Practices etc. viii) Financial Inclusion ix) Digitization x) Livelihood and Skill Development. A total of 50 socio-economic monitorable indicators have been identified for saturation in selected villages under these 10 domains.
3. New Approach for implementation: The identification of Needs or Gaps with regard to the identified ‘Monitorable Indicators’ are to be done on a comprehensive Need Assessment exercise and accordingly the ‘Village Development Plans’ (VDPs) are generated showing the critical gaps and proposed source of funding to fulfil the gaps. The Scheme relies heavily on convergence with other initiatives of the Central and State/UT 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 provides 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/UT Schemes, the ‘Gap-filling’ funds are provided under the Scheme, for those areas which cannot be covered otherwise.
4. Funding under the Scheme: 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’ to be utilized at the Centre, State, District and Village level in the ratio of 1:1:1:2.

   Further, for continuous development of the villages already covered under the earlier phases, there is a component of ‘additional round of funding’ of Rs. 10 lakh per village. Out of this, Rs.9.50 lakh per village would be utilized for ‘Gap-filling’ component and Rs.0.50 lakh per village are to be utilized amongst the Centre, State, District and Village in a ratio of 1:1:1:2 for Administrative and other expenses.

   Initially, the State Government/UT Administration will release the entire admissible funds under ‘Administrative Expenses’ to the District Administrations for carrying out capacity building, administrative expenses, awareness generation and initiating non cost based activities. Thereafter the entire admissible funds under the ‘Gap-filling’ component i.e. Rs.20.00 lakh per village will be released by the State Government to the District Administration once the VDP of the selected villages is approved by their DLCC so that the planned works can be executed without any delay.

D. Project Monitoring:

1. The Scheme provides for setting up of Committees at various levels for guidance, monitoring and implementation of the scheme at their respective level. 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.
2. The Government of India has also 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 https://pmagy.gov.in .

E. Financial Year-wise releases under the Scheme (Rs. in Crore):

Year	Budget Estimate	Revised Estimate	Expenditure
2009-10	4.00	4.00	4.00
2010-11	400.00	400.00	97.00
2011-12	100.00	100.00	100.00
2012-13	1.00	0.00	0.00
2013-14	100.00	0.00	0.00
2014-15	100.00	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	718.00	717.956
2020-21	700.00	300.00	216.52
PMAGY as a Component of PM-AJAY
2021-22	900.00	900.00	1018.90
2022-23	975.00	-	27.356

 

F. Pilot Phase: (2009-10 to 2013-14)

Sl. No.	State	No. of villages selected	No of Villages declared  ‘Adarsh Gram’	Total Fund Released (Rs. In Cr.)	UC Submitted
1	Assam	100	100	20.10	20.10
2	Bihar	225	225	45.225	45.225
3	Himachal Pradesh	225	225	45.225	45.225
4	Rajasthan	225	225	45.225	45.150
5	Tamil Nadu	225	225	45.225	45.150
TOTAL		1000	1000	201.00	200.85

 

G. Phase-I: (2014-15)

Sl. No.	State	Villages selected	Village found ineligible	Balance village	‘Adarsh Gram’ declared
1	Assam	75	07	68	68
2	Uttar Pradesh	260	0	260	252
3	Madhya Pradesh	327	06	321	321
4	Karnataka	201	0	201	197
5	Punjab	162	02	160	78
6	Odisha	175	06	169	129
7	Jharkhand	100	0	100	0
8	Chhattisgarh	175	0	175	175
9	Haryana	12	03	09	09
10	Andhra Pradesh	7	0	07	0
11	Telangana	6	0	06	0
TOTAL		1500	24	1476	1229

 

H. Financial Progress under phase-I:

State	Central Assistance Released (Rs. Cr)						Total	UC Due and Not received
	14-15	15-16	16-17	17-18	18-19	19-20
Assam	0.00	0.00	15.75	0.00	3.75	0.00	19.50	-
Uttar Pradesh	1.00	42.00	1.10	8.65	1.85	0.00	54.60	3.70
Madhya Pradesh	7.70	47.32	3.15	10.50	0.00	0.00	68.67	5.34
Karnataka	0.10	40.00	2.11	0.00	0.00	0.00	42.21	-
Punjab	18.70	3.50	1.32	16.10	0.00	0.00	39.62	11.36
Odisha	0.00	21.00	15.75	0.00	0.00	8.75	45.50	1.62
Jharkhand	0.00	21.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.00	26.00	11.90
Chhattisgarh	0.00	21.00	20.75	3.75	0.00	0.00	45.50	-
Haryana	1.20	0.00	1.32	0.00	0.00	0.00	2.52	-
Andhra Pradesh	0.70	0.00	0.77	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.47	-
Telangana	0.60	0.00	0.66	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.26	-
Total	30.00	195.82	62.68	39.00	5.60	13.75	346.85	33.92

 

I. Status of implementation of scheme in villages selected since 2018-19:

1. The year-wise list of the villages selected and found eligible: 

Sl No	State/UT	Villages selected and found eligible
		2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	Total
1	ANDHRA PRADESH	107	189	148	54	525	1023
2	ASSAM	236	133	66	60	161	656
3	CHHATTISGARH	138	201	194	115	261	909
4	DELHI	-	-	-	-	02	02
5	GUJARAT	25	0	0	0	31	56
6	HARYANA	143	77	59	73	285	637
7	HIMACHAL PRADESH	85	158	56	49	110	458
8	J&K	71	190	0	0	96	357
9	JHARKHAND	173	181	158	156	321	989
10	KARNATAKA	257	497	304	90	575	1723
11	KERALA	02	0	0	0	01	3
12	MADHYA PRADESH	395	512	117	50	619	1693
13	MAHARASHTRA	141	62	0	70	246	519
14	MANIPUR	12	4	0	0	04	20
15	MEGHALAYA	4	0	0	0	01	5
16	ODISHA	253	327	190	134	525	1429
17	PUDUCHERRY	10	0	0	0	08	18
18	PUNJAB	218	209	452	1110	1304	3293
19	RAJASTHAN	284	459	278	220	777	2018
20	TAMIL NADU	270	205	0	1357	1123	2955
21	TELANGANA	138	31	0	0	179	348
22	TRIPURA	30	0	0	0	32	62
23	UTTAR PRADESH	708	1550	1476	2437	4216	10387
24	UTTARAKHAND	120	67	46	59	98	390
TOTAL		3820	5052	3544	6034	11500	29950

 

2. Fund Released Since 2018-19 under the Scheme:

Sl No	State/UT	Year-wise Central Assistance released under Phase II of PMAGY (amount in lakh)
		2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	Total
1	ANDHRA PRADESH	1069.00	1872.60	5506.80	1368.0	-	9816.40
2	ASSAM	2475.20	904.60	1810.20	0.00	-	5190.00
3	CHHATTISGARH	1400.20	4582.00	4008.00	2198.8	-	12189.00
4	GUJARAT	260.00	260.00	0.00	0.00	-	520.00
5	HARYANA	1534.00	633.60	2146.80	0.00	-	4314.40
6	HIMACHAL PRADESH	936.00	3491.60	0.00	1555.16	-	5982.76
7	J&K	738.40	2052.00	0.00	0.00	-	2790.40
8	JHARKHAND	1569.00	1222.70	0.00	0.00	-	2791.70
9	KARNATAKA	2733.00	5275.40	3656.60	8243.50	-	19908.50
10	KERALA	10.40	10.80	0.00	0.00	-	21.20
11	MADHYA PRADESH	4126.00	11846.50	0.00	5102.40	-	21074.90
12	MAHARASHTRA	1507.60	669.60	0.00	0.00	2735.60	4912.80
13	MANIPUR	124.80	208.00	0.00	0.00	-	332.80
14	MEGHALAYA	41.60	0.00	0.00	0.00	-	41.60
15	ODISHA	2818.00	1787.60	0.00	8172.34	-	12777.94
16	PUDUCHERRY	104.00	63.45	0.00	0.00	-	167.45
17	PUNJAB	1674.00	2035.80	0.00	0.00	-	3709.80
18	RAJASTHAN	2995.00	10379.00	1880.00	3690.54	-	18944.54
19	TAMIL NADU	2819.00	2224.80	0.00	14638.28	-	19682.08
20	TELANGANA	1433.00	216.00	1561.70	0.00	-	3210.70
21	TRIPURA	322.00	302.00	0.00	0.00	-	624.00
22	UTTAR PRADESH	7505.00	16430.35	0.00	55350.84	-	79286.19
23	UTTARAKHAND	1289.60	756.00	1049.60	1387.89	-	4483.09
TOTAL		39484.80	67224.40	21619.70	101707.75	2735.60	232772.25

 

3. Status of UC submitted and unspent balance (Amount in Rs Lakh):

Sl No.	State/UT	Total Fund Released	UC Received	Balance Fund Available with State/UT	As per PFMS balance available at SNA
1	ANDHRA PRADESH	9816.40	1069.0	8747.40	854.14
2	ASSAM	5190.00	2252.89	2937.11	3904.79
3	CHHATTISGARH	12189.00	7721.65	4467.35	7480.33
4	GUJARAT	520.00	0.00	520.00	570.29
5	HARYANA	4314.40	63.55	4250.82	SNA Not Opened
6	HIMACHAL PRADESH	5982.76	1320.76	4662.00	8644.99
7	JAMMU AND KASHMIR	2790.40	1009.26	1781.14	562.84*
8	JHARKHAND	2791.70	1256.90	1534.80	8078.83*
9	KARNATAKA	19908.50	5906.00	14002.50	14242.74
10	KERALA	21.20	0.00	21.20	Not Mapped
11	MADHYA PRADESH	21074.90	9838.00	11236.90	11770.90
12	MAHARASHTRA	4912.80	2166.80	2746.00	SNA Not Opened
13	MANIPUR	332.80	168.00	164.80	83.89
14	MEGHALAYA	41.60	0.00	41.60	54.73
15	ODISHA	12777.94	3849.60	8928.34	22921.79
16	PUDUCHERRY	167.45	0.00	167.45	1020.35*
17	PUNJAB	3709.80	962.464	2747.336	71.79
18	RAJASTHAN	18944.54	7126.31	11818.23	9722.54
19	TAMIL NADU	19682.08	5043.80	14638.28	12515.54
20	TELANGANA	3210.70	2829.24	381.46	SNA Not Opened
21	TRIPURA	624.00	620.01	3.99	0.00
22	UTTAR PRADESH	79286.19	7505.00	71781.19	25034.08*
23	UTTARAKHAND	4483.09	2626.29	1856.80	810.88
		232772.25	63335.524	169436.696	128345.44

 

*Single SNA opened for all the three component of PM-AJAY.
The updated progress is available on the web page www.pmagy.gov.in
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