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Government of Indian has always focused on the rural development programmes to uplift the rural
sector of our country through the Ministry of Rural Development. Department of Rural Development
and Department of Land Resources are particularly formed to make various schemes for rural India.
As Rural India also plays a great role in Indian economy so their advancement is also important for both
the economic betterment of people as well as for greater social transformation. Better participation of
people in the rural development programmes, decentralization of planning, better enforcement of land
reforms and more access to credit are required to provide the rural people with better opportunities for
economic development.
Given below are the schemes started by Indian Government with the aim of rural development. Check
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It is funded by both state and central government after the recommendation of 14th Finance
Commission report. According to the latest data provided on the PMGSY website, under the scheme the
government has completed length of 705,179 km, and a total of 1,69,129 roads were completed.
Budget of the scheme is Rs 1500 crores to enhance career employability. It’s applicable in 21 States and
UTs across 568 districts and 6215 blocks to give a better living standard to those people.
The scheme was funded with the aid of World Bank. Main objective of the scheme is to provide efficient
and also effective institutional platforms for poor people with the purpose of increasing the household
income by improving access to financial services. NRLM also helps in adding skills to the poor so that
they can become the active participant in the growth of the Indian economy.
The Act seeks to provide employment opportunity to the working people in order to fulfill their
fundamental right to live life with dignity. Under this act, If a person does not get a job within 15 days,
he is eligible for getting unemployment allowance. It also highlights the significance of basic right to
work. Currently around 15 crore MGNREGA cards have been issued in the country, and in total of 28
crore individuals took the advantage of the scheme in the financial year 2020-21.
It seeks to provide free education to every child of the country in order to fulfill his or her basic
fundamental right. The budget of this scheme is shared between state and the central government.
Center covers 85% of the expenditure and the state shares 15% of the total. Over Rs. 37,383 crore has
been allotted in the budget of 2022 to the scheme.
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY)
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) is a rural development scheme launched in 2014 by the Central
Government in which every Member of Parliament (MP) will have the responsibility of the development
of three villages, including personal, human, social, environmental and economic development of the
villages. Its main objective is to achieve better standard of living as well as the quality of life in the
villages. Funding of this scheme is taken from the existing schemes.
This Centrally sponsored scheme provides financial help to different vulnerable segment of the society
like widows, elderly, people with disability in form of pensions. As per the current government data, the
NSAP has around 3 crore beneficiaries and also 1.5 crore state beneficiaries, which makes a total of
around 5 crore people who gets the benefit of this scheme.
Constructing cost of the houses is shared by both, the centre and the state. Except Delhi and
Chandigarh, this scheme has been implemented in rural areas all over India. Basic facilities will also be
provided with the house like toilet, electricity connection, potable water connection, LPG connection
etc.