Ministry of Rural Development 2017

Year Review-2017: Ministry of Rural Development

                    Pradhan Mantri Awwas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G)

The erstwhile scheme of IAY has been  restructured into Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) with effect from 1^st April, 2016 and is in line with the Government’s commitment of providing ‘Housing for All by 2022’ with improved scheme architecture and robust delivery and monitoring mechanism.

Achievement/Initiatives during 2017-18:

·         The Ministry envisages to construct  1 crore houses in rural India at enhanced unit assistance of Rs 1.20 lakh in plain areas and Rs 1.30 lakh in difficult areas/hilly states/IAP districts by 2018-19 under PMAY-G.  In addition to the unit assistance, the beneficiary is also entitled to receive Rs 12,000 for construction of a toilet and 90/95 days of unskilled wage labour for construction of the house in convergence with MGNREGS.

·         Against the target of 75.88 lakh houses allocated to the States/UTs under PMAY-G during 2016-18, 71.01 lakh beneficiaries have been registered, out of which 63.72 lakh houses have been geo-tagged. 58.58 lakh beneficiaries have received sanctions of their houses, out of which 53.20 lakh and 34.44 lakh beneficiaries have received 1^st and 2^nd installments respectively (as on 14.12.2017) for the construction of their houses and 11.57 lakh PMAY-G houses have been completed so far.

·         Innovative use of space technology has ensured that resources are targeted to genuine beneficiaries by allowing verification of current housing status.

·         Uploading of geo tagged and time stamped photographs of beneficiaries in front of their existing dwellings, using the mobile Application viz. Awaas App, has been made mandatory for sanctioning houses under PMAY-G.

·         It is proposed that 20000 rural masons will be trained and certified under the training initiative in FY 2017-18.

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)

●       MGNREGA aims at enhancing livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year. The allocation of Rs.48,000 crore for the FY 2017-18, is the highest ever allocation for MGNREGA.

●       During 2017-18 so far, 4.35 crore households have been provided employment in 156 lakh works. In the process, 160 crore persondays of employment have been generated. Out of the total employment, 54% have been generated for women, well above the statutory requirement of 33%.

●       In FY 2017-18 (so far) nearly 60% of total expenditure is on Natural Resource Management (NRM) works. Expenditure on agriculture and allied sector works in FY 2017-18 is nearly 71%, which was only around 48 % in FY 2013-14.

●       The thrust on agriculture and allied activities is visible at the field level with about 71% expenditure on these works in FY 2017-18. Under Mission Water Conservation, 2264 water stressed blocks have received special attention for Natural Resource Management including water harvesting and water conservation.

●       During 2017-18, 3.6 lakh farm ponds and 1.55 lakh Vermi/ NADEP compost pits have been completed so far.

●       96% of the wages are being paid electronically into the Bank/Post Office accounts of MGNREGA workers through NeFMS.

●       Under GeoMGNREGA, using space technology, more than 2 crore assets have been geotagged and made available in the public domain.

●       As per the Socio-Economic Caste Census - 2011 (SECC), around 5.40 Crore households fall under the category landless households dependent on manual casual labour for livelihood. The Government is making all efforts to bring these households, who are not having Job Cards and are willing, to get employment under MGNREGS.

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)

The primary objective of PMGSY is to provide connectivity by way of all-weather roads. The programme also has an upgradation component with a target to upgrade existing rural roads in order to ensure full farm to market connectivity. PMGSY-II aims to cover upgradation of existing selected rural roads based on a criterion to make the road network vibrant. Development of Rural Hubs and growth centres are crucial to the overall strategy of facilitating poverty reduction through creating rural infrastructures. Growth centres/rural hubs provide markets, banking and other service facilities enabling and enhancing self-employment and livelihood facilities.

·         PMGSY, the rural road connectivity scheme, has made considerable contribution in connecting far flung and scattered areas of the country.

·         Out of a total of 1,78,184 eligible habitations under PMGSY, 1,45,158 habitations have been connected bringing the total habitations connected to 82%.   

·         5,08,047.22 km of road length have been completed under PMGSY during 2017-18 (as on October 2017), with an expenditure of Rs. 1,63,059.16 crore.

·            Road length of 17330 km have been constructed by covering 4817 habitations during the year 2017-18 (April to October, 2017).

·            PMGSY has also approved the proposals for all the remaining habitations to be connected and it is expected to attain almost 100% connectivity by March, 2019.

·            An amount of Rs. 1,47,984.88 crore has been released under PMGSY during 2017-18 (as on October 2017).

·            1.07 lakh kilometers of upgradation is proposed as PMGSY-III.  In this endeavour, the annual funding support of Rs. 19000 crore from the Central Government will be maintained upto 2022. 

·            Further, connecting habitations in LWE affected blocks have also been undertaken in 9 States with a target of constructing 5382 km. This project has been initiated from 2016-17 and is expected to be completed by March, 2020.

·            PMGSY is aggressively encouraging use of “Green Technologies” and non-conventional materials like waste plastic, cold mix, geo-textiles, fly-ash, iron and copper slag etc. in rural roads.  During the current year (upto 27^th Sept. 2017) 2,484 kms PMGSY road length has been constructed using “Green Technologies.

·            15% of all PMGSY roads are now being taken up through use of innovative green technologies like use of waste plastic, geo-textiles, fly ash, iron and copper slag and cold mix. 

·            With a view to bring transparency & responsiveness in governance, plug leakages and to quickly address the citizen grievances, PMGSY has been encouraging use of information technology, mobile technology and space technology. A Mobile Application “Meri Sadak” launched to enable citizens to register complaints regarding the quality and pace of construction of PMGSY roads. 

·            PMGSY-II programme launched to cover upgradation of existing selected rural roads based on a criterion to make the road network vibrant. So far, 12 States have transited to PMGSY-II for which 3,738 works have already been cleared covering 25,791.56 km upgradation works (as on October, 2017). States have completed 1459 works by upgrading 11,798.85 km road length.

National Social Assistance Programme  (NSAP)

NSAP comprises of five sub-schemes namely Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS), Indira Gandhi National Widow  Pension Scheme (IGNWPS), Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme (IGNDPS), National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS) and Annapurna Scheme. The schemes of NSAP are implemented both in urban and rural areas, by the Social Welfare Department in the States.

·         The National Social Assistance Programme covers 3.20 crore beneficiaries include about 2.40 crore old age pensioners, 70.43 lakh widow pensioners and 10.32 lakh pensioners with disability.

·         NSAP has been included under Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme and in the current year State of Gujarat and UT of Lakshadweep are using 100% transfer through DBT mechanism.  DBT has been partially implemented in the States of Jharkhand, Haryana, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. 

·         For preventing leakages of funds to unintended beneficiaries 100% records have been digitized.

·         74.08% of Aadhar of beneficiaries have been seeded in the Bank A/Cs

·         There is proposal to revamp the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) as Pradhan Mantri Samajik Suraksha Yojana (PMSaSY) admissible to 5.07 crore beneficiaries.

Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission

Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) seeks to reach out to 8-9 crore rural poor households and organize one woman member from each household into affinity based women SHGs and federations at village level and at higher levels.

Progress:

·            During 2017-18 (as on October 2017), 683 additional blocks have been covered under “Intensive” implementation strategy of DAY-NRLM bringing the cumulative total to 4330 blocks.

·            During the year 2017-18 so far, over 56 lakh households have been mobilized into 4.84 lakh SHGs.

·            SHGs have also been extended a capitalization support of Rs. 729.74 crore.

·            A total amount of Rs. 35410.42 lakh has been disbursed to 2.84 lakh SHGs as Revolving Fund (RF) while Rs. 53599.77 lakh has been disbursed to 1.01 lakh SHGs and their federation as Community Investment Fund (CIF) so far during 2017-18.

·            The SHG-Bank Linkage programme has seen tremendous growth year on year under DAY-NRLM. During this financial year, about 14.2 lakh SHGs have accessed credit of Rs. 18000 crore up to October, 2017.

·            More than 33 lakh Mahila Kisans have been covered under Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana (MKSP) in 17 States, to empower women in agriculture and enhance their participation and productivity in agriculture based livelihoods.

·            “Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana (AGEY)” has been initiated as a sub scheme under DAY-NRLM to provide an alternative source of livelihoods to members of Self Help Groups (SHGs) under DAY-NRLM by facilitating them to operate public transport services in backward rural areas and  to provide safe, affordable and community monitored rural transport services (e-rickshaws, 3 and 4 wheeler motorised transport vehicles) to connect remote villages with key services and amenities (including access to markets, education and health) for the overall economic development of the area by making use of the supports available within the framework of DAY-NRLM. The sub-scheme will be implemented in 250 blocks in the country on a pilot basis for a period of 3 years from 2017-18 to 2019-20. Till date, proposals from 17 States have been approved and 153 vehicles have started operating in rural areas.

·         Promotion of rural enterprises: Start Up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP) is a sub-scheme of DAY-NRLM designed to support rural youth to take up local entrepreneurship. As on date, 7800 enterprises have been promoted across 17 States. It is expected that SVEP will support an additional 25000 entrepreneurs during the year 2018-19.

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Deendayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY)

DDU-GKY is a placement linked skill-training programme and is uniquely placed to empower rural poor youth with employable skills and facilitate their participation in regular labour market. It is currently being implemented in 28 States.

Progress:

·         DDU-GKY has over 566 Training Centers in 674 Projects, in partnership with over 310 Project Implementing Agencies conducting training across 39 sectors, and over 329 job roles (as on 31.10.17).

·         Against a target of skilling 2 lakh candidates during the current financial year, over 83,745 candidates have already been trained, of which over 46,654 candidates have been placed in jobs (as on 31.10.17).

·         The Ministry has selected 12 new Champion Employers and entered into an MoU with them for high quality training and placements.

Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs): At present RSETIs are offering training in more than 56 vocations classified under major areas like agriculture, processing, product manufacture and general EDP.

Initiatives:

·         During 2017-18 (as on 31.10.17), 7,897 candidates have been trained under Project LIFE MGNREGA by RSETIs.

·         9,200 candidates have been credit linked under thrust programmes of PMO while 3,519 candidates have been credit linked under PM MUDRA Yojana by the RSETIs.

·         The National Centre for Excellence of RSETIs (NACER) was selected by ASSOCHAM for “Best NGO in Skill Development” for remarkable contribution in Entrepreneurship Development through RSETIs for the year 2016-17.

·         Another initiative ‘Kaushal Panjee’ (Skill Register) has also been undertaken which provides a citizen centric end-to-end solution to aid mobilization of candidates for Rural Self Employment and Training Institutes (RSETIs) and DDU-GKY.

Progress:

·         586 RSETIs are functioning  across the country.

·         Over 25.24 lakh unemployed youth have been trained under RSETIs, out of which, about 16.64 lakh have been settled (from 1.4.2008 up to 30.11.2017).

·         Against a target of skilling 3.97 lakhs candidates in FY 2017-18, 2,34,692 candidates have been trained and 1,55,174 settled.

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee RURBAN Mission

The Government approved the Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission (SPMRM) with an outlay of Rs. 5142.08 crores on 16^th September, 2015 with the objective to transform rural areas into economically, socially and physically sustainable spaces. Under this Mission, 300 clusters in rural areas, across 29 States and 5 UTs, with latent potential for growth are to be identified, following clearly enunciated methodologies in the framework of implementation.

·    Against the allocation of 300 clusters, 267 clusters have already been identified following the prescribed cluster selection methodology. The emphasis is to develop the thematic economic strengths of the clusters, provide required amenities to support this, apart from saturating basic, social and digital infrastructure in the clusters within a period of 3 years.

·   153 Integrated Cluster Action Plans (ICAPs), which are the blue prints of investment for each cluster, have been approved for 29 States and one UT of Dadra & Nagar Haveli.

·   The work in the clusters in areas identified are ongoing and nearly Rs 1500 crores of expenditure has been incurred under the Mission till date.

·   At the end of the Mission period, the country will have 300 Rurban clusters which will be ODF, green, agro based and thematic clusters based on skilled manpower and access to economic opportunities.

Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY)

·         Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) was launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister on 11th October 2014 with the objective of creating model Gram Panchayats in all parts of the country. The development of SAGY Gram Panchayats takes place under the guidance of Hon’ble Members of Parliament through the convergence and implementation of existing Government Schemes and Programmes without allocating any additional funds.

·         The Hon’ble Members of Parliament have adopted 1241 Gram Panchayats under SAGY as on 18^th December 2017. As an initial step, the Gram Panchayats identified under SAGY conduct awareness generation and social mobilisation activities. This is followed by a baseline survey and participatory formulation of a development plan for the village under the guidance of Hon’ble MPs. The Gram Panchayats adopted under SAGY prepared Village Development Plans (VDP) containing prioritised time-bound activities to achieve holistic progress of the village, through the convergence of resources. Out of the 1241 Gram Panchayats adopted under SAGY, 857 Gram Panchayats have uploaded their Village Development Plans on the SAGY website. As per data updated on the SAGY website till 18th December 2017, Gram Panchayats identified under SAGY have completed 19951 projects and 7152 (15.3%) projects are in progress.

de-colonising Indian civil service.

You can never decolonize the Civil Service. Tyranny is the source of their unaccountable power and wealth.

The British were ruthless. They did everything the Zionists did before the Zionists did. But they won and the winners write History. But they did have certain redeeming features which is why they were able to get so many natives to build their empire for them. One such quality was a deep sense of fair play that had been inculcated in them since the days of Elizabeth the First, built on the much earlier foundation of the Magna Charta which not only helped them escape the rigours of proletariat revolutions that took place in Russia, or France but build a powerful nation.

This is why, to weaken and enslave India, they induced the enshrinement of inequality under law, exceptions to the rule of law and "many nations" in India's Constitution, thus taking away their principal contribution that had stolen away men's hearts and minds from the Sultans and the Rajas, to risk and sacrifice their lives for them. In other words, with this one deft stroke of Constitutional legerdemain, they returned India to what they had found. A patch work quilt of raping, looting petty potentates.

They accelerated the transformation by inspiring their stooges who ruled India after them with "Social Engineering" and turned the pyramid upside down to put power in the hands of those least capable and keep it away from merit and integrity. Thus it is that we see India today, a law less Nation in a constant state of Civil War, reduced to 135 out of 172 countries (and below Sub-Saharan Africa) in the Global Human and Social Development Index (UNDP – 2015) and 143 rd out of 172 countries in internal Peace and Stability (UNDP – 2015) , home to 30% of the World’s poor (World Bank 2016) and with the highest number of Bomb Blast in the World 2016) pushing Iraq to a lowly second place with just half as many; in just 67 years.

The Indian Constitution that was plagiarized by Nehru G and Ambedkar G from the Government of India Act (1935) (A House of Lords Confection) modified for the “Constituent Assembly” by Sir Maurice Gwyer, the then Chief Justice of Delhi, by adding notions such as “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others”, and “Four legs good, two legs bad” borrowed from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and the laws that have flowed therefrom to condemn India to a perpetual State of Civil War is sufficient evidence of this.

 

A nation locked in the iron maiden of the British Judiciary, Bureaucracy, Police and raised on the gibbet of the Reservations-Extortion Constitution and laws.

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MA Khan Yusufi Information commisioner

Case of corruption in Central information commisioner Delhi.

M A Khan Yusufi Information commisioner CIC, New Delhi

 

Object of RTI is exposing corruption and increasing efficiency;

Date 5.1.2015

From;

KD Aggarwal, 

#1366, Sector 40-B,

Chandigarh.

To,

         Secretary/Additional secretary/Registrar/Joint Secretary/IC, Central Information commission, 2^nd floor August Kranti Bhawan, Bhikaji cama Place, New Delhi 110066.

Sub; Complaint of corruption against IC MA Khan Yusufi

Sir,

Sh D P Ojha ex-official Liquidator, Chandigarh and presently posted as official Liquidator, New Delhi is involved in upto Rs 500 crore scam in the office of official Liquidator, Chandigarh. Part evidence collected under RTI can be made available on request. The modus operandii is;-

i)       Looting Public of money and property worth crores of rupees by pstealing, cheating and theft of assets under his custody.

ii)      Making payment in name of persons who have never been born and thus making crores of rupees for self and benefit of private persons.

iii)     Making undue gains for himself and loss to public by managing bids of Properties below their valuation and pocketing the difference.

iv)     Making payments to Valuers in excess of their entitlement by concealing the approved norms, getting different valuations of same property to show to different persons for the purpose of managing bids thereby making private benefit of public office.

I have been seeking information under RTI to expose corruption. I was informed that D P Ojha has visited o/o CIC to make contact with IC dealing with matters pertaining to him/ official Liquidators with object of influencing his decision by offer of pecuniary and other advantage. In December I received notice of hearing of 3 appeals 2014/460-462 for 17.12.14 filed in March 2014. Unfazed by what I had heard, I attended the hearings held on 17^th December. Official from O/O Official Liquidator also attended but he was asked to remove his attendance. Taking no chances and as a matter of abundant caution I faxed my written submissions of about 4-5 lines in each matter at or about 9.30 AM on following day i.e. 18^th December. It was confirmed by staff that order is not finalized and faxes are legible and have been placed in respective files for Information Commissioner Khan Yusufi to see.

The orders on all three appeals have been received. In the least they evidence lack of human intelligence and at most they confirm what I had heard. The details are;

Information sought in Appeal 460/2014;

Details of FIRs lodged regarding theft of assets of Companies in Liquidation since 01.01.2003 and connected issues.

Written submission faxed in Appeal 460/2014;

Total number of companies under Winding up; 150-200.

Total number of companies where assets were available; 80-100

Number of companies where thefts have occurred; 80-100

However FIRs are not lodge in all cases but only in some Cases and such number of cases may be in range of;30-50

Why order is ex-facie corrupt and/or against human intelligence?;

i)  There is no mention of written submissions and no discussion on the same, which is evidence of either lack of human intelligence or deliberate act of corruption.

ii)  The order states; “Appellant admitted himself that he is not aware about the exact number of companies during particular period”. The statement in the order is false to the knowledge and against records amounting to offence of perjury by Information Commissioner Khan Yusufi.

iii)   Sh Khan Yusufi further states that information is vague and Applicant failed to pinpoint name of companies where theft has occurred. Name of company where theft has taken place is known either to the thief or to Liquidator. How would a citizen know in which company thief has stolen. Contention is against human intelligence. Further as per Information Commissioner Khan Yusufi the citizen must be submit exact information he requires to CPIO and then seek It back from CPIO under RTI. The contention of Information Commissioner Khan Yusufi is evidence of lack of human intelligence in Order.

iv)  Sh Khan Yusufi further states Appellant has inspected records of some companies and he is satisfied. As per record of 1^st AA only two companies are mentioned. Information Commissioner Khan Yusufi changes word “two” to “some”. Word “two” (out of 200/30-50) means no information was given under RTI  whereas if it is deliberately changed to “some” means information was given under RTI. It is deliberate act of misconduct. Changing of facts is evidence of corruption.

The order of Information Commissioner Khan Yusufi is evidence of lack of morality and/or lack of human intelligence.

Similarly his other two orders are as under;

Information sought in Appeal 461/2014;

Details regarding bids received qua sale of assets and highest as accepted by Official Liquidator and connected issues.

Written submission faxed in Appeal 461/2014;

“Official Liquidator invited bids and conducts inter se bids (in case bidders are more than one). Only highest bid is taken to court for confirmation. Contention of appellate authority that sale is confirmed by High Court which orders are under public domain would not apply since information sought pertains to steps taken by Official Liquidator prior to submitting only highest bid to High Court for confirmation.”

Why order is ex-facie corrupt and/or against human intelligence?;

i)  There is no mention of written submissions and no discussion on the same, which is evidence of either lack of human intelligence or deliberate act of corruption.

ii)  Information Commissioner Khan Yusufi says that since sales are confirmed by High Court hence order of CPIO/AA do not require interference. Whereas Information sought  was of the pre-stage of High Court whereas Information Commissioner Khan Yusufi deliberately changed it to later Court proceedings.

iii)  Changing information sought is evidence of corruption. The order of Information Commissioner Khan Yusufi is evidence of lack of morality and/or lack of human intelligence.

Information sought in Appeal 462/2014;

Valuations of companies where sales have already been confirmed or pending confirmation and not part of court record. 

Written submission faxed in Appeal 461/2014;

The previous order of CIC would not apply as in present application under RTI I have sought copy of valuations reports in those cases where sale has been finalized and hence valuation report has become redundant and ceased to a commercial secret.

Why order is ex-facie corrupt and/or against human intelligence?;

i)  There is no mention of written submissions and no discussion on the same, which is evidence of either lack of human intelligence or deliberate act of corruption.

ii)  He further states that he asked me exact number of companies. This is neither an issue in the case nor raised by CPIO/AA or even by Information Commissioner Khan Yusufi during hearing. The contention is false and evidences lack of morality and basic human intelligence.

It is a folly to say; File an appeal. Such a contention makes the oath of office redundant. Corruption violates oath of office and is also an offense of moral turpitude. The only yardstick is whether the orders suffer from lack of ordinary human intelligence and prudence? If yes, than, further action be taken as per law. These orders have been passed at instance of D P Ojha official Liquidator presently posted in New Delhi. The orders are abuse of RTI act aimed at encouraging corruption and hiding corrupt acts and deeds. Hence you are requested to take appropriate action and also transfer all my cases from his bench to some other bench.”

This is a separate request to him to recuse himself from hearing my cases.

                                                                             K D Aggarwal