Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thawarchand Gehlot today reviewed the progress of implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) in the Central Advisory Committee meeting here.
So far Rs 201 crore has been released to five states on pilot phase and Rs 228.97 crore to states in the extended phase, Gehlot said.
Following the success of the scheme in the 1000 pilot villages in Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, it has now been extended to another 1500 Scheduled Caste majority villages in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, he said.
According to the progress report of the states under pilot phase, all state governments except Tamil Nadu have contributed their own share towards gap filling component.
"As per data complied from reports received from pilot states, 9475 works have been approved and 7608 completed. A total of 338 villages have been declared as 'Adarsh Gram' in the five pilot states. Assam and Tamil Nadu have declared all identified 100 and 225 villages respectively as 'Adarsh gram' without providing any information on achievement of monitorable targets," a senior ministry official said.
PMAGY is a centrally sponsored scheme which is implemented by the Ministry of Social Justice for integrated development of Scheduled Caste-majority villages having Scheduled Caste population of more than 50 per cent.
The scheme aims to achieve integrated development of SC- majority villages through convergent implementation of relevant schemes and providing gap filling funds to take up activities which do not get covered under existing schemes.
