PM Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY)

Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana was put forth in the Rajya Sabha by Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment. This scheme is implemented since the year 2009-10, Basic aim of this scheme is integrated development of villages wherein the SC population is more than 50%. As the name suggests ‘Adarsh Gram-Model Village’ it aims at developing the villages where residents have access to all the services and needs with improvement in all the socio-economic indicators

Scheme Overview:

Scheme Objectives and Benefits:

• The main objective of the scheme is to enable an area-based development approach
• It aims at integrated development of the villages with more than 50% of population of scheduled caste
• The scheme aims at developing the villages on various socio-economic factors
• It enables adequate infrastructure and improvement in socio economic factors prevalent,
• The implementation of this scheme enables the development at village level,
• Development under this scheme will help the residents of the village to access basic amenities and services like basic drinking water, sanitation, health, education, housing, roads, transport, etc easily.

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Components of the scheme:

• Convergence of schemes – For achieving the objectives, a convergence will be achieved in the central and state government schemes, so as to achieve the goals faster. Schemes with common objective of infrastructure development and socio-economic development at various levels will be converged
• Gap-Filling – Gap filling will include activities recurring nature, development of drinking water and sanitation infrastructure, construction of Anganwadis, construction of all-weather roads, etc will come under this.
• Village Development Plan (VDP) – A clear, indicative and realistic plan will be chalked out as a blue print of development at village level.

Parameters of Adarsh Gram – Model Village:

• Should be connected to the nearest main road thereby ensuring all weather road connectivity to villages
• Should have easy access to safe drinking water for everyone
• Basic requirements like food, clothing and shelter should be fulfilled
• Proper toilets and sanitation facilities should be available
• 100% registration of births and deaths is a basic
• No public consumption of liquor and harmful intoxicants.
• Electricity, and safe gas operations should be available
• Residents should have basic education facilities for every house and should have basic awareness of constitutional rights
• Should have anganwadi centres at required levels

Key Points:

• PMAGY, was launched initially on pilot basis during 2009-20 with about 1000 villages in 5 states- Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Assam are covered under the scheme.
• In 2014-15, the no. of villages was further expanded to cover more 1500 villages in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Haryana
• By the end of 2024-25, government is planning to cover about 26968 villages across the country
• For every new village, about 21 lakhs will be funded by the centra government, out of which 20 lakhs are targeted towards gap filling component and 1 lakh for administrative expenses.
• Various committees at national, state and district levels are set up for guidance, monitoring and implementation of the scheme.
• A separate dedicated website is launched for providing the entire data related to the scheme.
• Entire information about the scheme, villages covered, statistical data etc are available at pmagy.gov.in