ENUMERATION OF HUTS&

IT ENABLED SELECTION PROCESS

F. Abdul RazickAdditional Director,

Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department

Government of Tamil Nadu22.06.2011

Tamil Nadu - Some Basics

• Unified Rural Development & Panchayat Raj Department – implementing various Central/State Schemes as well as supervising PRIs

• 31 Districts (excluding Chennai)• 385 Blocks• 12,618 Village Panchayats (~ 3,000 population)• 1,20,000 officials• Rs.9,000 crores annual Schemes budget

Census Definitions

• Permanent Houses – both walls & roof made of permanent materials.

– e.g. Walls made of burnt bricks, stone, concrete, etc.,– Roof made of tiles, concrete, G.I., metal, Asbestos sheets, etc.

• Temporary Houses – both walls & roof made of temporary materials.

– e.g. Walls made of mud, unburnt bricks, plastic, bamboo, etc.,– Roof made of thatch, bamboo, wood, mud, plastic, etc.

• Semi-permanent Houses – either wall or roof made of temporary materials, and the other made of permanent materials

Temporary Houses in Tamil Nadu – Census 2001

• 23% of households in Tamil Nadu live in

temporary houses

• All India average – 18%

• Rural TN – 33% (1/3rd)

• Urban TN – 10% (1/10th)

Huts in Rural Tamil Nadu

• Estimate of number of Huts to be replaced

– Census 2001 figures

– Less IAY Allocations

– Add for natural growth rate

• 21 Lakh huts in rural areas

Enumeration of all Huts

• Need to freeze number and list of huts as on the cut-

off date (1.1.2010).

• Pilot Survey conducted @ one Village Panchayat per

Block (385 Blocks) in the State.

• Main Survey in all Village Panchayats in the State.

• Conducted during April – May, 2010.

Enumeration of all Huts (contd.)

• 3-member Enumeration Team, comprised of:

– Village Administrative Officer;

– Makkal Nala Paniyalar; and

– Village Panchayat Assistant.

• Enumeration as a ‘team’, not individually.

• 3-member team mandatory.

• Super-checking Official: Deputy BDO / Deputy

Tahsildar.

Enumeration of all Huts (contd.)

• Intensive cascaded training

– State level : Collectors, District Revenue Officers,

Project Directors, DRDA.

– District level : Deputy Collectors, Assistant

Directors, Tahsildars, BDOs as Master Trainers.

– Block level : Enumeration Teams and Super-

checking officials.

Enumeration of all Huts (contd.)

• Enumeration Register capturing

– Details about the Household.

– Details about the Hut.

– Details about the House-site.

• Signature of the resident taken.

• Eligibility determined and recorded by the

Enumeration Team, Super-checking Official

independently.

Eligibility Criteria

• Based on Ownership of land, and availability of

‘Identifiers’.

• Land: Clear Title, Questionable Title, Land belonging to

religious institutions, Unobjectionable Poramboke Land,

Objectionable Poramboke Land.

• Identifiers: Part No. & Serial No. in the May 2009

Parliamentary Electoral Roll, Ration card number, TNEB

Service Connection Number, House Tax Assessment

Number.

Eligibility Criteria (contd)

• Huts classified as

– Eligible

– Conditionally Eligible

– Ineligible

• Determined by Enumeration Team.

• Independently determined by Super-checking Official.

• Finally determined by Software.

Enumeration Results

Category No. of Huts

Total No. of Huts enumerated 22.08 lakhs

Eligible Huts 12.37 lakhs

Conditionally Eligible Huts 3.31 lakhs

Conditionally Eligible Huts on Objectionable Porambokes (requiring alternative sites)

1.64 lakhs

Ineligible Huts 4.76 lakhs

Enumeration Results No. of Huts enumerated in each District

(10 Districts with more than 1 lakh huts each)District No. of Huts

Villupuram 288,924

Cuddalore 210,386

Nagapattinam 150,012

Thanjavur 148,960

Kancheepuram 131,241

Vellore 130,219

Tiruvannamalai 128,436

Salem 126,014

Tiruvarur 119,842

Tiruvallur 103,920

Enumeration Results No. of Huts enumerated in each District

(10 Districts with 25 thousand -1 lakh huts each)District No. of Huts

Pudukottai 74,648

Trichy 74,085

Ariyalur 68,922

Dharmapuri 67,289

Namakkal 50,226

Krishnagiri 46,708

Erode 46,222

Dindigul 40,088

Perambalur 31,421

Madurai 26,012

Enumeration Results No. of Huts enumerated in each District

(11 Districts with less than 25 thousand huts each)District No. of Huts

Sivagangai 22,795

Karur 22,338

Ramanathapuram 21,391

Tiruppur 15,181

Tirunelveli 14,479

Thoothukudi 13,446

Coimbatore 10,310

Kanyakumari 8,603

Virudhunagar 7,243

Theni 2,351

Nilgiris 890

2nd round of Field Verification

• Photograph of every hut with the resident standing in

front, holding a board containing a new door number

and serial number in the Enumeration Register.

• Photograph affixed on software-generated Application-

cum-Verification form, and signature of resident taken.

Role of Information Technology

• Web-based Software developed by NIC.

• Stage 1: All entries from the Enumeration Registers

entered into the RHS Database.

– Distributed web-based data entry from 385 Blocks.

• Stage 2: Onscreen Comparison and Confirmation, to

ensure that the Database is an exact replica of the

Enumeration Registers

Role of Information Technology (contd.)

• Generation of Application-cum-Verification Forms for

2nd Round of Field Visits.

• Generation of list of beneficiaries.

• Generation of individual work orders.

• Generation of lists of huts for follow-up action, like

issue of pattas etc.

Allocation of Permanent Houses

• To each Village Panchayat: a fixed component of

10 huts, plus a variable component in proportion to

number of Eligible Huts.

– So that ‘smaller’ Village Panchayats can be covered

completely in the first year itself.

Allocation of Permanent Houses (contd.)

• Within each Village Panchayat : Sub-allocation to

each Community (ST,SC,MBC,BC,OC) in proportion to

the number of Eligible Huts.

– To ensure inter-Community equity.

– IAY: 60% of Houses allotted to SCs/STs, causing

heart-burn to non-SC/STs.

Allocation of Permanent Houses (contd.)

• Within each Community : Habitations arranged in

descending order of number of Eligible Huts of the

Community, and sub-allocation of permanent houses

done.

– To ensure certainty and transparency in the priority

of selection.

– Systematic coverage of the ‘larger’ habitations, for

greater impact and ease of implementation.

Selection of Beneficiaries

• Within each Habitation : A simple, fair,

transparent and automatic process for selection of

beneficiaries.

• Beneficiaries selected in ascending order of new

door number as per the May 2009 Parliamentary

Electoral Roll.

• Selection of all 3 lakh beneficiaries done using the

Software specially developed by NIC.

Issue of Work Orders

• List of Eligible Huts generated by the Software, and

placed before Grama Sabha for information on

15.8.2010 and 22.8.2010.

• Work Orders generated by the Software, and issued to

the beneficiaries from 26.8.2010.

Construction of Houses

• Cement, Steel– supplied Departmentally.

• Bricks

– co-ordinated by Collectors.

– Firm orders – lead to reduced prices.

– Additional Brick Kilns by SHGs.

• Sand

– Additional Quarries opened in each Block exclusively for

the Scheme.

Construction of Houses (contd.)

• Masons

– Mason apprentices trained under various Schemes.

• Measurements taken by Overseers (Basement, Lintel

level, Roof Laid stage and upon Completion)

• Payments done to beneficiaries’ Bank Accounts by the

Village Panchayats.

RURAL HOUSING SCHEME –

Construction in Progress

RURAL HOUSING SCHEME –Construction in Progress

RURAL HOUSING SCHEME –Construction in Progress

RURAL HOUSING SCHEME –Construction in Progress

RURAL HOUSING SCHEME –Construction in Progress

RURAL HOUSING SCHEME –Construction in Progress

RURAL HOUSING SCHEME – After Completion

RURAL HOUSING SCHEME –After Completion

RURAL HOUSING SCHEME –After Completion

RURAL HOUSING SCHEME –After Completion

Current Status

• RHS Phase I

– 1,00,000 houses completed

– 1,00,000 houses in advanced stages of

completion

– 1,00,000 houses under progress

“GREEN HOUSE”• The State Government have

announced a new Housing Scheme “GREEN HOUSE”.

– Each house in 300 sq.ft.

– Unit cost fixed at Rs.1,80,000/-

– Solar Powered Lights to each house

– Will be implemented from 2011-12

Green House – Model Design

Plan of Green House

Plinth Area in sq.ft.

Living room : 130

Bed room : 88

Kitchen : 62

Toilet : 20

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Total 300

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