Overview Rural development is an integrated concept of growth

and poverty elimination has been of paramount concern in all the consequent five year plans. Rural Development (RD) programmes comprise of following:

Provision of basic infrastructure facilities in the rural areas e.g. schools, health facilities, roads, drinking water, electrification etc.

Improving agricultural productivity in the rural areas. Provision of social services like health and education for socio-economic

development. Implementing schemes for the promotion of rural industry increasing

agriculture productivity, providing rural employment etc. Assistance to individual families and Self Help Groups (SHG) living below

poverty line by providing productive resources through credit and subsidy.

Contents 1)Rural Infrastructure Development Bharat Nirman Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna Rural Housing Rural Water Supply Programme

2) Rural Employment Schemes National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojna National Food for Work Programme Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna

3) Tribal Development Definition & State-wise List Tribal Development Projects, Plans & Policies Tribal Training & Education Initiatives Tribal Development Cooperative Corporation

4) Statistics, Reports and Publications Rural Building Centres - Guidelines Draft National Development, Displacement and Rehabilitation Policy Guidelines for Watershed Development Programme

1)Rural Infrastructure DevelopmentBharat Nirman1)Roads

– Development of GIS based National Highways information system;– Guidelines for soil nailing techniques in highway engineering;– Pilot study on effect of overloading on road infrastructure;– Investigation on field performance of bituminous mixes with modified binders;– R&D Studies on performance evaluation of rigid pavements on high density

traffic corridors using instrumentation supported by laboratory tests.

2)Bridges– Creation of complete range of independent testing facility at Central Road

Research Institute (CRRI ), New Delhi

3)Telephone Connections4) Rural Electrification

Rural Housing

Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) The Ministry of Rural Development is implementing Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY)

with a view to providing financial assistance to the rural poor living below poverty line for construction of pucca house

Performance during the year 2007-08 During 2007-08, the Central allocation for Rural Houseing was Rs.40,322.70

crore. The target for construction/upgradation of IAY houses was 21.27 lakh. Against this target, 19.88 lakh houses were constructed/upgraded by incurring an amount of Rs.5,458.01 crores (including State share).

Performance during the year 2008-09 The Central allocation for 2008-09 under the IAY is Rs.5,645.77 crore for the

target of constructing/upgrading 21.27 lakh IAY houses. Out of this, an amount of Rs.1,694.48 crore has been released as part of first instalment and 85,879 houses have been constructed so far, (upto 31/5/2008).

Rural Water Supply Programme

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna