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1. All-weather road in rural areas • Task of connecting all eligible habitations with an all-weather road by March 2019 (earlier it was March 2022 but now target date brought forward to March 2019) • These roads are expected to link routes which connect habitations to agricultural and rural markets (GrAMs), higher secondary schools and hospitals. • Prime Minister Gram Sadak Yojana Phase III will include such linkages. 2. Small and Cottage industries • Allocated Rs 200 crores to support small and cottage industries manufacturing perfumes, essential oils and other associated products (because our ecology supports cultivation of highly specialized medicinal and aromatic plants) 3. Rural Irrigation • Both Central and State governments to help farmers install solar water pumps to irrigate their fields. • Government of India will take necessary measures and encourage State Governments to put in place a mechanism that their surplus solar power is purchased by the distribution companies or licensees at reasonably remunerative rates. • Long Term Irrigation Fund (LTIF) is set up in NABARD for meeting funding requirement of irrigation works. • Last year, government had set up Micro Irrigation Fund (MIF) for facilitating expansion of coverage under micro irrigation. • Rs 2600 crore allocated for Prime Minister Krishi Sinchai Yojana- Har Khet ko Pani (Ground water irrigation scheme) 4. Livelihood opportunities for Rural India • Rs 14.34 Lakh Crore to be spent for creation of livelihood and infrastructure in rural areas. • This covers construction of a) 3.17 lakh kilometers of rural roads b) 51 lakh new rural houses c) 1.88 crore toilets • This is expected to create employment of 321 crore person days. • Loans to SHGs will increase to Rs 75,000 by March 2019 from Rs 42,500 crore in 2016- • Allocation of National Rural Livelihood Mission increased to Rs 5750 crore. 5. Rural Electrification • Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the Rs 16,320-crore Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, or Saubhagya Yojana last year (2017) to provide electricity connections to over 40 million families (or 4 crore household) in rural and urban areas by December 2018. • Despite the government’s aggressive village electrification programme, the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana launched in July 2015, under which 78% of 18,000 villages have been electrified, it was realised that the problem of electricity ‘access’ wasn’t resolved. • A village is declared to be electrified if 10% of the households are given electricity along with public places such as schools, Panchayat office, health centres, dispensaries and community centres. • With a large number of household still remaining without access to electricity, the new scheme Saubhagya Yojana aims at ensuring the coverage of households as opposed to only villages of Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana. • Free connections will be provided to below poverty line (BPL) households. The beneficiaries for free electricity connections will be identified using Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 data. 6. Rural Housing Prime Minister Awas Yojana • Govt. has fixed a target that every poor of this country may have his own house by 2022. • For this purpose Prime Minister Awas Yojana has been launched in rural and urban areas of the country. • Under Prime Minister Awas Scheme (Rural), 51 lakhs houses in year 2017-18 and 51 lakh houses during 2018-19 which is more than one crore houses will be constructed exclusively in rural areas. In urban areas the assistance has been sanctioned to construct 37 lakh houses. Affordable Housing Fund (AHF) • Government to establish a dedicated Affordable Housing Fund (AHF) in National Housing Bank, funded from priority sector lending shortfall and fully serviced bonds authorized by the Government of India. 7. Rural Sanitation • To make our villages open defecation free and to improve the life of our villagers, government will launch a Scheme called Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan (GOBAR-DHAN) for management and conversion of cattle dung and solid waste in farms to compost, fertilizer, bio-gas and bio-CNG.
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