Accordingly, with a view to enable an area based development approach, a new scheme called the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) was launched during 2009-10, following the Finance Minister’s declaration in his Budget Speech delivered on 6.7.2009. The Scheme aims at integrated development of villages which have the population of Scheduled Castes above 50%.
2. Objective of Schemes:The principal objective of the Scheme is integrated development of SC majority Villages:
(a) Primarily through convergent implementation of the relevant Central and State/UT Government Schemes; and
(b) To take up identified activities, which do not get covered under the existing Central and State Government Schemes, through ‘Gap-filling’ funds provided as Central Assistance to the extent of Rs.20.00 lakh per village.
3. The implementation of the Scheme was started on Pilot basis in 2009-10 and a total of 1000 villages from 05 States namely Tamil Nadu (225), Rajasthan (225), Bihar (225), Himachal Pradesh (225) and Assam (100) were selected for this phase.
4. During 2014-15, PMAGY was further extended (Phase-I) to cover another 1500 villages across 11 States namely Andhra Pradesh (7), Assam (75), Chhattisgarh (175), Jharkhand (100), Haryana (12), Karnataka (201), Madhya Pradesh (327), Odisha (175), Punjab (162), Telangana (6) and Uttar Pradesh (260).
Year |
Budget Estimate |
Revised Estimate |
Expenditure |
Up to 2013-14 |
- |
- |
201.00 |
2014-15 |
30.00 |
30.00 |
30.00 |
2015-16 |
200.00 |
200.00 |
195.82 |
2016-17 |
90.00 |
50.00 |
62.68 |
2017-18 |
40.00 |
40.00 |
39.00 |
2018-19 |
70.00 |
140.00 |
167.876 |
2019-20 |
390.00 |
718.00 |
717.956 |
2020-21 |
700.00 |
- |
- |
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