1) The document outlines India's Mission Antyodaya to make 50,000 gram panchayats and 1 crore households poverty free by 2019. 2) It identifies landless manual and casual laborers as the most deprived households, comprising over 50% of deprived households in many categories. 3) Achieving the mission will require higher agricultural productivity, diversified livelihoods including animal husbandry and skills training, leveraging self-help groups, and performance-based functionaries at the gram panchayat level through a convergent approach.

1. MISSION ANTYODAYA
50,000 Gram Panchayats and
1 crore Households Poverty Free by 2019

2. Main Running Theme of Deprivation:
Landless Manual & Casual Workers
Particular
Deprivated
Households
Landless and
manual casual
labour (D7) %
Only zero room or one room with kucha walls and
kucha roof (D1) 2,37,31,674 1,41,13082 59%
No adult member between age 16 to 59 (D2) 65,15,205 30,46,605 47%
Female headed households with no adult male
member between age 16 to 59 (D3) 68,96,014 37,32,041 54%
Disabled member and no able bodied adult member
(D4) 7,16,045 3,25,070 45%
SC/ST households (D5) 3,85,82,225 2,08,86,654 54%
No literate adult above 25 years (D6) 4,21,47,568 2,32,18,296 55%
Landless households as manual casual labour (D7) 5,37,01,383 5,37,01,383 100%
Insecure & Uncertain Income
Unsafe and Poor quality Houses
Low on Skill & Education
Assetless

3. DOUBLING INCOME OF HOUSEHOLDS IN
RURAL AREAS REQUIRES……..
→ Higher Agricultural Productivity, market Linkage and
remunerative prices.
→ Custom hiring Centres, mechanization.
→ Diversification of livelihoods – Animal Husbandry, Dairy,
Horticulture, Pisciculture.
→ Moving up the skilling ladder.
→ Faster Urbanization.
→ Gram Panchayats with performance based HR for results.
→ Service sector, manufacturing, value chain development –
processing, value addition.
→ SHG social capital – beyond just micro finance.

4. Connectivity,
Roads, Internet,
LPG, Cashless,
Adhaar, IT/DBT
SC/ST/ Women/
OBCs/ Minority
Well being
Poverty
Free Gram
Panchayat
GPDP
Education
Skill
Development
Power,
Housing, ODF,
Waste
Management
Health and
Nutrition
Agriculture &
Water
Conservation
Bank/Credit/
Financial
Inclusion
Women SHGs
Economic
Activity
Social
Protection for
old, widows,
disabled
Non Farm
Livelihoods,
Multiple
Livelihoods
Sports
Youth Clubs
Culture
Poverty Free Gram Panchayat

5. Measuring Poverty Free
Panchayats/Households
 Baseline/Ranking of GPs on Development – Panchayat Darpan.
 Developing Composite Development Index.
 Web based Panchayat Ranking.
 Comparing HH to SECC deprivation status – Social Registry.
 SHG women as Social Auditors.
 Panchayats with human resources – performance outcome
thrust.
 Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP) – Composite
approach – including 14th Finance Commission Grants.

6. Avg. population per GP
> 10000 Avg. population per GP
5001-10000 Avg. population per GP
2001-5000 Avg. population per GP
Kerala
500-2000 Avg. population per GP
Madhya
Pradesh
Punjab
Uttarakhand
Himachal Pradesh
Tamil Nadu
West
Bengal
Assam
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Rajasthan
Orissa
Gujarat
Bihar
Telangana
3 Highest States
i) West Bengal (18,607)
ii) Kerala (18,567)
iii)Assam (12,185)
3 Lowest States
i) Punjab (1,331)
ii) Uttarakhand (885)
iii) Arunachal Pradesh (599)
National Average population per GP:
3,440

7. Measuring GP Performance
Household’s Well - Being
INFRASTRUCTURE AND
ACCESS TO SERVICES
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
AND PROTECTION
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AND DIVERSIFICATION OF
LIVELIHOODS
All Weather Road (Y/N) % of children fully immunized % of HHs with more than one
livelihood
Internet Connectivity(Y/N) % of 0-3 children under
weight, stunted, wasted
% of HHs practising
sustainable agriculture.
% of Households safe and
secure from calamities
% HHs accessing timely
primary health care
% of HHs with Adhaar linked
Bank Accounts
% of HHs getting power for 12
hours daily
% of HHs with food security
and clean water
% of HHs with over Rs. 20,000
in Savings account.
% of HHs cooking on LPG % girls completing Secondary
Education/ Skill Certificate
Course
% of HHs in non farm
employment
% of Agricultural Land irrigated % of old, widows, disabled
under social protection
% of HHs selling
produce/products in market.
% of HHs with solid and liquid
waste management/ODF
% of 18-24 year covered
under Skills/Higher Education
% of HHs that have leveraged
over Rs. 20,000 as Bank credit.

8. Preparedness for Poverty Free
 80% MGNREGS workers Adhaar linked.
 Water Conservation & Road Standards in MGNREGS.
 3.44 Crore women in SHGs – to reach 4-5 Crores by 2019.
 Micro Plan for diversifying livelihoods of 1 Crore HHs – DAY -
NRLM.
 95-100% IT/DBT in MGNREGS & PMAY (G).
 Space technology use – geo tagging of MGNREGS and PMAY
assets.
 Effective SHGs in 74,000 GPs, over 3000 Intensive Deendayal
Antyodaya Yojana – NRLM Blocks
 ODF villages – social capital
 900 + SAGY GP & 300 Rurban Clusters.

9. HR Reforms for Results
Horizontal Integration of functionaries at GP level.
Redefining Job Responsibilities, Specifying Outputs.
Performance-based Payments for Women CRPs.
Blended (wage plus performance based) payments for
programme functionaries.
Social Audit Feedback loop for functionaries.
SHGs as community cadres – Bank Sakhis, Book Keepers,
Pashu Sakhi, Kisan Sakhi, Social Auditors.

10. TARGET 2019
 50,000 Gram Panchayats Conserving Water – Drought Proof.
 45 lakh households covered under Skills – DDUGKY & RSETI.
 55 lakh covered through individual livelihood support.
 5 lakh Producer Groups – 4 - 5 Crore women in SHGs.
 Markets, value chains, non farm livelihoods for SHGs.
 All eligible habitations connected by all weather road.
 Swachcha Bharat Mission – IHHLs for all.
 1.35 Crore Houses under PMAY(G) and IAY.
 Bank linkage of Rs. 60,000 crores per year for SHGs.
 Solid and Liquid Waste Management in 50,000 GPs.
 Revised PMRDF programme – 6000 professionals demonstrating
idealism on scale in 3000 Blocks.

11. Financing 50,000 Poverty Free GPs and
1 Crore Households out of poverty
 On going MoRD programme resources Rs. One lakh Crore –
MGNREGS, DAYNRLM, PMAY Gramin, PMGSY, NSAP, DDUGKY,
RSETI – 15 – 20% Annual increase.
 Other programme resources – SSA, RMSA, MSDE, NHM, ICDS,
Swachcha Bharat Mission, PMKSY, PMKVY, etc.
 Fourteenth Finance Commission Resources – Rs. 488 per capita p.a.
 Scaling up resources for DAY – NRLM - Revolving Fund, Community
Investment Fund, Skill Development. Rs. 4000 Crores additional per
annum.
 Resource generation by Gram Panchayats – property, user charges.

12. SHGs - Social
Capital for
• Solid & Liquid Waste
Management
• Livelihood Planning
• Participation in
Panchayats
Improving Credit Linkage
• SHG – Individual member
account link
• On lending Institutions
• Multiple Dose
• Community cadre – Bank
Sakhi
Water Conservation
• Distressed regions
• Scientific DPR
approach under
MGNREGS
Thrust on Animal
Resources
• Pashu Sakhi
• Dairy Producer
Company/Coop.
• Goatery / Poultry
• Fisheries
Agriculture Livelihoods
• MKSP – 34 lakh Women Farmers
• Custom Hiring Centre
• Processing & Value Chain
• Farm Ponds, Wells, Composting
• Markets – sustainable agriculture
Skills & Livelihoods
• Placement based wage
employment
• Self-Employment
• Convergence – Textiles
(MSME, KVIC, Processing)
Leveraging of RD
Programmes for
Doubling Income
Community
Resource Persons
as Performance
Based Cadre – Like
ASHAs

13. It is possible to make 50,000 GPs and 1
Crore households poverty free by 2019
A convergent, technology led, asset focused, coordinated,
saturation approach is the answer.
States and Panchayats are ready for Mission Antyodaya