Science 7 - LAND and SEA BREEZE and its Characteristics
AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
1. AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME
PRESENTED BY
BATCH-4
Submitted to
Dr. Shashikiran Sir
[Deptt. Of AGRI.Eco.]
2. INTRODUCTION
• Agriculture is the basis of the livelihood of most rural families.
• Basically India is an agricultural country with 143 million hectares of
land as net sown area, the highest percentage of land under cultivation
in the world.
• The country accounts for 17 percent of world’s population and ranks at
second largest populated country.
• The country has about 69 percent of population living in its rural areas
and villages and the sole source of their livelihood is agriculture and
allied activities.
• So wide employment opportunities and income flow, equally distributed
to all in these rural areas helps in the development of rural India.
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4. • More than half the people of the world and the vast majority
of the people in developing countries (Asia, Africa and Latin
America) live in rural areas.
• Most of these people are also still very poor and dependent
on agricultural practices that have benefited little from
modern technology.
• While agriculture is rightly the most important objective in the
development of rural areas, rural development should also
embrace the non-agricultural aspects of rural life.
5. RURAL DEVELOPMENT
1. It is strategy defined to improve the economic and social life
of poor.
2. It is all about bringing change in rural community in to from
traditional way of living to progressive way of living.
3. It is also expressed as a movement of progress.
4. According to UNITED NATION,It is a process of change by
which the efforts of the people,themselves are united,those
of government authorities to improve the economic,social
and cultural conditions of Communities in to life of nation
and enable to contribute fully to national programme.
6. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Grameen
Kaushal Yojna:
I. This is a placement linked skill development
scheme for rural poor youth.
II. It was launched by on 25 September 2014 by
Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Venkaiah Naidu on
the occasion of 98th birth anniversary of Pandit
Deendayal Upadhyaya.
III. It aims to target youth, under the age group of 15–
35 years.
IV. A total of 52000 candidates have been skilled
under this programme till 2014-15.
7. National Rural Livelihood Mission
I. This scheme was restructured from the
Swarn Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna in
2011.
II. National Rural Livelihoods Mission
(Aajeevika) is aimed to empower the
women’s self-help group model across the
country.
III. Under this scheme govt. provides loan up
to 3 lakh rupee at the rate of 7% which could
be lowered to 4% on the timely repayment.
8. Sarva Siksha Abhiyan
• I. SSA has been operational since 2000-
2001.
II. Its main aim is to make free and
compulsory education to children between
the ages of 6 to 14, a fundamental right.
III. This programme was pioneered by
former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee.
IV. Right to education is related to the 86th
Amendment to the Constitution of India.
V. Currently its expenditure is shared by the
centre and state into 50: 50 ratios.
9. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna:
• I. Initially it was 100% centrally funded
scheme, launched on the December 25, 2000.
II. After the recommendation of 14th finance
commission report now expenditure will be
shared by the centre and state at ratio of
60:40.
III. The main aim of this scheme is to provide
all weather road connectivity to the rural areas
whose population is more than 500 persons
and in terms of hilly areas it is 250 persons.
IV. This scheme is launched by the Ministry of
Rural Development.
10. Village Grain Bank Scheme:
• I. This scheme was implemented by the
department of food and public distribution.
II. Main objective of this scheme is to
provide safeguard against the starvation
during the period of natural calamity or
during lean season when the marginalized
food insecure households do not have
sufficient resources to purchase rations.
III. Under this scheme needy people will be
able to borrow food grains from the village
grain bank and return it when they have
abundant food.
11. Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna
• I. This programme was launched by
the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on
the birth anniversary of Lok Nayak Jai
Prakash Narayan on 11 October 2014.
II. Ministry of Rural Development will
be the supervising authority for this
programme.
III. Under this programme each
Member of Parliament will take the
responsibility for developing physical
and institutional infrastructure in three
villages by 2019.
12. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act
• I. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
2005, was launched on the 2nd Feb.2006. Now
the new name of this scheme is "Mahatma
Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee
Act" (or, MGNREGA).
II. This scheme is an Indian labour law and
social security measure that aims to provide
‘right to work' to the people falling Below
Poverty Line.
III. It guarantees 100 days employment in a
year to the village people.
IV. Fifty percent workers should be women.
V. Its 90% funding is borne by the central
government and 10% by the state government.
13. Antyodaya Anna Yojna (AAY)
• I. The scheme was launched by
the Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Bajpayi on the 25 December
2000.
II. The scheme provides food
grains to around 2 cr. Below
Poverty Line (BPL) families at a
very subsidized rate.
III. Total 35 kgs of food grains
is provided to a family. Rice is
provided at the rate of Rs. 3/kg
and wheat at 2 Rs.2/kg.
14. National Rural Health Mission
• I. The National Rural Health
Mission (NRHM), now under
National Health Mission is initiated
on 12 April, 2005.
II. Main aim of this plan is to
provide accessible, affordable and
accountable quality health services
even to the poorest households in
the remotest rural regions.
III. Accredited social health
activists (ASHA) scheme is also
operational under this scheme.
IV. It is run by the ministry of
health and family welfare.
15. Integrated Child Development Services
• The scheme was launched in 1975,
discontinued in 1978 by the
government of Morarji Desai, and then
relaunched by the Tenth Five Year Plan.
• It is a government programme in India
which provides
food, preschool education, and primary
healthcare to children under 6 years of
age and their mothers.
• In addition to fighting malnutrition and
ill health, the programme is also
intended to combat gender
inequality by providing girls the same
resources as boys.
16. Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY)
• It was started on 1 April 1999. The main aim of
this programme was development of rural
areas. Infrastructure like roads to connect the
village to different areas, which made the village
more accessible and also other social,
educational (schools) and infrastructure like
hospitals. Its secondary objective was to give
out sustained wage employment. This was only
given to BPL (below the poverty line) families
and fund was to be spent for individual
beneficiary schemes for SCs and STs and 3%
for the establishment of barrier free
infrastructure for the disabled people. The
village panchayats were one of the main
governing body of this programme.
17. National Social Assistance Programme
• It was launched in1995.
• It is a Centrally Sponsored
Scheme of the Government
of India that provides
financial assistance to the
elderly, widows and persons
with disabilities in the form
of social pensions.
18. Annapurna Yojna
• Annapurna Yojna is a centrally
sponsored scheme which has been
executed since 1st April, 2001 in this
state. This scheme has been
amalgamated in to the State Plan
since year 2002-03. Under this
scheme old destitutes who are not
getting the National old age pension
(NOAPS) but have its eligibility, are
being provided 10 kg food-grain (6 kg
wheat + 4 kg rice) per month free of
cost as Food Security.
19. Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awaas
Yojana(PMGAY), previously Indira Awaas
Yojana (IAY), is a social welfare flagship
programme, created by the Indian
Government, to provide housing for the
rural poor in India.A similar scheme for
urban poor was launched in 2015
as Housing for All by 2022. Indira Awaas
Yojana was launched in 1985 by Rajiv
Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, as
one of the major flagship programs of
the Ministry of Rural Development to
construct houses for BPL population in the
villages.
20. Provision of Urban Amenities to Rural Areas(PURA
This concept was given by former president Dr. A.P.J. Abdul
Kalam and discussed in his book Target 3 Billion.
PURA proposes that urban infrastructure and services be
provided in rural hubs to create economic opportunities
outside of cities. Physical connectivity by providing roads,
electronic connectivity by providing communication network,
and knowledge connectivity by establishing professional and
Technical institutions will have to be done in an integrated
way so that economic connectivity will emanate. The Indian
central government has been running pilot PURA programs
in several states since 2004
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23. Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows
• Work with institutions of the poor to build their capacity
and help them access their rights and entitlements.
• Facilitate capacity building in Self -Help Groups (SHGs),
and in institutions of local democracy, like panchayats.
• Conduct socio -economic analysis of the local areas at
Block level and contribute in ascertaining the felt needs
of the people.
• Help the district administration in local area planning.
• Assist in better implementation of poverty alleviation
programmes, particularly MGNREGA, NRLM, National
Rural Drinking Water Programmee
• Undertake action -research to discover more appropriate
ways of programme delivery by the district
administration
• Design and implement innovative projects.
• Provide feedback on rural development initiatives.
24. Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana
• The Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar
Yojana was launched on 1
September 2001 by merging the
provisions of Employment
Assurance Scheme (EAS) and
Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana
(JGSY). The programme is self-
targeting in nature and aims to
provide employment and food to
people in rural areas who lived
below the poverty line.It was
launched by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
25. Ayushman Bharat Yojana / Pradhan Mantri
Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) / National
Health Protection Scheme / Modicare
• It is a centrally sponsored scheme
launched in 2018, under the Ayushman
Bharat Mission of MoHFW for a New India
-2022. The scheme aims at making
interventions in primary, secondary and
tertiary care systems, covering both
preventive and pro-motive health, to
address healthcare holistically. It is an
umbrella of two major health initiatives
namely, Heath and Wellness centres and
National Health Protection
Scheme(NHPS).Indu Bhushan has been
appointed as the Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) and Dr Dinesh Arora as the deputy
CEO of Ayushman Bharat Yojana.