The document evaluates various rural development programs in India, focusing on their objectives, implementation, and impact. It discusses programs such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Swarnajayanthi Gram Swarojgar Yojana, Indira Awaas Yojana, and Kisan Credit Card Scheme, highlighting both successes and shortcomings. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of these initiatives in poverty alleviation and improving rural livelihoods.

2. Evaluation of rural
development programmes
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Gowsalya . R
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3. Learning objectives
•What is rural development ?
•What is rural development
programme?
•Some important rural development
programmes….
•Their impact assesment….

4. Rural development
1.Rural development means an action plan
for the economic and social upliftment of
rural areas.
2. It aims at improving the quality of life of
people living in rural areas.
3. It focuses on the action for the
development of areas that are lagging behind
in the overall development of the rural
economy.

5. Objectives
• Improving the quality of life of the
rural population.
• To improve the infrastructure of the
rural areas.
• To reduce unemployment by
providing opportunities for
employment.
• To provide clean water, education
facilities, electricity and proper
communication.

6. Evaluation of rural development
programmes
Why?
• Evaluation provides a
systematic method to study a
program, practice, intervention,
or initiative to understand how
well it achieves its goals.
• Evaluations help determine what
works well and what could be
improved in a program or
initiative.

7. 1.Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme, (MGNREGS)
• About :
• The Government of India passed the Mahatma
Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee
Act, 2005 in September, 2005.

8. • The Act gives legal guarantee of a
hundred days of wage employment in a
financial year to adult members of a rural
household who demand employment and
are willing to do unskilled manual work.

9. • Under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme, (MGNREGS)
totally 87.42 crore persondays have been
generated with an expenditure of `8994.62 crore
disbursed as wages to the workers.

10. • In Tamil Nadu, 82 percent of the beneficiaries
are women and over 59 percent of the
beneficiaries belong to SC/ST families. In rural
areas due to the implementation of MGNREGS,
the wages of women workers have considerably
increased.

12. Year Labour budget
(crore)
Expenditure
(crore)
Achievemet
(%)
Person days
generated (in
lakh)
2007-08 615 516.42 84 642.99
2008-09 1722 1005.20 53 1203.60
2009-10 1963 1676.40 90 2391.80
2010-11 2895 2324.60 80 2685.60
2011-12 3573 3472.00 97 1818.00
Total 10768 8994.62 81 8741.99
Performance

14. Inference
• Mgnrega is basically a successful rural development
programme but some drawbacks such as Delay and
Insufficiency in Funds Dispersal , Caste Based Segreggation ,
Large Number of Incomplete works , Fabrication of Job cards
are noticed . If these drawbacks get concentrated this
programme will be most superlative .

15. Swarnajayanthi Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY)
• About :
• This programme was launched in April, 1999. This
is a holistic programme covering all aspects of self-
employment such as organisation of the poor into
self-help groups, training, credit, technology,
infrastructure and marketing .

16. • Objective :
To bring assisted family above the poverty
line within three years by providing them
income generating assets through a mix of
bank credit and Government subsidy.

17. Total No. of SHGs formed 5.56 lakh
No. of SHG Members 85.70 lakh
No. of Rural SHGs 3.72 (67%)
No. of Members in Rural SHGs 57.37 lakh
No. of Urban SHGs 1.84 lakh (33%)
No. of members in Urban SHG 28.33 lakh
Total Savings of SHGs `3,374 crore
No. SHGs credit linked 4.85 lakh (89%)
Total credit disbursed so far 15633 crore
Reach of SHG Movement in the State

18. Year No. of SGH assisted Expenditure (crore)
2007-2008 5687 55.63
2008-2009 5059 47.81
2009-2010 6747 64.45
2010-2011 8813 79.63
2011-2012 7464 42.66
Total 33773 290.18
Achievement Under SGSY

19. Inference
• The assisting of SHG had increased from year to year;
simultaneously there are some disadvantages include
vast regional variations in mobilization of rural poor;
insufficient capacity building of beneficiaries;
insufficient investments for building community
institutions; and weak linkages with banks leading to low
credit mobilization .Whether these consequencies are
taken into consideration the SGSY scheme will lead to
the immense rural development.

20. Indira Awaas Yojana
• About :
• Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) was launched during
1985-86 as a sub-scheme of Rural Landless
Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP) and
continued as a sub-scheme of Jawahar Rozgar
Yojana (JRY) since its launching from April, 1989.

21. • It has been delinked from the JRY and has
been made an independent scheme with
effect from January 1, 1996.

22. Objective
• The objective of IAY is
primarily to provide grant for
construction of houses to
members of the
ScheduledCastes/Scheduled
Tribes, freed bonded
labourers and also to non-
SC/ST rural poor below the
poverty line.

23. Upper limit for construction assistance
Plain areas Hilly/Difficult
areas
Construction of house including
sanitary latrine and smokeless
chulha
Rs.17,500 Rs. 19,500
Cost of providing infrastructure
and common facilities
Rs. 2,500 Rs. 2,500
Total: Rs.20,000 Rs. 22,000

24. Evaluation Studies
• 21.1 The States/UTs should conduct periodic
evaluation studies on the implementation of the IAY.
• 21.2 Evaluation studies may be got conducted by
reputed institutions and organisations on issues
thrown up by the concurrent evaluation, meriting
detailed studies by the States/UTs as well as the
Government of India.

25. • 21.3 Copies of the reports of these evaluation
studies conducted by the States/UTs should be
furnished to the Government of India.
• 21.4 Remedial action should be taken by the
States/UTs on the basis of the observations made in
these evaluation studies and also in the concurrent
evaluation conducted by or on behalf of Government
of India.

26. Rural Housing during Eleventh Plan
Year New houses Upgradation of
houses
No. Cost No. Cost
2007-2008 88909 764.27 17528 21.63
2008-2009 75035 475.31 20953 30.73
2009-2010 155725 1506.27 38625 58.02
2010-2011 471936 4234.22 NIL NIL
2011-2012 160553 2085.53 NIL NIL
Total 952158 9065.60 77106 110.38

27. Inference
• The IAY is successful because , under PMAY the
government was able to complete 2.93 million houses
out of the targeted 5.1 million houses .But the good
news is that the government covered a part of the
remaining target under the Indira Awas Yojana.
Thus, the success rate rises to 68.6% when both the
schemes are clubbed.

28. Kisan Credit Card Scheme (KCC)
• About:
• The Kisan Credit Card (KCC) :The scheme has been
started in the year 1998 on the recommendations of Shri
R.V. Gupta committee issue of Kisan Credit Cards to
farmers on the basis of their holdings for uniform adoption
by the banks so that farmers may use them to readily
purchase agriculture inputs such as seeds, fertilizers,
pesticides etc. and draw cash for their production needs.

29. Objectives
• Post-harvest expenses
• Produce marketing loan
• Consumption requirements of farmers household
• To meet the short term credit requuirements for
cultivation of crops
• Working capital for maintenance of farm assets and
activities allied to agriculture,like dairy animals
• Investment credit requirement for agriculture and
alllied activities like pump sets , sprayers , dairy
animals.

30. Case study
Year No. of Cards Issued
(In lac)
Amount Sanctioned
(Rs. in crore)
1998-99 7.84 2310
1999-00 51.34 7548
2000-01 86.52 16427
2001-02 93.41 25858
2002-03 82.43 26277
2003-04 92.47 21785
2004-05 96.80 34186
2005-06 80.12 47601
2006-07 85.11 46729

31. 2007-08 84.70 49987
2008-09 85.92 46669
2009-10 90.05 57678
2010-11 101.69 72625
2011-12 117.60 91680
2012-13 129.82 126280
MEAN 84.79 44909.33
C.V. (%) 36.66 73.28
EGR (%) 26.37 22.72

32. Inference
• Thus, the kisan credit card scheme has shown
growth during the period of study in terms of
number of cards issued and amount sanctioned
under the scheme.

33. Conclusions
• Poverty alleviation is the main mandate of rural
development and hence special efforts will be made
during Twelfth Plan to bring down the poverty level to
below 10 percent by effectively converging various
poverty reduction programmes .Poverty in the State
dropped from 51.7 percent in 1983 to 17.1 percent in
2009-10, while the national average is 29.8 percent.

34. Trend in Poverty Reduction (TN)

35. References
• A.Vaidyanathan, characteristics of villages in
Tamilnadu, Review of rural affairs journal, (2015),
Vol.50, Iss.52.
• Albert Christopher Dhas, Rural poverty and
agriculture development in Tamilnadu, University
Libraries, (2012), Vol.2, Iss.4, pp:113.
• Ministry of rural development, Government of India,
Chapter 8 rural development, pp:88-99.
• Planning commission, Government of India,
Eleventh five year plan (2007-2012),Vol.1, Inclusive
growth

36. Thank you….
“The best, quickest and most efficient way is to
build up from the bottom. Every village has to
become a self-sufficient republic.”
-Mahatma gandhi