The document provides guidelines for preparing a 5-year perspective plan for the National Food for Work Programme (NFFWP) to develop the 150 most backward districts in India between 2005-2010. It outlines a process for surveying villages to identify existing infrastructure, needs, and feasible projects. It recommends establishing committees to consolidate information and prepare the plan. The perspective plan will include chapters on district demographics and resources, existing schemes, panchayat-wise missing infrastructure and resource requirements, annual action plans for NFFWP, and metrics to assess progress.

1. GUIDELINES FOR PREPARATION OF
PERSPECTIVE PLAN
NATIONAL FOOD FOR WORK
PROGRAMME (NFFWP)
TRAINING OF TRAINERS
Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy
AMR-APARD, RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD

2. Objective - comprehensive
perspective plan of five years
 That would enable develop all the Panchayats of
the 150 most backward districts during the 5
years period of 2005-2010 in such a way that
there is visible impact on the major problems of
each Panchayat and a sound base is created for
self sustaining economy to remove poverty
and bring these Districts at least at par with
other developed areas of the state and the
country.

3.  It will facilitate optimizing all resources available
under all the developmental programmes operational
at the panchayat level
 To provide best possible and meaningful option for
convergence/dovetailing of all such
programmes to derive maximum benefit in favour
of the rural poor especially with regard to
generation of employment opportunities both in
terms of wage and self employment through creation
of need based optimum infrastructure at the
panchayat level in the short term and develop self
sustaining robust panchayat economy In the
long run.

4. Preparing the Perspective
Plan
 Survey each village and panchayat in the district to
collect data on
A. Existing economy infrastructure needs and to
B. Assess feasibility of projects to be included in
the plan
 Rough cost estimate for project/works suggested
must be given based on acceptable parameters and they
may be indicated in the plan document.

5. The people involved in perspective
plan preparation
 Consolidation and preparation of final document
– AMR-APARD
 Training of trainers at District level (~40
officers) – AMR-APARD
 TOTs – Senior Level Officers / special officers in
the District
 Training of Mandal level resource persons –
ToTs
 Perspective plan preparation of each village with
the participation of primary stakeholders and
facilitation by Mandal level resource persons.

6. PERSPECTIVE PLAN OF THE DISTRICT
The perspective plan will be a comprehensive document with
several chapters
CHAPTER-1
The information for the district as a whole on -
demography - SC/ST, women and children population with
work force divided into employed, semi-employed,
unemployed, occupational distribution,
month wise rainfall distribution,
depth of water table, depletion rate,
gender-wise illiteracy,
main crops, number of crops per year, per hectare
productivity, type of soil, agriculture productivity per
worker,
distribution of average land holding, average size of tilling,
distribution of commercial/Regional Rural Bank, availability
of bank branches per sq. km,
potential occupation, service and industry.

7. CHAPTER-II
Scheme-wise availability of resources of the district as
a whole in respect of all employment and development
oriented Programme such as
Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY),
Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana (RSVY),
Watershed development programmes (such as IWDP,
DPAP, DDP)
PMRY (its share for rural segment),
Rural Employment Generation Programme of KVIC,
Sampoorna Grameena Rozgar Yojana (SGRY)
MPLAD, MLALAD
NFFWP and
all other Centrally and state sponsored programmes

8.  Block-wise breakup of
distribution/availability of resources
under the above programmes along with
the present status of number of
persons unemployed/ semi-
employed may be given.

9. Location/area specific kinds/types of infrastructure, which are
expected in the Panchayat.
(i) One panchayat Ghar
(ii) One primary/secondary school building sufficient for the number of
children studying.
(iii) One low cost storage go down for storing food grains
(iv) Tube/open wells (whichever is relevant in that area) for drinking /
irrigation purpose.
(v) Internal roads providing connectivity with main roads
(vi) Drainage / nallah to drain out extra water in the water logged/flood
prone areas
(vii) Dairy/Veterinary development infrastructure.
(viii) Erection of permanent /pucca embankment for flood protection

10. (IX) Small check dams, water conservation activities like digging of
ponds/percolation tanks and de-silting of ponds
(x) Strengthening of marketing infrastructure at local Panchayat haats
/ market such as construction of permanent sheds and low cost
community storage godowns for safe storage of goods etc.
(xi) Individual/community horticulture/social forestry development.
(xii) Any other facility considered essential on the local needs.
* - The above list of infrastructure is only illustrative and not
exhaustive. It is possible that some of the above infrastructure may
not be suitable for a particular state / district / panchayat but may
be relevant in other. As such, the above list may be modified and
prepared taking into account local needs and aspirations.

11. CHAPTER-III
 Details on Panchayat –wise (i) list of infrastructure already
existing and (ii). List of infrastructure that are missing out
of the list given at Section-B, Chapter –11 (iii)
requirement of resources for creation of missing
infrastructure along with Programme-wise inflow/share of
the Panchayat out of all development programmes listed
at Section-A of chapter-11 and (iv) estimated employment
generation in terms of both self and wage employment
while creating missing infrastructure .
 The above information is to be given year-wise.

12.  While assessing resource inflow from all sources, 15% for
maintenance of assets already created /being created be
shown separately and as such only 85% of the total inflow may
be taken in to account for showing resource inflow for creation of
assets.
 The above Panchayat–wise list of missing infrastructure
have to be prepared in a manner that each missing infrastructure
will give a clear cut idea under which Programme it is proposed
with estimated cost and the number of expected beneficiaries to
be covered under self and wage employment.

13.  Incase of wage employment, number of man-day’s generation is to
be divided by 100 to arrive at number of persons to be employed.
 All activities /works shown under the existing Programme have to be
implemented in accordance with their respective Programme
guidelines. If any activity which is permissible under more than one
Programme, it may be shown under that Programme which has
larger share for that Panchayat.
 It should, however, be ensured that one activity is shown under one
Programme only with the stipulation that is completed during one
financial year it self. Spillover to the next year may be indicated in
exceptional cases where inflow of resources is limited during the
year.
 Estimated cost may be shown increased 5 to 10% every year while
showing year-wise activities to be taken up.

14.  Programme  PMRY
 SGRY  REGP
 SGSY  MPLAD
 RSVY  MLALAD
 IWDP
 Add more
 DPAP scheme of
 DDP Central/state if
any

15. Missing Infrastructure with Priority(Shelf of
Projects)(for example)
 Check dam to store water
 Drainage/ Nallah to drain extra water in water
logged/flood affected areas
 Digging of pond
 Land Development of Common Wasteland area
 Percolation Wells
 Storage Godown
 and so on.

16.  Employment Generation
 Under Self Employment Programmes (NO. of
expected beneficiaries)
 Wage Employment Programmes
 a. Number of expected man days to be generated (in
numbers)
 b. Number of expected beneficiaries getting employment (
(a) above/100)
 Area development programme
 a) Number of expected beneficiaries (in Numbers)
 b) (i) Number of expected mandays generated (in
numbers)
 b) (ii) Number expected mandays converted in to number
of persons( (b) (i) above/100)

17. CHAPTER-IV
 Block-wise exercise by consolidating
panchayat–wise information under respective
Block (Mandal) may be take-up.
 Summary for each Block separately to indicate
missing
 Infrastructure wise details giving
 Year wise cost estimates and
 Expected employment generation may be given

18. Missing Infrastructure
 Drainage (in waterlogged/flood affected areas) (in KM)
 Low cost community food grains storage godowns
 High school Building
 Strengthening/construction of permanent river
embankment (In KM)
 Check dams
 Digging of ponds/desilting
 Horticulture/Social forestry
(a)Individual
(b)Community
 Dairy Development
 (and so on)

19. CHAPTER-V
 Annual Action plans for the NFFWP for
the next five years based on the
perspective plan.
 Segregate Panchayat-wise activities
/works those indicated against the
NFFWP quota.
 Panchayat-wise and year-wise
works/activities to be taken up under
the NFFWP with clear cut prioritization
will have to be given.

20. Name of activities in priority order (for
example)
 Checkdams
 Digging of ponds/desilting
 Drainage (in waterlogged/flood affected areas)
 Development & Bunding of degraded lands
 Other water harvesting structures (mention
type of structure)
 (and so on)

21. CHAPTER-VI
 The success of the program will be
quantified based on the following type
of parameters on pre (as on 2005) and
post (as on 2010) perspective plan
assessment.

22. Item (for Example) Status at the Estimated Total
time of status after Increase/Decr
preparation of the ease
perspective completion
plan of the five
Irrigated areas (In Ha.) year plan
period
Water table (In Feet) (2010)
Agricultural output of
differenft crops (In per Ha)
Diversification of area to
cash crops (In Ha)
Nutrition level
Rural urban migration (In
persons)
Rural poverty ratio (In %
age)
Village connectivity to
Towns (in %age)