The document outlines India's goals and milestones for rural development to celebrate its 75th anniversary of independence in 2022. It discusses completing 2 crore rural homes by 2022, ensuring all-weather road connectivity for every village by 2022, strengthening community action through self-help groups and local governments, increasing digital services and transactions, promoting 1000 farmer producer organizations and better market access for rural products, achieving sustainable sanitation targets through the Swachh Bharat mission, and expanding social security and developing 1000 rural economic clusters by 2022.

1. NEW INDIA 2022
MILESTONES @ INDIA 75
Department of Rural Development

2. 75 Milestones for India @ 75
• 75th Anniversary of Independence in 2022.
• Preparing a 1000 days’ agenda for action.
• Major milestones’ responsibilities and supplementary
responsibilities.
• Action Plan with clear timelines for achievement.
• Outcomes to be achieved by 30 June 2022 to enable
celebration on 15th August 2022.

3. Ensure a Pucca House to every family
• 1.5 crore rural homes completed in 2014-19.
• 2 crore homes have to be completed by 2019-22.
• Permanent waitlist and AwaasSoft +.
• 70 lakh homes by June 2020, 70 lakh homes by June 2021, and 60
lakh homes by June 2022.
• Complete registration for year one (2019-20) by 30th June 2019.
• Complete and upload remaining 10 lakh homes by 15th August
2019.

4. Strive to ensure all weather connectivity
for every Village
• 130 km to 135 km of road length per day constructed between
2016-19 under PMGSY.
• 97% eligible and feasible (500+ in plain areas and 250+ in hill areas)
already covered.
• Coordinate with MGNREGS and Finance Commission’s funds
through Gram Panchayats for Village roads.
• Every State to do comprehensive need analysis factoring State
initiatives by 15th August 2019.
• Action Plan for every Village connectivity by 2nd October 2019.
• Completion by 30th June 2022.

5. Community Action related Milestones
• 6 crore SHG women and 31 lakh elected Panchayat leaders along
with frontline workers can transform GP through community action.
• Coordinate with PRIs and DAY-NRLM to create Gram Swaraj Abhiyan
like community movement.
• This will help achievement in Ujjwala, Saubhagya, Jan Dhan, Swachh
Bharat, Safe & Potable drinking water, and nutrition.
• Coordinate with lead Departments and offer social capital of PRIs
and Livelihood Mission for implementation of programmes.
• Full immunization.

6. Governance related Milestones
• Banking services within 5 km – Banking
Correspondents through DAY-NRLM.
• Increase digital transactions and end-to-end digitized
government process in MGNREGS, NSAP, DAY-NRLM,
PMGSY, PMAY-G etc.
• Digital delivery of Government services.
• Geo-tagging of assets, GIS Mapping of roads,
substantial number of transaction based MIS already
achieved.

7. Agriculture related Milestones…(1)
• Increased incomes of households through Individual
Beneficiary Schemes of MGNREGS and diversified livelihoods
through DAY-NRLM.
• 1000 farmer producer organizations through DAY-NRLM and
its rural economic transformation component.
• Improved market access through better link and through
roads under PMGSY-III.

8. Agriculture related Milestones…(2)
• Better market opportunities for rural products through
Producer Groups, Producer Companies, Value chain
development, farm gate level processing etc under DAY-NRLM.
• Coordinate with Ministry of Agriculture regarding pension for
small & marginal farmers above 60 years of age – improved
irrigation and water conservation through massive efforts
under MGNREGS. Already 15 million hectares provided
protective irrigation in the last 4 years.
• MKSP – work with 38 lakh women farmers for sustainable
agriculture.

9. Sanitation and Solid & Liquid Waste
Management
• Ensure a toilet in every home through SBM or MGNREGS.
• Every Village with Solid & Liquid Waste management using
MGNREGS funds in conjunction with other State resources and
Finance Commission.
• Promote diverse models for waste to wealth.
• Innovative re-use of waste water.
• Ensuring sustainable ODF status through community action –
Panchayats and women SHGs.
• Supplement the efforts of Ministry of Water for transformation.

10. Social Security
• Expand NSAP to cover marginal & small farmers.
• Comprehensive social security for unorganized
labourers including insurance/pension etc – SECC based
wider coverage.
• Skill development opportunities for differently able and
for young widows – work already started under
DDUGKY/RSETI.
• Expand and increase pensions for 60+, differently
abled, and widows using SECC data.

11. Cluster Development
• Take nano enterprises of SHGs, successful SAGY GPs,
and Rurban Mission clusters to a new level of
economic activity and planned development.
• Create at least 1000 such clusters through coordinated
convergent action for infrastructure and economic
activity.
• Provide for critical gap funding as per need.
• Develop clusters around tourism, micro enterprises,
handlooms & handicrafts, agri processing, education,
skills, manufacturing, warehousing etc.

12. THANKS