MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (DR. RAGHUVANSH PRASAD SINGH)
(a) to (e) A statement is laid on the Table of the
House.
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) to (e) OF THE
LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 343 DUE FOR ANSWER ON
17.03.2006
(a) to (c) No, Sir. There is no request from State
Governments for early sanctioning of pending projects
under Integrated Wastelands Development Programme (IWDP),
though State Governments do request for sanctioning of
more proposals from their priority lists. Prioritised
lists of districts for sanctioning IWDP projects are
invited from the States. New IWDP projects are sanctioned
from the prioritised lists depending upon the extent of
wastelands, capacity to implement wasteland projects,
performance of the State in implementation of IWDP
projects and availability of budget after meeting the
committed liability of ongoing projects. The prioritised
proposals which are not sanctioned lapse after due
consideration by the Project Sanctioning Committee (PSC),
which includes, inter alia, a State Government
representative. As such, there is no pendency of IWDP
proposals. The States, however, may include the
proposals not recommended by the PSC in a meeting in the
priority list for the next meeting of the PSC. State-
wise number of projects sanctioned and funds released
under IWDP during the last three years i.e. 2002-03 to
2004-05 and in the current year i.e. 2005-06 up to
10.3.2006 are given in the Annexure.
(d) & (e) The outlay for IWDP during the current financial
year (2005-06) has been increased to Rs. 485.00 crore,
approximately by 32% over the last year`s allocation of
Rs. 368.00 crore. In the next financial year i.e. 2006-
07, the outlay for IWDP is maintained at the same level.
