MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (A. NARENDRA)
(a) to (d) The Ministry of Rural Development is
administering programmes such as Integrated
Wasteland Development Programme (IWDP), Drought
Prone Areas Programme (DPAP) and Desert
Development Programme (DDP) in the country
including the Southern Plateau and Himalayan
Region for development of desert and drought prone
areas and wastelands/degraded lands. These
programmes are being implemented on watershed
basis and have components to develop/reclaim
wastelands and degraded lands by checking land
degradation and putting such lands to productive
use. The details of areas sanctioned and funds
released under the IWDP, DPAP and DDP to various
States including the Himalayan Region and Southern
Plateau areas during the last three years are as
under :-
Programmes Project Project area Funds sanctioned released (in lakh (Rs. in hectares) crores)
IWDP 460 24.60 848.57
DPAP 7563 37.82 844.79
DDP 4764 23.82 614.78
Total 12787 86.24 2308.14
The projects sanctioned under the above schemes are
implemented over a period of five years. Accordingly, the
projects are at various stages of implementation.
2. Ministry of Rural Development administers the following
projects which also include development of wastelands with
the assistance of foreign donor agencies in Southern Plateau
and Himalayan region. The physical and financial progress
of these projects during the period 2002-03 to 2004-05 are
as below :
S Name of the project Amount Wasteland Developed
No. received/ (in hectares) utilized (Rs. in crores)
1 Canadian 16.83 Andhra Pradesh 3015 International Development Agency Karnataka 1552 (CIDA) assisted Tree Growers` Gujarat 1221 Cooperatives Project (TGCP) Madhya Pradesh 922 Uttaranchal 215 Total 6925
2 European Commission 42.06 25000 (EC) assisted Haryana Community Forestry Project (HCFP)
3 Japan Bank for 34.54 9271 International Cooperation (JBIC) assisted Attappady Wasteland Comprehensive Environmental Conservation Project, Kerala
4 Department for 166.92 125000 International Development (DFID), U.K. assisted Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project (APRLP)
While funds for implementation of the project at
S.No.(4) above are being provided through the Department of
Land Resources in the Ministry of Rural Development, under
other three projects these are being provided directly to
the Implementing Agencies through the Department of Economic
Affairs.