(a)The details of proposals/projects received from various States particularly
Assam for implementation of Hariyali Scheme during the last three years and
current year, location-wise;
(b) The sanction status of each of the proposals, State-wise;
(c) The funds made available and utilized during the said period, project-wise;
and
(d) the criteria adopted for sanctioning the proposals/projects indicating the
targets set for each project alongwith progress made so far in this regard?
MINISTER OF STATE FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI A. NARENDRA)
(a) to (c) The Department of Land Resources is implementing three demand
driven programmes, namely, Integrated Wasteland Development Programme
(IWDP), Drought Prone Areas Programme (DPAP) and Desert Development
Programme (DDP) under Hariyali guidelines. New proposals are sanctioned every
year as per the guidelines. Prioritised lists of districts are invited from the
States for this purpose. In Assam, all the proposals included in the
priority list of the State Government during the last three years were sanctioned
by the Department of Land Resources. During the current year, priority list was not
submitted by the State Government of Assam till the meeting of the
Project Sanctioning Committee in June, 2006. However, the State Government has
been requested to submit a priority list for sanction of proposals during the
current year. Under DPAP and DDP, no proposals are invited as projects are
sanctioned to the blocks identified by the Hanumantha Rao Committee (1994).
State-wise proposals sanctioned under IWDP and funds released during
the last three years i.e. 2003-04 to 2005-06 and current year till 31.7.2006
are placed at
Annexure-I. State-wise number of proposals sanctioned and funds released
under DPAP (Hariyali) during the last three years is placed at
Annexure-II and for DDP at Annexure-III.
The funds under Hariyali Guidelines are released for each project in five instalments of
15%, 30%, 30%, 15% and 10%. First instalment is released unconditionally alongwith
the sanction of new proposals and subsequent instalments are released when the
unutilized balance is not more than 50% of the previous instalments released.
(d) New proposals under IWDP are sanctioned from the prioritised lists depending
upon the extent of wastelands,capacity to implement wasteland projects, performance of the
States in implementation of the IWDP projects and availability of budget after meeting
the committed liabilities of ongoing projects. The prioritised proposals which are not
sanctioned, lapse. However, States may include these projects in the priority list
of next financial year. Therefore, there is no pendency of left over projects in IWDP.
Under DDP and DPAP the proposals are sanctioned from the identified blocks on the
basis of DPAP/ DDP coverage in the State, performance of the ongoing
projects and budget availability after meeting the committed liabilities of the ongoing projects.
The targets for individual projects are not fixed by Central Government.
However, against the 10th Plan target of sanctioning proposals for 180.00 lakh ha. under
the three programmes, proposals for 127.55 lakhs ha. have been sanctioned upto 2005-06.