MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE
MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES (SHRI ARUN YADAV)
(a): Details of State-wise funds allocated, released and expenditure reported
from 2007-08 to 2010-11 for RKVY & NFSM are given in Annexure-I & II, respectively.
(b) & (c): Allocation under RKVY and NFSM to States are not made for any specific
intervention. However, under NFSM, recently released varieties of rice, wheat and pulses,
including short & medium duration varieties, are promoted under seed production, seed
distribution & minikits programmes.
(d) & (e): RKVY scheme has been launched to provide flexibility and autonomy to the
State Government to select, plan, approve and execute projects/interventions/components
that are most suited to the priorities and agro-climatic requirements of the State,
as per their District Plans.
Under NFSM, States/Districts are given flexibility to plan components as
per their requirements. Government of India approves the State Plan prepared
based on the district plans. Also, State are given freedom for 20% inter-
componential change in the approved plan with the approval of the State Food Security
Mission Executive Committee under intimation to NFSM Cell at Centre. In addition,
states have been provided funds under local initiatives to fulfill the local needs
of the districts for taking up activities that are not covered under other schemes of
Central/State Government.
(f): For RKVY, the State Level Sanctioning Committee headed by the Chief
Secretary of the State is responsible for monitoring and reviewing the progress
of implementation of sanctioned projects/schemes. Department of Agriculture and
Cooperation has also put in place a web-based Management Information System (MIS)
in order to identify and collect essential information and data related to each
RKVY project and also to collect the progress and completion details during
the project life cycle online in the RKVY website (http://www.rkvy.nic.in).
National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad has also been engaged for
carrying out monitoring of RKVY implementation in the States.
For NFSM, monitoring is planned at three levels, viz. National, State
and District levels. At National level, National Level Monitoring Teams (NLMTs)
have been constituted drawing members from DAC, ICAR, Crop Development Directorates,
subject specialists, mission directors of NFSM states and concerned officials of
state departments for monitoring the progress. Officers/staff of NFSM Cell. Crops
Division, and DAC have been assigned to tour NFSM states for monitoring of few
districts each during every crop season. Need-based Special Monitoring teams are
also constituted for monitoring of specific areas. Besides, National level
Consultants also visit assigned states to review the progress of the scheme and
suggest remedial measures for crop improvement. State/District level Monitoring
committees have been constituted at State & District level for monitoring the
implementation of NFSM activities. Separate monitoring teams may be constituted
based on specific needs. MIS is evolved to capture the real time data from the
field level regarding progress of the mission activities.
