(a) the target fixed for providing employment to the youth under PMRY during the year 2001-2002, till date, State-wise;
(b) whether all the States have met this target;
(c) whether the Government are monitoring the impact of this scheme from independent sources; and
(d) if so, the details thereof?
THE MINISTER OF AGRO AND RURAL INDUSTRIES (SHRI KARIYA MUNDA)
(a): The State/UT wise details of targets allocated during the year 2001-02 under the Prime Minister`s Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) are at Annexure-I.
(b): The achievement of target by the States/UTs for the year 2001-02 will be known after the close of the financial year.
(c) & (d): Yes, Sir. The Institute of Applied Manpower Research (IAMR), New Delhi has conducted two rounds of evaluation of the PMRY. The first round of the `Evaluation Study` pertained to the year 1994-95 which extended to 48 districts in the country, covering 15,331 beneficiaries. The second round of the evaluation pertained to the programme years 1995-96, 1996-97 and 1997-98 for 13 districts in 5 States covering 16397 beneficiaries. In addition, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) also conducts regular evaluation studies on the PMRY through its `Field Studies`. The `Sixth Field Study` by the RBI was conducted in January-April,2001. This Study covered 2500 borrowers under the PMRY, financed by 202 bank branches located in 66 districts. Based on the feed back received from various sources, the Scheme is monitored regularly at the Central, State and District level by Committees set up for the purpose.
ANNEXURE-I
ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART a) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.987 TO
BE ANSWERED ON 06.03.2002 RAISED BY PROF.UMMAREDDY VENKATESHWARLU.
PLAN TARGET UNDER THE PRIME MINISTER`S ROZGAR YOJANA (PMRY) FOR THE YEAR 2001-2002
Sl. STATE/UT PLAN TARGET No. (NOS)
1 Andhra Pradesh 16600 2 Assam 6600 3 Arunachal Pradesh 150 4 Bihar 18000 5 Delhi 4600 6 Goa 500 7 Gujarat 8150 +4000 @ 8 Haryana 4400 9 Himachal Pradesh 2600 10 Jammu & Kashmir 1300 11 Karnataka 10700 12 Kerala 14700 13 Madhya Pradesh 14100 14 Maharashtra 22300 15 Manipur 1100 16 Meghalaya 350 17 Mizoram 250 18 Nagaland 250 19 Orissa 7050 20 Punjab 4200 21 Rajasthan 8200 22 Tamil Nadu 18550 23 Tripura 800 24 Uttar Pradesh 25100 25 West Bengal 22000 26 Andaman & Nicobar 100 27 Chandigarh 300 28 Daman & Diu 50 29 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 50 30 Lakshadweep 50 31 Pondicherry 450 32 Sikkim 50 33 Uttaranchal 1000 34 Jharkhand 3000 35 Chhattisgarh 2500 TOTAL 220100 + 4000
@ Additional target for earthquake affected districts