MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION; MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFAIRS
(RAO INDERJIT SINGH)
(a) & (b) Aspirational Districts Programme was launched in 2018 to bring rapid transformation in the relatively underdeveloped Districts. There are 112 Aspirational Districts, across 26 States and 1 Union Territory. Among the 112 Aspirational Districts eight (8) districts from Madhya Pradesh, West Singhbhum from Jharkhand (along with eighteen (18) other Districts from the State of Jharkhand) and Districts of Baramulla and Kupwara from the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir are covered under the Programme. These were selected through a transparent process on basis of published data. List of Aspirational Districts as well as the data sets and the weight attached to them for selection of these districts is attached in Annexure - I. As per this method, the districts which were selected as Aspirational Districts had overall lesser progress than Supaul district in 2018 and as such, Supaul has not been included.
(c) The Government provides broad framework for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 (‘Act’), Schedule VII of the Act and Companies (CSR Policy) Rules, 2014. As per the legal framework, CSR is a board driven process and Board of the Company is empowered to plan, decide, execute and monitor CSR activities based on recommendation of its CSR Committee. The CSR architecture is disclosure based and CSR mandated companies are required to file details of CSR initiatives annually in MCA21 registry. All data related to CSR (State/UT-wise, development sector wise, company wise as well as district wise) as filed by companies in MCA 21 registry is available in public domain at www.csr.gov.in.
(d) The CSR spent in aspirational districts for the financial year 2019-20 and 2020-21 (district wise and sector wise) is at Annexure II.
(e) Section 135 of the Act was amended vide Companies (Amendment) Act, 2019 and Companies (Amendment) Act, 2020. These amendments provided for the transfer of unspent CSR amount pertaining to ongoing projects in a special account, namely, Unspent CSR account and spending the same in succeeding three financial years. Further, non-compliance of CSR provisions is also made as a civil wrong w. e. f. 22nd January 2021.
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Annexure – I
List of 112 Aspirational Districts
S. No. State District
1 Andhra Pradesh Vizianagaram
2 Andhra Pradesh Visakhapatnam
3 Andhra Pradesh Y.S.R. Kadapa
4 Arunachal Pradesh Namsai
5 Assam Goalpara
6 Assam Barpeta
7 Assam Hailakandi
8 Assam Baksa
9 Assam Darrang
10 Assam Udalguri
11 Assam Dhubri
12 Bihar Sitamarhi
13 Bihar Araria
14 Bihar Purnia
15 Bihar Katihar
16 Bihar Muzaffarpur
17 Bihar Begusarai
18 Bihar Khagaria
19 Bihar Banka
20 Bihar Sheikhpura
21 Bihar Aurangabad
22 Bihar Gaya
23 Bihar Nawada
24 Bihar Jamui
25 Chhattisgarh Korba
26 Chhattisgarh Rajnandgaon
27 Chhattisgarh Mahasamund
28 Chhattisgarh Kanker
29 Chhattisgarh Narayanpur
30 Chhattisgarh Dantewada
31 Chhattisgarh Bijapur
32 Chhattisgarh Bastar
33 Chhattisgarh Kondagaon
34 Chhattisgarh Sukma
35 Gujarat Dahod
36 Gujarat Narmada
37 Haryana Mewat
38 Himachal Pradesh Chamba
39 UT of Jammu & Kashmir Kupwara
40 UT of Jammu & Kashmir Baramulla
41 Jharkhand Garhwa
42 Jharkhand Chatra
43 Jharkhand Giridih
44 Jharkhand Godda
45 Jharkhand Sahibganj
46 Jharkhand Pakur
47 Jharkhand Bokaro
48 Jharkhand Lohardaga
49 Jharkhand Purbi Singhbhum
50 Jharkhand Palamu
51 Jharkhand Latehar
52 Jharkhand Hazaribagh
53 Jharkhand Ramgarh
54 Jharkhand Dumka
55 Jharkhand Ranchi
56 Jharkhand Khunti
57 Jharkhand Gumla
58 Jharkhand Simdega
59 Jharkhand Pashchimi Singhbhum
60 Karnataka Raichur
61 Karnataka Yadgir
62 Kerala Wayanad
63 Madhya Pradesh Chhatarpur
64 Madhya Pradesh Damoh
65 Madhya Pradesh Barwani
66 Madhya Pradesh Rajgarh
67 Madhya Pradesh Vidisha
68 Madhya Pradesh Guna
69 Madhya Pradesh Singrauli
70 Madhya Pradesh Khandwa
71 Maharashtra Nandurbar
72 Maharashtra Washim
73 Maharashtra Gadchiroli
74 Maharashtra Osmanabad
75 Manipur Chandel
76 Meghalaya Ribhoi
77 Mizoram Mamit
78 Nagaland Kiphire
79 Odisha Dhenkanal
80 Odisha Gajapati
81 Odisha Kandhamal
82 Odisha Balangir
83 Odisha Kalahandi
84 Odisha Rayagada
85 Odisha Koraput
86 Odisha Malkangiri
87 Odisha Nabarangpur
88 Odisha Nuapada
89 Punjab Moga
90 Punjab Firozpur
91 Rajasthan Dholpur
92 Rajasthan Karauli
93 Rajasthan Jaisalmer
94 Rajasthan Sirohi
95 Rajasthan Baran
96 Sikkim West Sikkim
97 Tamil Nadu Virudhunagar
98 Tamil Nadu Ramanathapuram
99 Telangana Asifabad
100 Telangana Bhoopalapally
101 Telangana Bhadradri-Kothagudem
102 Tripura Dhalai
103 Uttar Pradesh Chitrakoot
104 Uttar Pradesh Fatehpur
105 Uttar Pradesh Bahraich
106 Uttar Pradesh Shrawasti
107 Uttar Pradesh Balrampur
108 Uttar Pradesh Siddharthnagar
109 Uttar Pradesh Chandauli
110 Uttar Pradesh Sonbhadra
111 Uttarakhand Udham Singh Nagar
112 Uttarakhand Haridwar
List of data sets and weights used for selection of Aspirational Districts
DATABASES SECTOR WEIGHT
Landless households dependent on Manual labour
(Socio Economic Caste Census – Deprivation 7) Deprivation
(25%) 25%
Ante natal care
(National Health and Family Survey (NHFS) - 4)
Health & Nutrition
(30%) 7.5%
Institutional delivery (NHFS-4) 7.5%
Stunting of children below 5 years (NHFS-4) 7.5%
Wasting in children below 5 years (NHFS-4) 7.5%
Elementary dropout rate (Unified District Information System for Education (U-DISE) 2015-16) Education
(15%) 7.5%
Adverse pupil teacher ratio (U-DISE 2015-16) 7.5%
Un-electrified households (Ministry of Power)
Infra
(30%) 7.5%
Households without individual toilets
(Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation) 7.5%
Un-connected PMGSY village
(Ministry of Rural Development) 7.5%
Rural Household without access to water
(Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation) 7.5%
Total 100%
Annexure II
District-wise details of CSR in Aspirational Districts for FY 2019-20 and FY 2020-21
Aspirational District FY 2019-20 FY 2020-21
Kadapa 3.17 1.49
Visakhapatnam 26.05 38.89
Vizianagaram 2.49 2.16
Namsai 0 0
Baksa 0.23 0
Barpeta 13.89 4.73
Darrang 15.61 3.48
Dhubri 2.88 0.02
Goalpara 0 0
Hailakandi 0 0
Udalguri 0 0
Araria 0.11 0
Aurangabad 0.80 1.23
Banka 0 0.02
Begusarai 3.50 3.26
Gaya 2.17 1.05
Jamui 0.44 0
Katihar 0.06 0.23
Khagaria 0 0
Muzaffarpur 0.73 3.24
Nawada 2.13 0
Purnia 0 0.14
Sitamarhi 4.79 0
Bastar 0 4.98
Bijapur 0 1.79
Dantewada 0 12.13
Kanker 0 0.09
Korba 15.25 17.82
Mahasamund 1.78 0
Narayanpur 2.20 1.99
Rajnandgaon 4.82 2.77
Sukma 0.23 1.19
Dahod 31.36 92.50
Narmada 1.81 0.73
Mewat 3.36 4.23
Chamba 0.21 5.71
Baramulla 0 11.01
Bokaro 1.99 0.10
Chatra 0 0.20
Dumka 0.73 1.50
East Singhbhum 6.90 11.98
Giridih 1.48 1.13
Godda 7.95 2.70
Gumla 0.25 0.26
Hazaribagh 1.09 1.26
Khunti 0.21 1.42
Latehar 0 0
Pakur 0 0.50
Palamu 2.36
Ramgarh 0.12 0.38
Ranchi 6.90 5.79
Sahebganj 0.01 0.18
Simdega 0.03 0.52
West Singhbhum 3.25 1.95
Raichur 4.51 1.72
Yadgir 1.64 0.97
Wayanad 3.05 1.19
Barwani 2.12 0.25
Chhatarpur 0.43 0.21
Damoh 1.69 1.82
Guna 0.53 3.00
Khandwa 12.82 6.99
Rajgarh 1.54 0.27
Singrauli 0.13 72.88
Vidisha 0 0
Gadchiroli 1.38 8.88
Nandurbar 8.71 16.53
Osmanabad 2.66 2.66
Washim 0.48 0.10
Chandel 0.13
Ri Bhoi 0.16 0.00
Balangir 0.06 9.53
Dhenkanal 4.70 3.32
Gajapati 0 0
Kalahandi 10.50 7.27
Kandhamal 1.12 0
Koraput 15.13 13.22
Malkangiri 0.02 0
Nabarangpur 0.01 0
Nuapada 0.30 0.01
Rayagada 6.09 2.66
Firozpur 0.16 0.66
Moga 1.22 0.33
Baran 5.68 0.40
Dholpur 0.52 0.06
Jaisalmer 3.40 0.23
Karauli 3.04 9.13
Sirohi 4.56 2.28
West Sikkim 0 0.50
Ramanathapuram 7.42 13.49
Virudhunagar 13.88 14.66
Bhadradri Kothagudem 3.38 3.60
Asifabad 0 0.04
Dhalai 0.48 0.24
Bahraich 0.33 0.91
Balrampur 0.82 0.91
Chandauli 0 0.89
Chitrakoot 0 0.30
Fatehpur 0.24 0.23
Shravasti 0.01 0.33
Sonbhadra 1.15 25.03
Haridwar 28.07 33.03
Udham Singh Nagar 8.73 8.86
Total 336.32 516.34
(Data upto 31.12.2021)
Sector-wise details of CSR in Aspirational Districts for FY 2019-20 and FY 2020-21
Sl. No Development Sector FY 2019-20 FY 2020-21
1 Agro forestry 0.96 0
2 Animal welfare 1.39 0.72
3 Armed Forces, Veterans, War Widows/ Dependents 0.31 0.12
4 Art and culture 5.23 1.04
5 Clean Ganga Fund 0.01 0
6 Conservation of natural resources 1.42 5.13
7 Education 116.19 169.41
8 Environmental sustainability 7.82 20.32
9 Gender equality 0.60 0.67
10 Health care 101.59 181.52
11 Livelihood enhancement projects 5.53 11.41
12 Other Central Government Funds 1.80 1.21
13 Poverty, Eradicating Hunger, Malnutrition 10.25 11.40
14 Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund 0.64 7.13
15 Rural development projects 22.25 51.08
16 Safe drinking water 8.25 9.00
17 Sanitation 17.50 19.07
18 Senior Citizens Welfare 0.90 2.23
19 Setting up homes and hostels for women 1.14 0.27
20 Setting up orphanage 0.39 0.06
21 Slum area development 0.86 0.38
22 Socio-economic inequalities 1.57 1.06
23 Special education 8.97 1.37
24 Swachh Bharat Kosh 1.96 0.53
25 Technology incubators 0.50 0.05
26 Training to promote sports 7.95 5.71
27 Vocational skills 5.33 13.03
28 Women empowerment 4.99 2.43
Grand Total 336.32 516.34
(Data upto 31.12.2021)
Note 1: Data on the missing eight districts is not available in the filings. As far as blank values are concerned, it is informed that sometimes companies mention a project along with outlay in the filings, however in spent they fill "0" or leave blank.
Note 2: The data for FY 2020-21 is subject to change as the levy of additional fees for the late filing has been relaxed till 15.03.2022. Further, filings for financial year 2021-22 are required to be made only after the end of current financial year.
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