(a) whether the Union Government has received proposals from the State Governments for development of wastelands under Integrated Wasteland Development Programme (IWDP);
(b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise; and
(c) the action taken by the Government thereon?
MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI CHANDRA SEKHAR SAHU)
(a) to (c) The Department of Land Resources is implementing Integrated
Wasteland Development Programme (IWDP) under Hariyali guidelines. New
proposals are sanctioned every year as per the guidelines. Prioritized
lists of districts are invited from the States for this purpose.
New proposals under IWDP are sanctioned from the prioritized 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 prioritized 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.
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 instalment released.
During 2007-08 the prioritized list from the States has not been
invited so far. The State-wise details of projects sanctioned under IWDP
since 1995-96 is at Annexure.