(a) the plan outlay for poverty alleviation programmes in the current Five Year Plan;
(b) the percentage of rural population brought above the poverty line during the last
Five Year Plan; and
(c) the State-wise target fixed for poverty alleviation programmes during the current
Five Year Plan?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI PRADEEP JAIN `ADITYA`)
(a) : The Plan outlay for 2012-13, of Ministry of Rural Development is Rs. 73,175 crore.
(b)to(c): The Ministry of Rural Development is implementing a number of schemes with
specific objectives and the persons crossing the poverty line are not assessed in all these
Schemes. However, one of the major Self-Employment Scheme namely Swarnajayanti
Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY)/ National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) has basic
objective to bring the assisted poor families (Swarozgaries) above the poverty line by
providing them income generating assets/micro enterprises in rural areas through a mix of
Bank Credit and Governmental Subsidy. SGSY has been restructured as National Rural
Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) with a view to implement it in a mission mode for targeted
and time bound delivery of results. The concurrent evaluation study conducted by the
Ministry of Rural Development through reputed independent research organizations
during 2007-08 reveals that maximum percentage of individual Swarozgaries and group
Swarozgaries who crossed the poverty line due to SGSY activities is in Gujarat (33.33%)
and Meghalaya (33.86%) respectively. Similarly minimum number of individual and
group Swarozgaries crossing poverty line are in Orissa (14.87%) and Chattisgarh
(14.56%) respectively.