MINISTER OF STATE FOR PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS & PLANNING (SHRI RAJEEV SHUKLA)
(a) & (b): Government of India has launched the Bharat Nirman Programme (BNP),
a time bound plan to build rural infrastructure in 2005 for the development of
rural areas of the country. BNP has two Phases- Phase-I of the programme was
implemented in the period 2005-06 to 2008-09. Phase- II is being implemented
from 2009-10 onwards. The BNP has six components of Rural infrastructure namely,
Rural Drinking Water (National Rural Drinking Water Programme), Housing (Indira
Awaas Yojana), Irrigation (Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme), Rural Roads
(Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), Electrification (Rajiv Gandhi Grameen
Vidyutikaran Yojana) and Rural Telephony.
(c) to (e) The physical targets and achievements thereto, relating to the six components
of BNP for all states including States of Bihar, Karnataka and Kerala are annexed. State
specific and component specific variations in achievement against targets have been notified.
The reasons for shortfall are sector specific and inter alia includes (i) lack of
contracting capacity in the States(ii) delay in forest and environment clearance(iii)
prevalence of law and order Problems and non-availability of private land (iv) non-
availability of adequate sub-transmission system in States (v) escalation in cost of
construction and financial viability of the projects(vi) non-availability of homestead
sites to BPL households in case of Indira Awaas Yojana (vii) low quality housing and
inadequate unit cost of housing (viii) lack of capacity of Panchayati Raj Institutions
in maintenance and upkeep of completed water supply schemes and capacity constraints of
the community water users etc.
