Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana

Brief of the Scheme:

With a view to enable an area based development approach, a new scheme Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) was launched during 2009-10. The Scheme aims at integrated development of Scheduled Castes majority villages.

Objective of Schemes:

The principal objective of the Scheme is integrated development of SC majority Villages:

1. Primarily through convergent implementation of the relevant Central and State/UT Government Schemes; and

2. By taking up identified activities, which do not get covered under the existing Central and State Government Schemes, through ‘Gap-filling’ funds provided as Central Assistance to the extent of Rs.20.00 lakh per village.
   The implementation of the Scheme was started on Pilot basis in 2009-10 and a total of 1000 villages was selected from 05 States namely Tamil Nadu (225), Rajasthan (225), Bihar (225), Himachal Pradesh (225) and Assam (100) were selected for this phase. All these 1000 villages have so far been declared as ‘Adarsh Gram’ by the respective State Governments. During 2014-15, PMAGY was further extended (Phase-I) to cover another 1500 villages across 11 States namely Andhra Pradesh (7), Assam (75), Chhattisgarh (175), Jharkhand (100), Haryana (12), Karnataka (201), Madhya Pradesh (327), Odisha (175), Punjab (162), Telangana (6) and Uttar Pradesh (260). Out of 75 villages selected in Assam, 68 villages were found eligible and out of 12 villages selected in Haryana, only 09 villages found eligible for implementation of scheme. So far, a total of 1184 villages have been declared as ‘Adarsh Gram’ by the respective State Governments.

Beneficiary:

Model Village

Benefits:

Integrated development of Schedule Caste majority villages in four states