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Rural Development - Nagaland State Information Commission

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<strong>Information</strong> on Right To <strong>Information</strong> Version 05.11<br />

3.5.1 Employment Details:<br />

a) No. of Total Jobcards issued till Feb. 2011. - 3,33,690<br />

b) No. of Households provided wage employment<br />

till Feb. 2011. - 2,74,580<br />

c) No. of Total Mandays generated till Feb. 2011. - 1,12,50,100<br />

3.5.2 Assets created:<br />

a) <strong>Rural</strong> Connectivity - 7465 Nos.<br />

b) Flood Control and Protection - 349 Nos.<br />

c) Water Conservation & Water Harvesting - 599 Nos.<br />

d) Drought proofing - 461 Nos.<br />

e) Micro irrigation works - 950 Nos.<br />

f) Renovation of Traditional water bodies - 52 Nos.<br />

g) Land <strong>Development</strong> - 616 Nos.<br />

h) Provision of irrigation facilities to land owned by - 13 Nos<br />

IAY and small marginal farmers<br />

Others - 563 Nos.<br />

Total - 11068 Nos<br />

4. INDIRA AWAAS YOJANA (IAY):<br />

4.1 The Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for providing<br />

housing to the BPL Households in the rural areas. The Scheme is funded on the costsharing<br />

basis between the Centre and the <strong>State</strong> in the ratio of 90:10.<br />

4.2 The objective of the programme is to ensure that the shelter-less poor people in the<br />

villages are provided with permanent shelter. The Department has been implementing<br />

the programme through the Village <strong>Development</strong> Boards.<br />

4.3 During 2010-11, the Ministry of RD, Gol has released ` 3655.059 lakhs for 11<br />

(eleven) DRDAs in the <strong>State</strong> as Central share of assistance. The <strong>State</strong> has also<br />

released `631.624 lakhs as its Matching Share to the DRDAs which includes<br />

`103.22 lakhs being the back-log of 2009-10<br />

4.4 All together 12,415 no. of Houses has been constructed for the BPL households/<br />

beneficiaries in the rural areas and another 893 are under process for allocation to the<br />

beneficiaries.<br />

5. GRANTS-IN-AID TO VDBs (GIA)<br />

5.1 The Grant-in-Aid to VDBs is one of the major <strong>State</strong> sponsored schemes being<br />

implemented through 1128 Village <strong>Development</strong> Boards (VDBs) with 2,23,181 rural<br />

Households in the <strong>State</strong>. Funds under the programme are allocated on the basis of<br />

number of tax-paying households of the village. Sub-allocation are made to ensure<br />

the involvement of Women and Youths in the rural development activity by<br />

earmarking 25% and 20% respectively for taking up activities that is suitable for their<br />

needs. In addition, a mandatory scheme called VDB Welfare Fund is in place.<br />

Under this sector, funds are deposited @ ` 10,000/- for villages having 50<br />

households and below and `200/- per household for villages having 51 households<br />

and above from the general allocation to mobilize resources for the VDBs to<br />

supplement their activity. The deposits are made for a period of 6 years and at<br />

maturity, the interest accrued is utilized for the scheme and the seed money is<br />

reinvested thereby a continuous cycle of resource is created to supplement the grants<br />

provided by the <strong>State</strong>. Under this scheme, income generating programmes is being<br />

emphasized to be implemented to improve the economy of the rural areas.<br />

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