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| IAY gets new name, J&K still a failure state in implementation | | RDD ministry callous, inapt! | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 25: Apart from scheme being renamed from Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) to Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Grameen (PMAY-G), Jammu and Kashmir Government's dismal show in the construction of houses in the rural areas continues.
From constructing 1.11 percent of the total number of sanctioned houses in the year 2014-15, J&K failed miserably in meeting the targets set by it. In the year 2015-16, J&K constructed 1788 houses out of the total sanctioned 1955 houses which is just 26.20 percent of the target set by the Rural Development Department of the state government. Though there is improvement but nothing significant has been done by the Rural Development Department.
The situation has improved but due to lax attitude of the Administrative Secretary and Minister for Rural Development Abdul Haq Khan, things have gone from bad to worse on the implementation part. Union Ministry of Rural development has pointed out that factors such as structural deficiencies in fund flow mechanism, weak systems of monitoring, inadequate unit assistance, opaque mechanism for beneficiary selection, absence of technical facilitation and capacity constraints leading to low absorption of funds have resulted in under performance of the centrally sponsored scheme in Jammu and Kashmir.
What to talk of the present Rural Development Ministry headed by Abdul Haq Khan, much worse was the scenario during the tenure of his predecessor Ali Mohammed Sagar in the NC-Congress coalition government. Records with Early Times clearly show that during Sagar's time, the department constructed just 429 houses of the total sanctioned 15952 houses which is just 2.68 percent of the target fixed by the department for the year 2013-14.
There was no improvement in the subsequent year with just 12.87 percent of the target met by the department in the year 2014-15. State has miserably failed to implement this scheme which has the potential of improving the social scenario of people living in the rural areas. The administrative machinery has worked callously and has not bothered to go down to the ground to find out if the eligible beneficiaries are 265002, why even small targets are not being met the department and why the backlog is not cleared immediately.
It needs to be mentioned here that the scheme is centrally sponsored and the State Government manages implementation of the scheme on ground in addition to contributing resources. Fund share between Government of India and Jammu and Kashmir 90:10. Under the scheme, 60 percent of the funds and targets are earmarked for SC/ST and 15 percent for minorities, as the minimum prescribed limit. States are also required to ensure that at least 3 percent of beneficiaries are among persons with disabilities.
Under IAY the focus is on providing housing assistance to the most vulnerable. SC and ST families and families of bonded labourers were covered under the scheme. Later scope of the scheme was extended to cover non-SC/ ST BPL families also. However, to pursue the objective of 'Housing for All by 2022' as envisioned by the government, a proposal for re-structuring the existing rural housing scheme into Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (Grameen) (PMAY-G) was prepared by the Rural Development Ministry and submitted to the Union Cabinet for approval.
The Union Cabinet in its meeting held on March 23, 2016 considered the proposal of PMAY-G and gave approval for implementation of PMAY (G) wherein it has now been decided to provide assistance for construction of 1.00 crore houses in rural areas over the period of 3 years from 2016-17 to 2018-19, Enhancement of unit assistance from Rs. 70,000 to Rs. 1.20 lakh in plain areas and from Rs. 75,000 to Rs.1.30 lakh in hilly States, difficult areas and IAP districts., meeting the additional financial requirement of Rs. 21,975 crore (Rs.60,000 crore from budgetary sources) by borrowing through National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) to be amortised through budgetary allocations after 2022 and using SECC-2011 data for identification of beneficiaries. |
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