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Modi govt's village adoption scheme 'a failure': Rural Development Ministry
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheme for development of villages has not made any perceptible impact or achieving its desired purpose and, therefore, it should be reviewed, a performance audit by the Rural Development Ministry has suggested
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheme for development of villages has not made any perceptible impact or achieving its desired purpose and, therefore, it should be reviewed, a performance audit by the Rural Development Ministry has suggested. The Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) was announced by Modi in his first Independence Day speech as Prime Minister on August 15, 2014.
Meanwhile, an FIR was filed against Scroll journalist Supriya Sharma and the website's chief editor was for their article 'In Varanasi village adopted by Prime Minister Modi, people went hungry during lockdown'.
The FIR was filed on June 13 under Sections 269 and 501 of the IPC, as well as under the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act). Sharma has been booked for allegedly "defaming" a woman by writing a story on the lockdown's adverse impact on the poor in a village adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi under SAGY.
As per the scheme, every MP has to adopt a village and develop it into a model village under the scheme, which was launched on October 11, 2014, in its five phases. Many MPs, including some ministers, have not adopted villages in either one or more phases so far, according to sources.
The Centre had constituted a common review commission for performance audit to evaluate the proper implementation and effectiveness of various welfare schemes under the Rural Development Ministry.
In its report, the CRM said there was no dedicated funding for the SAGY and funds had to be arranged through convergence. Its teams visited the states and did not find any "significant impact" of this scheme.
Even in villages adopted by MPs under this scheme, they did not allocate enough funds from the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS), the CRM said.
"In isolated cases, where MPs have been pro-active, some infrastructure development has taken place, but the scheme has not made any perceptible impact," the CRM said in its report.
