Poverty Alleviation Programmes; Area Development Programmes; Women Development Programmes; Agricultural Development Programmes Implemented By State Department Of Agriculture

1. Poverty Alleviation Programmes; Area
Development Programmes; Women
Development Programmes; Agricultural
Development Programmes Implemented By
State Department Of Agriculture

2. Contents
• Poverty Alleviation Programmes
– IRDP, PMGSY, CAPART, NREGP
• Area Development Programmes
– DPAP,DDP,HADP,TN-IAMWARM
• Women Development Programmes
-TANWA, DWCRA, MSY, RMK
• Agricultural Development Programmes
Implemented By The State Department Of
Agriculture.

3. Poverty Alleviation Programmes

4. Integrated Rural Development
Programme
• The Integrated Rural Development
Programme (IRDP) is a rural development
program of the Government of India launched
in financial year 1978 and extended
throughout India by 1980.
• It is a self-employment program intended to
raise the income-generation capacity of target
groups among the poor.

5. • The target group consists largely of small and
marginal farmers, agricultural labourers and
rural artisans living below the poverty line.
• Within the target group, there is an assured
coverage of 50 per cent for Scheduled Castes
and Scheduled Tribes, 40 per cent for women
and 3 per cent for the physically handicapped.

6. Objectives
• To provide suitable income-generating assets
through a mix of subsidy and credit to below-
poverty-line families with a view to bring them
above the poverty line.
• This development program played an important
role in increased agricultural production by
educating farmers and providing them with
financial and other inputs to increase yields.

7. • The IRDP was proposed to provide self-
employment opportunities to the rural poor
through provision of capital subsidy and bank
credit so as to help rural poor acquire
productive income-generating assets and
training to upgrade their skills.

8. PRADHAN MANTRI GRAM SADAK
YOJANA (PMGSY)
• Launched on 25th December 2000 -fully funded
Centrally Sponsored Scheme to provide road
connectivity in rural areas of the country.
• The programme envisages connecting all
habitations with a population of 500 persons and
above in the plain areas and 250 persons and
above in hill States, the tribal and the desert
areas.

9. Salient Features of PMGSY
• About 1.67 lakh Unconnected Habitations are eligible
for coverage under the programme.
• This involves construction of about 3.71lakh km. of
roads for New Connectivity and 3.68 lakh km. under
upgradation.
• Only village roads and Other District Roads in the
PMGSY ambit-Major District Roads, State Highways
and National Highways not covered in PMGSY
99

10. Council For Advancement Of People’s
Action & Rural Technology (CAPART)
Government of India, in September, 1986 set up
the CAPART
Objectives of the CAPART
• To encourage, promote and assist voluntary
action for the implementation of projects
intending enhancement of rural prosperity.
• To Strengthen and promote voluntary efforts in
rural development with focus on injecting new
technological inputs;

11. • To act as a catalyst for the development of
technology appropriate for rural areas.
• To promote, plan, undertake, develop,
maintain and support projects/schemes aimed
at all-round development, creation of
employment opportunities, promotion of self-
reliance, generation of awareness,
organisation and improvement in the quality of
life of the people in rural areas through
voluntary action.

12. Focus groups…
• people below the poverty line
• people belonging to the scheduled castes and
tribes
• bonded labour and women
• people with disabilities

13. Goal…
• Implementing projects for sustainable development in
rural areas
• To act as a national nodal point for development and
promotion of appropriate rural technologies.
• voluntary action and people's participation for rural
development
• To act as a data bank and clearing house

14. • Facilitating community action for
development.
• Building awareness on critical development
issues
• Building and strengthening village-level
people and organisations

15. Regional Centres
9 Regional Committees/Regional Centres
The Regional Committee are empowered to
sanction project proposals to voluntary agencies
up to an outlay of Rs. 10.00 lakh in their
respective regions.

16. Monitoring & Evaluation
CAPART has fairly well developed monitoring
system.
CAPART projects are monitored with the help of
its own officers and external monitors.
Three different stages:-
• Pre funding appraisal
• Mid terms appraisal
• Post Evaluation

17. NREGP
NREGP was passed by the Government of
India in the year 2005.
In order to empower the rural labourers
with right to get employment of 100days per year
per family during off-season.
It was launched in Anantapur District on
February 2nd, 2006 by the Prime Minister
Dr.Manmohan Singh, came into effect from 1-4-
2006 in 200 drought prone and backward
districts in India.

18. Objectives
It is a programme designed to create rural
infrastructure like roads, watersheds, small tank
structures, address natural resource management
and much more.
These activities can help to increase farm
productivity along with provision of wages to the
rural poor.

19. Rural crisis
Growing unemployment and underemployment
Falling purchasing power
Declining per capita availability of food grains
Reduced farm incomes and real wage growth
Indebtedness and land alienation, especially for
small and marginal farmers.

20. Deceleration in agricultural growth, productivity
per worker and rural non-agricultural employment
growth
Slackening pace of poverty reduction and
worsening poverty amongst marginalized social groups
and ethnic minorities

22. DROUGHT PRONE AREA
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (DPAP)
• The programme was first launched by GOI during
1973-74, to address special problems of drought prone
areas.
Objectives
• To minimize the adverse effects of drought on the
production of crops, livestock and productivity of land,
water and human resources with drought proofing
techniques.
• To promote the over economic development and
improve the socio-economic conditions of vulnerable
groups.

23. • Based on the recommendations of
Hanumantha Rao committee (1994) the
programme has been under implementation on
watershed basis since 1995.
• The programme is under implementation in
972 blocks of 182 districts in 16 States.
• The allocation for the programme is shared in
the ratio of 75:25 between the centre and state.
• These projects shall cover an area of 12.75
lakh hectare, and the total cost for these
projects is Rs.765.00 crore involving Central
share of Rs.573.75 crore.

24. Water Conservation under DPAP

25. Desert Development Programme (DDP)
The Desert Development Programme (DDP) was
started in the year 1977-78.
Objectives
• To mitigate the adverse effects of desertification and
adverse climatic conditions on crops, human and livestock
population, combating desertification.
• To restore ecological balance by harnessing, conserving
and developing natural resources i.e. land, water,
vegetative cover and rising land productivity.
• To implement developmental works through the watershed
approach, for land development, water resource
development and afforestation/pasture development

26. The programme is under implementation in
235 blocks of 40 districts in 7 States.
A Source of Irrigation - Developed under DDP

27. Scope
• It is a people's programme with Government
assistance and special arrangement for
maintenance of assets.
• Social audit is done by Panchayat Raj
institutions.

28. • All categories of land belonging to Gram
Panchayats, Government and individual
failing within the limits of the project area can
be developed.

29. Hill Area Development Programme(HADP)
• The Hill Area Development Programme, introd
uced in Nilgiris District since the year 1975,i
s funded by the Government of India to sup
plement the plan resources of the state by
providing Special Central Assistance.
OBJECTIVES:
• The main objective of HADP is eco-restoration,
eco- development and eco preservation.

30. 1. To preserve and conserve grasslands of Nilgiris.
2. Development of land use plan for forest area as well
as cultivated areas.
3. Conserve soil and water to increase productivity of
theland by using vegetative methods and changing the
cropping pattern.
4. Promote non-land based economic activities to uplift
the poor people and to ensure environment
Protection.
5. Economic up-liftment of tribals in isolated
locations, settlements.

31. 6. To evolve a comprehensive human settlement
policy and discourage migration.
7. "Area based Approach" adopted and integrated
plans to be prepared for all watersheds and
high priority watershed shall be chosen for
treatment.
8. Use of scientific interventions will be
encouraged i.e. Application of Remote sensing,
etc.,
9. Promotion of Non-Conventional Energy sources
i.e. Solar, Hydro, Bio-gas, etc.,

32. Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agricultural Modernization And
Water Bodies Restoration And Management ( TN-
IAMWARM)
Irrigated Agricultural Modernization and Water-
Bodies Restoration and Management (IAMWARM) – ‘a
multidimensional project that envisages to bringing
about positive changes in the context of Irrigated
Agriculture and Farm ecology & economics, involving
multiple stake-holders both at facilitation and
implementation levels’– has been planned to be
implemented in 63 Sub-basin in Tamil Nadu.

33. This is a unique project integrating the activities
of the eight departments in the Water Sector ( viz,
PWD/WRO, Agri-Engineering, Agriculture, Agri-
Marketing, Horticulture, TNAU, Animal Husbandry
and Fisheries ) with the main objective of improving
the irrigation service delivery including adaptation of
modern water saving irrigation technologies and
Agricultural practices and with ultimate vision of the
enhanced farmer income .

34. The project covers an area of 6.17 lakhs
hectares spread over 63 sub basins out of
127 sub-basins in the State (Government of
Tamil Nadu, 2008).
One of the important components under
TN-IAMWARM is the System of Rice
Intensification.

35. Women Development Programmes

36. Tamil Nadu Women in Agriculture (TANWA)
TANWA has been operational since October
1986.
The project was initially implemented in six
districts of Tamil Nadu and then expanded into ten
districts.
Phase II of this Project is was initiated in 1993
covering all the districts (except Chennai).

37. Objectives
• To increase agricultural productivity and to improve the
economic and food security of small and marginal women
farmers.
• Enable women farmers to choose and adopt relevant
agricultural technologies and practices.
• To disseminate agricultural knowledge and skills from women
farmers to fellow women farmers.
• To improve women’s access to and improve their ability to use
existing agricultural services

38. Village based training programmes were also planned
and conducted on the following aspects:
• Increasing fertiliser use efficiency
• Organic manure conservation (FYM, compost
enriched FYM)
• Use of bio-fertiliser
• Tree cropping
• Field identification of pest/diseases
• Seed treatment
• Rat control
• Grain storage
• Crop wise fertiliser application and plant protection
measures
• Communication skills

39. DWCRA
Development of women and children in Rural
Areas (DWCRA) was launched as a sub scheme of
IRDP(Integrated Rural Development Programme)
during the year 1982-83.
IRDP was found to be not making much
impact as expected on rural women. So, DWCRA
with exclusive focus on economic empowerment of
women provides all these inputs by considering
women as critical to development DWCRA was
introduced for ensuring that the benefits of IRDP
reach to women directly.

40. The programme seeks to improve the
access of rural women to health, education, safe
drinking water, sanitation, nutrition etc. thereby
bringing about an enhancement in the quality of
general well-being of women & children. About
DWCRA
DWCRA --- motto of “Save a Rupee per
Day”.

41. Objectives
The primary objective of the scheme is to focus
attention on the women members of rural families below
the poverty line to provide them the opportunities of
self-employment on a sustained basis.
To improve the quality of life of women and
children.
To provide an opportunity for income generating
activities for individual through a group of women by
building the existing skills and occupations , utilization
of locally available resources and providing suitable
marketing facilities.

42. To provide the market for the handcrafts products
and un-organised FMCG products.
To involve rural women to understand the
importance of the hygienic products in the markets by
providing sample sachets, instalment buying of
household goods etc.

43. MSY – Mahila Samridhi Yojana
• The programme was launched in Oct,
1993 through a network of rural post
offices in the country.
• It aims at promoting self-reliance and a
measure of economic independence
among rural women by encouraging
among them the habit of thrift
(Publication Division, 1995).

44. • The most effective strategy to reach the
women and strengthening them should
include:-
i) capacity building through increasing
income generating skills/activities;
ii) encouraging them to form SHGs and
provide them micro credit support;
iii) setting up of production based activity
suitable to women.

45. SCOPE OF THE SCHEME
• A group of 20 women of minority
communities at any location are given
training in any production/ service activity,
most suitable for them.
• During the training, the group is formed into
a Self Help Group practicing thrift & credit.
• After the training, the group is provided
credit, jointly or individually, for pursuing
the activity of training.

46. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR THE
BENEFICIARIES
• Women candidates belonging to minority
communities with preference to widows and
destitutes.
• Preference to women already having some
knowledge of the trade.
• Age 16-30 years
• Fulfill income criterion of below double the
poverty line.

47. RMK – Rashtriya Mahila Kosh
• A national credit fund for women called
Rashtriya Mahila Kosh was set up in 1992-
93.
• Under the agencies of Department of Women
and Child Development, Ministry of Human
and Resource Development, New Delhi.
• It was registered under Society Registeration
Act 21, 1860. The area of operation of the
Kosh covers whole of India.

48. • The major objective of meeting the credit
needs of the poor women, particularly in
the informal sector.
• The kosh provides credit to non-
government organization in various parts
of the country.

49. • it aims to raise the capacity of women by
enhancing through productivity and
economic self- reliance.
• It has provided credits to over 2.32 lakh
women since its inception from 1993.
• It encourages formation of Self Help Groups
(SHGs) for promotion of thrift and credit
leading to income generation activities.

50. • To promote or undertake activities for the promotion of
or to provide credit as an instrument of socio-economic
change and development through the provision of a
package of financial and social development services for
the development of women.
• To demonstrate and replicate participatory approaches
in the organization of women’s groups for
effective utilization of credit resources leading to self-
reliance.

51. • To promote and support the expansion of
entrepreneurship skills among women.
• To cooperate with and secure the cooperation of
the Central Government, State Governments and
Union Territory Administration, credit
institutions, industrial and commercial
organisations and non-governmental, voluntary
and other organisations and bodies in promoting
the objects of the Kosh.

52. Agricultural Development Programmes
Implemented By State Department Of
Agriculture

53. • Schemes under Tamil Nadu Watershed
Development Agency (TAWDEVA)
• Tamil Nadu Agricultural Labourers - Farmers
(Social Security and Welfare) Scheme, 2006
• Integrated Horticulture Development Scheme
• Land Purchase Scheme for Scheduled
Caste/Tribe Women
• Tamil Nadu Women In Agri Business And
Extension (TANWABE)

54. Tamil Nadu Agricultural Labourers - Farmers
(Social Security and Welfare) Scheme
• 2006
• Based on this, it has been prepared for uplift
of the agricultural labourers, farmers and
registered tenants and their dependents in
social, educational and economic status.
• Beneficiaries -Family,Women,Children.

55. Integrated Horticulture Development
Scheme
• Under this scheme, planting materials and high
yielding or hybrid vegetable seeds are distributed to
horticultural farmers at 50 percent subsidized cost.
• Farmers
• 01 / 01 / 2002

56. Land Purchase Scheme for Scheduled
Caste/Tribe Women
• The Land Purchase Scheme aims to provide
agricultural land and various other
agricultural inputs, to landless, small and
marginal female farmers belonging to
scheduled castes and tribes.
• BeneficiariesCommunity,Women and farmers
• 2002

57. Tamil Nadu Women In Agri Business
And Extension (TANWABE)
• May 07, 2012
a) Formation of 10 new groups per district and
entrepreneurial training for 3 days including field
visit
1) Stipend to the participants 200/- per day per
participant.
2) Training material 20/- per participant.
b) Back ended subsidy for establishing micro
enterprises - 15,000/- per group.

58. c) Distribution of farm machineries, tools and
implements - Distribution of power tillers with
a capacity of 8 HP and above 5 nos./ district at
40percent subsidy limited to 45000/ power
tiller.