Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana

The plan

Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana was initiated to bring the member of parliament of all the political parties under the same umbrella while taking the responsibility of developing physical and institutional infrastructure in villages and turning them into model villages. Under this yojana, each member of parliament needs to choose one village each from the constituency that they represent, except their village or their in-laws village and fix parameters and make it a model village by 2019.

Thereafter, they can take on two or three more villages and follow the same approach by the time the next general elections come along in 2019, and subsequently, set themselves ten-year village or rural improvement projects. Villages will be offered smart schools, universal access to basic health facilities and Pucca housing to homeless villagers.

Funding

No new funds are allocated to this Yojana, and funds may be raised through:

1. Funds from existing schemes, such as the Indira Awas Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, and Backward Regions Grant Fund, etc..
2. The Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS),
3. The gram panchayat's revenue,
4. Central and State Finance Commission Grants, and
5. Corporate Social Responsibility funds.

Roles and responsibilities of key functionaries

Strategies

To convert the identified village into an Adarsh Gram through the specified activities, the following are the possible strategies:

1. Entry point activities to energise and mobilise the community towards positive common action
2. Participatory planning exercise for identifying people’s needs and priorities in an integrated manner
3. Converging resources from Central Sector and Centrally Sponsored Schemes, and also other State schemes to the extent possible.
4. Repairing and renovating existing infrastructure to the extent possible.
5. Strengthening the Gram Panchayats and people’s institutions within them
6. Promoting transparency and accountability

Adopted Villages

List of a few important adoptions:

• Under the scheme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has adopted Jayapur village his constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. PM Modi has adopted 6 villages as of now. His first four villages were Jayapur, Nagepur, Kakrahia and Domari. Recently, PM Modi adopted 2 more villages, Poore Bariyarpur and Parampur.
• Vikram Usendi has adopted Kapsi village in his Kanker Lok Sabha constituency in Chhattisgarh.
• Y. S. Chowdary has adopted Ponnavaram village in Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh.
• Sonia Gandhi adopted Udwa village in her constituency Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh.
• Rahul Gandhi adopted Deeh village in his constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.
• V. K. Singh adopted Mirpur Hindu in his constituency Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
• Ahmed Patel adopted Vandari village in Rajpipada, Gujarat.
• Sachin Tendulkar adopted Puttamraju vari Kandriga(P.R.Kandriga) a village near Gudur in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh. And Donja village in Osmanabad district of Marathwada, Maharastra.
• Harish Dwivedi adopted Amorha Khas village in Basti district, Uttar Pradesh.
• Kamal Nath adopted Bisapur Kalan village in Chhindwara district, Madhya Pradesh.

Performance

Under Phase 1 (2014–16) of the scheme, nearly 500 out of 543 Lok Sabha MPs and 203 out of 253 Rajya Sabha MPs adopted the village. In Phase 2 (2016–18), the number dipped to 326 Lok Sabha MPs and 121 Rajya Sabha MPs adopting the village. The numbers dipped further in Phase 3 (2017–19). As of February 2018, only 97 Lok Sabha MPs and 27 Rajya Sabha MPs had adopted the village.