1 National Rural Employment Programme.
2 Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme.
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19.41 Per capita assistance which was only Rs. 120 in 1972 was stepped up from time to time and the present rate of Rs. 250 per head was fixed in 1984. Since than many State Governments have considered this quantum inadequate, and it has been decided to step up the per capita expenditure to Rs. 300. The total outlay under Environmental Improvement of Urban Slums Scheme in the State Plans works out to Rs. 269.55 crores. On the basis of per capita expenditure of Rs. 300, this outlay would benefit about 9 million slum-dwellers during the Seventh Plan, leaving a balance of 8.5 million to be attended to in the subsequent Plan.
19.42 Nutrition: The two components of the Nutrition programme, viz., Special Nutrition Programme and Midday Meals would be continued during the Seventh Plan. The Special Nutrition Programme, besides continuing the nutrition support to 11 million eligible people, would be further expanded to cover all the additional Integrated Child Development Scheme projects during the Seventh Plan. Measures would be taken to bring Special Nutrition Programme centres either within the ambit of the Integrated Child Development Scheme programme or to upgrade them by linking with other inputs like health, sanitation, hygiene, water supply and education.
19.43 Attempts would be made to ensure uninterrupted supply of required nutrition material for specified days in all the anganwadis/SNP centres. The unit costs would be revised to ensure required nutrients to the beneficiaries.
19.44 Under the Mid-day Meals (MDM) programme for school- going childern, 20 million students were getting nutrition support at the end of the Sixth Plan. During the Seventh Plan, stress would be laid on the consolidation of the programme, by linking it with other inputs of health, potable water and improvement in environmental sanitation, rather than on numerical expansion.
19.45 The total outlay for the Seventh Plan has been fixed at Rs. 1731.73 crores as against the anticipated expenditure of Rs. 397 crores during the Sixth Plan.
19.46 Rural domestic cooking energy.- Cooking energy forms nearly half of the total energy consumed in the country. The main sources of cooking energy in the rural areas are non-commercial, e.g., firewood, crop-waste and animal dung. The supply of these sources is rapidly dwindling and the Report of the Fuel Wood Committee (1 982) has stated that fuel to cook food may soon become a greater constraint than the availability of food itself. Therefore, the two schemes of Rural Fuel Wood Plantation and provision of improved Chullahs which were in operation in the Sixth Plan, are proposed to be integrated and made an additional component of the Minimum Needs Programme during the Seventh Plan.
19.47 The programme of fuel wood plantation during the Seventh Plan would include distribution of about 100 crore seedlings to benefit at least 2 million rural families. It would be ensured that households covered by the scheme are provided adequate fuel-wood for meeting cooking needs. The programme would be extended from 157 districts in the Sixth Plan to all the fuel wood-deficient districts in the Seventh Plan. Under the improved chullah programme, at least 50 lakh chullahs would be installed against an estimate of 8 lakh chullahs in the Sixth Plan. Programme also envisages organisation of training courses in each district and improving the design and thermal efficiency of chullahs through applied research projects. Improved chullahs would be popularised among rural households through provision of appropriate subsidies and financial incentives.
19.48 An outlay of Rs. 165 crores has been provided for the Rural Fuel Wood Plantation Scheme in the Seventh Plan as against an outlay of Rs. 97.2 crores in the Sixth Plan. Rs. 25 crores have been provided for improved chullahs scheme in the Seventh Plan as against an outlay of about Rs. 6 crores in the Sixth Plan. These two schemes would be closely coordinated with the Rural Development Programme.
19.49 A suitable monitoring system would be deployed for ensuring that the two schemes are effectively coordinated and complement each other at the grass-root level.
19.50 Annexure 19.1 brings out the objectives and targets to be achieved by the end of the Seventh Plan under various programmes included under MNP. Annexure 19.2 shows the Seventh Plan outlays provided for MNP in different States.
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ANNEXURE-19.1
Minimum Needs Programme
Head Objectives Target by 1990
1. Elementary Education 100 per enrolment in the A target of 25.53 million
age-group 6-14 year by 1990. children for non-formal
It would be supplemnted with education has been fixed.
non-formal education.
2. Adult Education 100 per cent coverage of adults No traget fixed
in the age-group 15-35 years
by 1990 through non-formal
education.
3. Rural Health 1. Establishment of none sub- To establish 54000 sub-
centre for a population of centres in addition to
5000 in the plains and 3000 83000 existing sub-centres
in tribal and hilly areas by so as to achieve the
2000 AD. objective fully.
2. One PHC for 30,000 popul- To establish 12,000 PHCs in
ation in plains and 20,000 addition to the existing
in tribal and hilly areas by 11,000 with a view to ach-
20000 AD. ieving the target fully.
3. Establishment of one In addition to the existing
Community Health Centre for 649 CHCs, 1553 more CHCs
a popultion of one lakh or would be established for
one CD Block by 2000 AD. achieving 40.65 per cent
of the target.
4. Rural Water supply Coverage of all the
remainig 39,000 problem
villages as priority item,
after which other village
with inadequate supply of
water will be taken up.
5. Rural Roads Linking up all remaining A normative target of 20487
villages with a population villages has been fixed
of 15000 and above and 50 having a population of 1500
per cent of the total number and above and 3851 villages
of villages with population having population of 1000
of 1000 to 1500 by 1990. to 1500.
6. Rural Electrification At least 65 percent of the A minimum coverage of 65
village in each State and UT per cent of the villages
to be electrified by 1990. is aimed at by all State
and UTs at the end of
1989-90.
7. Housing Assistance to Povision of housing ass- Coverage of the remaining
Rural Landles Laboures istance to all landless 0.72 million households
labour households by 1990. for allotment of house
Assistance to include house sites to achieve 100 per
site construction materials, cent traget and provision
drinking water well for a assistance to 2.71 million
cluster of houses and approach families already having
roads. housing sites.
8. Environmental Impro- 100 per cent coverage of urban 9 million slum-dwellers out
vement of Urban slum population by 1990. Faci- of the remaining 17.5
Slums lities include water supply, million would be covered
sewerage paving of streets, under the Programme.
storm water drainage, community
laterines. Areas inhabited by
Scheduled Castes, particularly
scavengers, to be given priority.
9. Nutrition Nutrition support would be
contiued to 11 million
elegible persons and the
SNP will be expanded to
all the ICDS Project.
MDM programme will be
consolidated and linked
to health, potable water
and sanitation
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