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Ministry of Rural Development (India)

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Website
  
rural.nic.in

Headquarters
  
Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi

Minister of state
  
Ram Kripal Yadav

Jurisdiction
  
India

Cabinet minister
  
Narendra Singh Tomar

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Annual budget
  
₹105,447.88 crore (US$16 billion) (2017-18 est.)

Ministers responsible
  
Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Rural DevelopmentRam Kripal Yadav, Minister of State for Rural Development

Programs
  
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

Departments
  
Department of Rural Development, Department of Land Resources

Ministry of rural development india


The Ministry of Rural Development, a branch of the Government of India, is entrusted with the task of accelerating the socio-economic development of rural India. Its focus is on health, education, drinking water, housing and roads.

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History

As of May 2008, the Minister in charge of Rural Development was Vilasrao Deshmukh and Ministers of state were Miss Agatha Sangma, Mr. Shishir Adhikari and Mr. Pradeep Jain Aditya.

On 12 July 2011, the Ministry was given over to Jairam Ramesh, an IIT-B graduate. On 13 July 2011 the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation was separated from the Ministry of Rural Development and named the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitaton. Jairam Ramesh himself assumed additional charge of the Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation.

Shri. Chaudhary Birender Singh was made the Minister of Rural Development, Minister of Panchayati Raj, Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation after NDA came to power in May 2014 LokSabha elections. Shri. Sudarshan Bhagat is the present Minister of State for Rural Development.

On 5 July 2016, during the second cabinet reshuffle of the Narendra Modi ministry, Narendra Singh Tomar replaced Chaudhary Birender Singh as the Minister of Rural Development.

Departments

The ministry has two departments, Department of Rural Development and Department of Land Resources, each headed by a senior civil servant designated as the Secretary of the Deportment. Mrs Anita Choudhry is the Secretary land Resources and Mr Jugal Kishore Mahapatra, a senior bureaucrat from Odisha is the Secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development.

Department of Rural Development

The department run three national-level schemes: Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) for rural roads development, Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) rural emploment and for rural housing, Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY). It handles the administration of District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), and has three autonomous organisations under it:

  • Council of Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART)
  • National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD)
  • National Rural Road Development Agency (NRRDA)

    • The Minister of Rural Development is the Chairman of these three organisations and the Secretary of the Ministry is the Vice Chairman. The Minister is currently Mr Chaudhary Birender Singh, and the Secretary is Subrahmanyam Vijay Kumar.

    Department of Land Resources

    The Department of Land Resources run three national-level programs:

  • Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP)
  • National Land Record Modernisation Programme (NLRMP)
  • Technology Development, Extension & Training Programme (TDET)

    • References

    Ministry of Rural Development (India) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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