(a) the details of progress made under North East Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP), State-wise;
(b) the total number of people skilled under the above mentioned project with State-wise details thereof;
(c) whether the Government intends to introduce more such projects for the development of North East region of the country; and
(d) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?
The Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
[Dr. Jitendra Singh]
(a) North East Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP), a World Bank aided project launched in 2012, was implemented by Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (MDoNER), to improve rural livelihoods especially that of women, unemployed youth and the most disadvantaged people by building community based organizations and developing partnership with Government and other institutions for knowledge, skill, credit, insurance, extension and market. The project covered 1,645 villages under 58 development blocks across 11 districts of 4 states of Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura. The Project has concluded on 30.09.2019 and is running on an extended time upto 31.12.2019 for completion of closure related activities, mainly audit of the scheme. The major achievements of the project are as under:
(i) 10462 boys and girls were trained in various job skills.
(ii) 2,92,889 households were covered through formation of 28,154 Self Help Groups (SHGs) and 1,212 Village Federations, as well as formation of 1599 Community Development Groups (CDG). As a result women have become more enterprising resulting increase in family incomes. State-wise detail of SHGs, CDGs is at Annexure I.
(iii) 97% of the members of SHGs formed by the project have Savings Bank Accounts with a cumulative savings to the tune of Rs.60.51 crores. Project has released a Community Investment Fund (CIF) of Rs.319.15 crores to 28,154 SHGs. A total number of 5,535 SHGs have availed bank linkage with a total sanctioned bank loan amount of Rs.58.19 crores. The average loan amount per SHG from Bank is Rs.1.02 Lakh.
(b) State-wise details of people skilled are as under:
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STATE NUMBER OF PEOPLE TRAINED
Mizoram 1601
Nagaland 1438
Sikkim 3491
Tripura 3932
Total Trained 10462
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(c) & (d) MDoNER has implemented two Livelihood programs, namely, North East Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP) and North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project (NERCORMP). NERLP has concluded on 30thSeptember, 2019 and NERCORMP is scheduled for completion on 31st March, 2020. Ministry of Rural Development has extended its Scheme, DAY-NRLM (Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihood Mission), to all the blocks in all the districts of the North East Region with focus on community mobilisation, institution building and livelihood financing. In order to avoid duplication of efforts and resources, MDONER has decided to restructure the two livelihood programmes of MDoNER i.e. NERLP and NERCORMP by merging them into one and rename the new project as ‘North East Agri-Horticulture and Economic Development Project’.