- Chief Minister Samagra Gramya Unnayan Yojana is a mega mission with a financial outlay INR 30,000 crore.
- It will be implemented in all the villages in Assam in the next five years culminating in 2021-22.
- The main aim of the scheme is to bring revolutionary changes by doubling the farm income and a move to bring about the paradigm shift towards holistic development of villages in Assam.
- It implemented through the saturation model’ by covering each revenue village and through the focused interventions in:
- Direct economic activities,
- Logistic support including market linkages, and
- Community support.
- Scheme has the potential to usher in a new horizon of development. Through this farm income of Assam becomes double by 2021-22.
- Five teams will be established in each block to work and proper implementation of different missions of the programme.
- As the scheme, these team will prepare development plans for them and that will be implemented in each village.
- Under the scheme, a Village Knowledge Centre will be set up in each village to bring proper balance in the scheme and MGNREGA playground will be developed in each village of the state.
- According to the plan, the average investment of the scheme is around INR 1.20 crore per revenue village.
- While the total required amount of the mission is INR 30,000 crore over a period of five years.
- An amount of INR 500 crore was provided in the current financial year 2016-17 which has been handed over by the finance minister to the chief minister.
- As per Situation Assessment Survey during the period from 2002-03 to 2012-13, the farm income in Assam was recorded only 0.88 percent as against national average of 5.2 per cent.
- Government has decided to launch CMSGUY to put in concerted efforts in a time bound manner by facilitating massive investments in rural areas for complete rural transformation in a period of 5 years to stimulate rural productivity. .
- He also said that one of the basic components of the scheme is to strengthen the rural economy as he said that without infusing life to the village economy, Assam cannot progress.
- 2021-22 which will also happen to be the 75 anniversary of India’s Independence.
- Moreover, INR 1000 crore is proposed in the Supplementary Demand. At the end of the financial year, the CMSGUY will have INR 1500 crore in its coffer.
Missions of CMSGUY: Know More
CMSGUY will have nine Missions which are:
- Fishery Mission,
- Milk Mission,
- Agriculture Mission,
- Land Management and
- Conservation Mission,
- Sericulture,
- Khadi and Cottage Industry Mission,
- Road and broadband connectivity,
- Semi-processing, processing and market linkages,
- Youth-Yoga-Sports Mission and
- e-gram Mission by developing Village Knowledge Centers by strengthening traditional Namghar and other community institutions.