Explain the Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana (RSVY).
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The Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana (RSVY) is being implemented in 147 districts since 2003-04. These include 21 districts from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, 16 districts from Jharkhand, 10 districts from Madhya Pradesh, 9 from Maharashtra,8 districts each from Chattisgarh and West Bengal and 5 districts each from Orissa and Assam among others. The list of districts covered under the RSVY is at Annexed.
At present this Scheme has been subsumed in the Backward Regions Grant Fund program. It is also proposed for closure from December 2009 as most of the districts have claimed their total allocation of Rs.45 crore each. As such there is no proposal under consideration of the Government to extend RSVY to other districts of the country.
This Information was given by the Minister for Rural Development, Dr. C.P. Joshi in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
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