Multi Sectoral Development Plan: 2008-12 DISTRICT :: BURDWAN.

Contents

1. Foreword - 1

2. Chapter- I : District Profile - 3

3. Chapter- II : Strategies adopted- An overview- 8

4. Chapter- III : Plan Outlay under MsDP

A) On Socio Economic Indicator - 10

B) On Basic Amenities Indicator - 30

C) Other Outlay - 38

5. Chapter- IV : Sector-wise Financial and

Physical Break up - 41

6. Chapter- V : Operation and

Maintenance Strategy - 44

7. Chapter – VI : Summary - 45

8. Annexure- I - 48

9. Annexure- II - 55

10. Annexure- III - 60

FOREWORD

Burdwan district, having an area more than 7000 sq. km., population over 70

lac with strong Agricultural and Industrial base, is one of the most prosperous district

in the State. It has about 20 % of totals population, in minority community. There are

several schemes of Minority Affairs department, WB Minority development & Finance

Corporation, implemented at present in the district. Besides, a % of other

departmental development fund is targeted for the development of the minority

community.

Recently Government of India has identified 90 districts spread over 20

States of the country as minority concentration districts on the basis of minority

population, four Socio-economic - literacy rate, female literacy rate, work

participation rate, female work participation rate and four basic amenities –

percentages of house holds with pucca walls, with safe drinking water, with electricity

and with water closet latrines. 12 districts of the state of West Bengal fall under the

category. Burdwan district is identified as one of the Muslim minority concentration

district and belongs to more backward category as both set of Socio-economic and

basic amenities indicators are found below national average (Category- A).

A baseline survey has been conducted by the centre for studies in social

sciences, Kolkata as sponsored by the Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of

India keeping in view of the findings to be used as input for the plan. According to

this survey, the district averages perform poorly compared to corresponding national

average in respect of (i) electricity in house, (ii) houses with pucca wall and (iii)

female work participation rate. A meeting of the District Level Committee for

implementation of the Prime Minister’s New 15-Point Programme has been held

recently for formulation of multi sectoral development plan for this district.

The plan is prepared in the perspective of the priorities laid down in the

baseline survey, provision of electricity as a whole has not been considered as the

total rural electrification programme has been undertaken under RGGVY, MPLADS

and BEUP. However, electrification for rural housing provision created in the plan

has been considered. For increasing female work participation rate, the tool of

NREGS will be boosted. Hence income generating activities for female has not also

been considered in the plan.

The plan has been discussed and approved by the District Level Committee

for Prime Minister’s New 15-Point Programme and as well as District Planning

Committee. Moreover, the State Government has prepared an Action Plan involving

all Departments for improvement of minorities of the State, this plan has also been

prepared in consonance with the said State Action Plan. We are sure that with effort

at all levels, we shall be able to bridge the gaps found in both the indicators i.e.

socio- concerted economic & basic amenities, in the district.

District Magistrate &

Member Secretary, District Planning Committee,

Burdwan.

Sabhadhipati, Zilla Parishad &

Chairman, District Planning Committee,

Burdwan.

CHAPTER – I

A BRIEF PROFIE OF THE DISTRICT

I. Area and location: Burdwan district has a total area of 7.024 lakh hectares (7024 square Kilometer), 31 Blocks containing 277 Gram Panchayats and 2438 inhabited villages. The district extends from 22056/ to 23053/ North latitude and from 86048/ to 88025/ east longitude. Lying within Burdwan division, the district is bounded on the north by the districts of Dumka, Birbhum and Murshidadab, on the East by Nadia, on the South by Hooghly, Bankura Purulia and the West by Dhanbad districts.. The district presently consists of six Sub-Divisions. The Sub-Divisions comprise of the following blocks:-

Sl.No Sub-Division Blocks 1 Burdwan Sadar (North) Burdwan-I, Burdwan-II, Bhatar, Ausgram-I,

Ausgram-II, Galsi-II. 2 Burdwan Sadar (South) Memari-I, Memari-II, Raina-I, Raina-II, Jamalpur,

Khandaghosh. 3 Durgapur Galsi-I, Kanksa, Faridpur-Durgapur, Andal,

Pandabeswar. 4 Asansol Raniganj, Salanpur, Barabani, Jamuria

5 Kalna Kalna-I, Kalna-II, Purbasthali-I, Purbasthali-II, Monteswar.

6 Katwa Katwa-I, Katwa-II, Mongalkote, Ketugram-I, Ketugram-II.

There are two distinct agro-climatic region in Burdwan district namely alluvial region (eastern part) and lateritic region (western part). The Eastern Part consists of alluvial soil and is pioneering in agriculture which is mainly a food grain producing zone. The conditions of soil, climates and irrigation infrastructure are favorable for agriculture. As such agriculture and its allied activities i.e. fishery, animal husbandry, horticulture and allied industries like husking mill, cold storage have been flourished in this zone. The Western Part is full of mines, both abandoned and working. The area has many important large industries along with a huge number of ancillary industries. Some important industrial establishments in this belt are Durgapur Steel Plant, Durgapur Project Ltd., Alloy Steel Plant, IISCO, Eastern Coal Fields etc.

II. Resource base : (a) Population and its composition :-

Burdwan district has a high concentration of population of around 7 million people. According 2001 Census, Density of population per Sq. Km. comes to 982. The population density as well as population has been increased more than fourfold during the last hundred years while the total area remaining the same. Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe categories constitute 26.98 percentage and 6.41 percentage respectively to the total population of the district. 20.37 percent of the total population belongs to Minority Communities. Distribution of rural and urban population by sex is given in

Table -I Distribution of rural and urban population by sex in the district of Burdwan according to

Census, 2001. Population (Number) Description

Male Female Total Rural 2239187 2109279 4348466 Urban 1349189 1197859 2547048 Total 3588376 3307138 6895514

Distribution of population by sex and by and by Age Group, by religion as well as by Scheduled castes and Schedule Tribes is also an important aspect of the composition of population of an area. Total SC population is 26.98% and ST population 6.41%. Population by religion is shown in table-2.

Table -2 Population by religion in the district

Religion % to total population Population (Number) Muslim 19.78 1364133

Christians 0.23 15997 Sikhs 0.32 22020

Buddhists 0.02 1607 Jains 0.02 1316

Others 0.74 50389 Hindus 78.89 5440052 Total 100.00 6895514

Table- 3 Block wise Details of Minority Population as per Cencus-2001:-

Name of Block Total

Persons Muslim persons

% of Minorities

Other Minorities

% of other Minorities

Ketugram-I 145859 64975 44.56 44 0.03

Monteswar 213498 83345 39.04 775 0.36

Mongolkote 233958 77745 33.23 311 0.13 Khandaghosh 170331 54736 32.14 362 0.21 Purbasthali-II 188061 55714 29.63 490 0.26

Katwa-I 152101 42212 27.75 287 0.19 Raina-I 162923 45076 27.67 513 0.31 Kalna-I 190741 52331 27.44 5844 3.06 Galsi-I 174123 47278 27.15 1290 0.74

Burdwan-I 179828 48635 27.05 975 0.54 Bhatar 236478 59157 25.02 1201 0.51 Galsi-II 133977 32873 24.54 509 0.38

Memari-II 135671 31987 23.58 11161 8.23 Purbasthali-I 188066 43163 23.58 796 0.43 Ausgram-I 106850 24712 23.13 210 0.20 Katwa-II 120318 27332 22.72 97 0.08

Ausgram-II 136263 28022 20.56 668 0.49 Ketugram-II 107054 19802 18.5 78 0.07

Memari-I 198278 36379 18.35 8394 4.23 Jamalpur 243397 40169 16.50 5331 2.19 Raina-II 137337 22500 16.38 93 0.07 Kalna-II 153680 23223 15.11 4511 2.94

Faridpur-Durgapur 10532 13845 13.12 1655 1.57 Pandabeswar 146541 17806 12.15 1169 0.80

Burdwan-II 138897 15507 11.16 1097 0.79 Jamuria 112893 11856 10.5 1165 1.03 Barabani 110393 11581 10.49 198 0.18

Ondal 168853 13371 7.92 1002 0.59 Kanksa 151276 10352 6.84 1097 0.73

Raniganj 101626 6650 6.54 1244 1.22 Salanpur 156320 5333 3.41 2615 1.67

Burdwan District 6895514 1364133 19.78 84299 1.22

(b) Work Participation rate:- The work participation rate, which is defined as the ratio of working population to total population, is considered as an important indicator of economic well being of any economy. It is expected that the larger the work participation rate, the higher is the economic prosperity. Data on working population of the district is depicted below. The working population is divided into two groups viz. Main workers and Marginal workers.

In the district of Burdwan, out of total workers of 245241 in 2001, 77.61 percent were main workers and the remaining 22.39 percent were marginal workers. The percentage of workers in rural areas was 68.81 percent and it was 31.19 percent in urban areas. The work participation rate of the district is estimated as 35.54 percent in 2001.

Table - 4 Distribution of population of Burdwan district according to different categories of workers

and non-workers by sex in 2001. No of population

Rural Urban Total Category

Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Main

workers 10498701 197974 1247775 578379 76180 654559 1628180 274154 1902334

Marginal works

21528 223380 438908 77236 32763 109999 292764 256143 548907

Non-works 973858 1687925 2661783 693574 1088916 1782490 1667432 2776841 4444273

Total population

2239187 2109279 4348466 1349189 1197859 2547048 3588376 3307138 6895514

Table - 5

Distribution of working population according to different categories of economic activities in Burdwan district during 2001.

No of workers Rural Urban Total Category

Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Cultivators 318342 30444 348786 10407 2494 12901 328749 32938 361687 Agriculture

labours 482647 224261 706908 190 89 8025 27114 501736 232286 734022

House hold Industry workers

42432 50279 92711 14780 13780 28560 57212 64059 121271

Other workers

1265329 421354 1686683 655615 108943 764558 1920944 530297 2451241

The economic activities of the population are broadly categorized, as Cultivators, Agricultural labours, House hold Industry workers and others workers (the category of other workers engaged in secondary and tertiary activities like manufacturing other than house hold Industry, in construction, in trade and commerce, in transport, in storage and communications and in other services). It is evident from the above Table that 14.74 percent of total workforce were engaged as Cultivators as whole and 29.94 percent as agricultural labours, 4.65 percent as house hold Industry workers and the remaining 50.37 percent as other workers. If we add up first three categories of workers which come to 49.63 percent of total workers who broadly work in the primary sector centering agricultural activities of the district.

c) Natural resource base :- Land and its quality :- There are two district agro climatic regions. Soil of the eastern part of the district of the area is extremely fertile. Climate and rainfall of the area is favorable for cultivation. The land in the Western Part in general is known to be acid-red laterite uplands and same parts are exposed as story-wastes’ dotted with hills and mounds of low height. Land use pattern :- Net cropped area of the district is 4.57 lakh hectares and the cropping intensity is 165. Percentage of land utilization according to classification is given in Table – 6.

Table – 6 Percentage of land utilization according to classification.

Area under agriculture

Area under Non agricultural use

Forest area

Horticulture Pasture and grazing land

Barren & un-culturable

land

Western fallow land

65.52

28.04 3.19 0.17 0.05 0.11 2.92

Railways :- The district is well connected by rail with the rest of the Country. Main, Chord and Loop line pass through this district. Burdwan, Durgapur and Asansol are important junction. Electricity :- 1. As per 2001 Census No. of total un-electrified Mouza : 2529 2. No. of electrified Mouza as on 2008 : 2438 3. Rest 91 Mouzas are depopulated Banking :- 28 banks have 436 branches spread over the district. Co-operative :- 2145 co-operative societies are working in the district.

CHAPTER – II

Strategies adopted for the overall development of Minority and the felt need – an overview :

The development of Minorities have been planned and implemented on the strength and

spirit of all on-going development activities now prevalent in the district keeping in tune with the directives of hon’ble Prime Minister new 15 Points’ programme. The district level committee meetings on the issue are held regularly with the Line departments and others to evaluate and assess the physical and financial outlays being provided for community development for the Minorities and to find out the critical gaps, if any and attempt are being made to bridge the gaps with the available district resources.

Very recently, the representatives of the West Bengal Minority Commission led by the Hon’ble Chairman, WBMC visited this district during the period from 16.06.08 to 18.06.08.

We were also enriched with the interactive session(s) held by the hon’ble Chairman, West Bengal Minority Commission and other dignified members of the Commission who visited this district during the period from 16.06.08 to 18.06.08 with the representatives of Minority communities, both in urban and rural sector and the elites from the field of eminent Doctors, Lawyers, Professors, Businessmen, Traders, Social activists, NGOs and the common people. Based on the experience of the interactive session and the representation made to WBMC, we are focusing the pace of development among the Minority community for their overall upliftment in the field of Upper Primary, Secondary/Higher Secondary education in Asansol, Durgapur area, Health, Agriculture, Social Infrastructure, Sanitation, drainage system, Water Supply, SHG movement.

Moreover, the Centre for Studies in Social Science, Kolkata has made a survey in 30 villages of 20 Blocks of Burdwan district. This survey is done on the basis of three criteria, 1) Minority population, 2) on region specific socioeconomic indicator and 3) basic amenities criteria. We have taken notes from the findings of such survey. The finding are depicted through the following table.

Table 7

Table showing priority ranking of facilities based on deficit on District average and National average :

Sn Indicator District average

National average

Deficit Priority rank

I. Socio economic indicators : 1. Literacy 71.89 67.3 - 4.59 6 2. Female Literacy 64.87 57.1 - 7.77 8 3. Work participation 40.64 38.0 - 2.64 5 4. Female Work participation 8.79 21.5 + 12.71 3 II. Basic amenities indicators : 5. Houses with Pucca wall 40.41 59.4 18.99 2 6. Safe drinking water(%) 93.78 87.9 - 5.88 7 7. Electricity in houses (%) 44.44 67.9 23.46 1 8. W/C Toilet (%) 31.44 39.2 7.76 4 III. Health indicators : 9. Full vaccination of children

(%) 55.26 43.5 - 11.76 -

10. Institutional delivery(%) 65.19 38.7 - 26.49 -

However in respect of findings of base line survey regarding coverage of W/C Toilet (%), we like to differ. As per our TSP report total coverage of families is above 99%. It is very likely that the Central for Studies in Social Sciences Team, Calcutta, in course of their survey regarding W/C Toilet (%), has taken into consideration only toilet constructed within house but our low cost latrine is located mostly outside of the house.

From the above table, the gap exists in work participation rate will be covered under the NREGS and the gap exists in the Rural Electrification will be covered under Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutayan Yojana. Other gaps are planned to be bridged under MsDP and dovetailing other available developmental schemes.

CHAPTER III : Plan Outlay under MSDP

A. Socio economic indicators : 1. EDUCATION :

The present education system in the district consist of Primary Schools (classes 1 to 4), Junior High Schools (classes 5 to 8), High/Secondary Schools (classes 9 & 10), Higher Secondary schools (classes 11 & 12), General, Vocational & Professional Degree colleges, and a University. In addition, the Sarva Shiksha Programme is implemented since 2001 in the district. Apart from conventional teaching, there are several vocational training centres in the district including Polytechnics, Mining Training Institute, Junior Training Schools, and Industrial Training Institutes.

Table – 8 Type of Institutions No. 1. S S K : 1062

2. Primary School : 3994

3. Junior High School : 54

4. High School and High Madrasha : 455

5. Higher Secondary School : 296

6. General Degree College : 27

7. University : 1

8. Open University Centres : 4

9. Technical School : 31

10. Technical College : 30

11. Technical Training College : 3

Table -9 District Report Card - 2007

Number of Blocks/ UAs Indicators

Country Score

State Score

District Score Below Avg Above Avg

Primary Schools per 1000 pop 0.61 0.66 0.82 17 25 High Schools per 1000 pop 0.13 0.12 0.15 19 23 Colleges per 1000 pop 0.01 0.01 0.01 27 15 Primary School within locality (%) 65.0 67.6 92.1 17 25 Accessibility Index 0.50 0.52 0.64 21 21 School Facility Index 0.49 0.47 0.46 18 24 Teacher Availability Index 0.40 0.42 0.47 17 25 Educational Infrastructure Index 0.48 0.50 0.52 21 21 Literacy (%) 65.0 69.0 69.6 26 16 Female Literacy (%) 54.0 60.0 60.2 27 15 Gender Gap in Literacy (% point) 22.0 18.0 17.9 24 18 Enrolment Ratio in Primary Stage (%) 64.0 50.0 90.6 28 14 Drop Out Rate in Primary Stage (%) 30.3 31.5 19.7 27 15 Completion Rate in Primary Stage (%) 63.0 60.0 72.7 28 14 Repeaters in Primary Stage (%) - - 8.1 17 25 Literacy Index 0.20 0.26 0.42 30 12 Enrolment Index 0.42 0.38 0.60 28 14 Retention Index 0.45 0.43 0.70 23 19 Educational Development Index 0.46 0.44 0.57 30 12

Source : District Human Dev. Report, Burdwan. Figure -1

Educational Infrastructure – Comparative Figures

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A - Primary Schools per 1000 pop; B - High Schools per 1000 pop; C - Colleges per 1000 pop; D - Primary School within locality (%); E - Accessibility Index; F - School Facility Index; G - Teacher Availability Index; H - Educational Infrastructure Index.

The educational attainments of minority concentration areas of the district has been studied in table 11 and it is observed that Blocks with higher percentage of Minority population are at par with the District average in terms of most of indicators. This is in exception to the national scenario.

Figure -2 Educational Development – Comparative Figures

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Table-10 District Report Card – 2006 – Comparative Stats

Indicators District Score

SC-ST Blocks

Minority Blocks

Ind Blocks

Agro Blocks

Mining Blocks

Rural Blocks

Urban LBs

Primary Schools per 1000 pop 0.82 1.29 0.87 0.75 1.23 0.76 0.97 1.41 High Schools per 1000 pop 0.15 0.27 0.13 0.14 0.20 0.14 0.14 0.31 Colleges per 1000 pop 0.01 0.02 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.03 Primary School within locality (%) 92.1 96.1 89.7 92.7 91.9 92.6 89.3 100.0 Accessibility Index 0.64 0.89 0.59 0.62 0.66 0.62 0.52 1.00 School Facility Index 0.46 0.36 0.46 0.42 0.48 0.37 0.52 0.31 Teacher Availability Index 0.47 0.44 0.50 0.36 0.51 0.38 0.47 0.45 Educational Infrastructure Index 0.52 0.56 0.52 0.46 0.55 0.46 0.50 0.59

Indicators District Score

SC-ST Blocks

Minority Blocks

Ind Blocks

Agro Blocks

Mining Blocks

Rural Blocks

Urban LBs

Literacy (%) 69.6 77.1 68.6 72.1 68.4 72.3 66.5 78.3 Female Literacy (%) 60.2 68.8 59.0 61.8 59.5 61.9 56.5 70.6 Gender Gap in Literacy (% point) 18.0 15.8 19.0 19.4 17.3 19.7 19.2 14.6 Enrolment in Primary Stage (%) 90.6 88.7 89.5 87.3 89.7 87.7 89.3 87.9 Drop Out in Primary Stage (%) 19.7 20.1 21.7 21.5 25.4 18.6 24.7 23.0 Completion of Primary Stage (%) 72.7 71.1 70.1 69.4 66.8 72.1 67.5 67.9 Repeaters in Primary Stage (%) 8.2 6.4 7.8 7.0 8.7 6.9 9.0 5.7 Literacy Index 0.42 0.60 0.34 0.40 0.35 0.38 0.27 0.63 Enrolment Index 0.60 0.55 0.59 0.48 0.60 0.50 0.58 0.51 Retention Index 0.70 0.78 0.63 0.71 0.63 0.78 0.62 0.76 Educational Development Index 0.57 0.65 0.52 0.53 0.53 0.55 0.49 0.63

Source : District Human Dev. Report, Burdwan. Notes: Distribution of blocks according to type is given in page 17 at Technical Appendix.

The district is quite developed in terms of availability of educational institutions. There are 3980 Primary Schools, 1062 SSKs, 54 Junior High Schools, 91 MSKs, 455 Secondary School and 296 Higher Secondary Schools run by the Government. In addition, private bodies run 614 Primary Schools, 117 Junior High schools, and 54 High Schools. There are also 35 General Degree Colleges and 47 Professional degree colleges in the district. Relative to population also, availability figures are quite satisfactory.

From the view point of the distance of educational institutions from the villages, it is observed that about 93 per cent of the villages have Primary Schools within the villages while only 3 per cent have it beyond 1 km. about 22 per cent of villages have High Schools, , and 48 per cent have Adult Literacy Centres within the villages. Therefore, it seems that accessibility of institutions is quite satisfactory in the district.

It is observed that 97 per cent of the Primary Schools in the district have Pucca Building while average Floor Area per student is 8.6 square feet & 7.1 square feet in Primary & High Schools respectively. 99 per cent of schools have Sanitation facilities; All Primary and High schools have Drinking Water, and all classrooms have Blackboards. The condition is far better compared to National and State figures.

If we now look at the human interface, we find that Teacher availability per school (TPS) is 3 in Primary, 12 in Secondary, and 20 in Higher Secondary schools. This is also higher than the National and State average.

Teacher Student Ratios (TSR - Teachers per 100 students) in the district are also higher than national and state averages – being 2.5 in Primary and 1.0 in High schools. If we consider both TPS and TSR, then the situation is comfortable in Raina-I*, Galsi-I*, Jamalpur, Memari (M)*, and Ketugram-II, and requires improvement in Raniganj, Kulti (M)*, Jamuria, Salanpur and Barabani. (NOTE * denotes minority dominated Blocks/Municipality.)

Compare to the last century, literacy in India has increased from 5.3% in 1901 to 65.4% in 2001. However, the improvement is much more pronounced for the males compared to the females, especially till 1981. As a result, the gender gap (difference between the % figures for the males compared to the females - GG) in literacy soared from 9.2 points in 1901 to 26.8 points in 1981, but declined thereafter to 21.7 points in 2001. The situation is better in our district with overall literacy being 71 per cent, and Gender Gap being 18 percentage points.

It is observed that the District score in female literacy is 69 per cent, with rural score being 55 pre cent and the urban score being 78 per cent. Areas with high scores are Khandaghosh, Memari- II, Purbasthali- I & II, Raniganj and Raina- I, along with the urban areas. Scores are quite low in Barabani, Memari- I*, Ausgram- II*, Ketugram- I* & II* and Memari(M)*. These areas need special focus for improvement of Female Literacy. (NOTE * denotes minority dominated Blocks/Municipality.)

Enrolment in Primary schools has been 5.55 lakh in 2007. During the same period, enrolments in the Junior High and High schools have been 6.58 lakh. In addition, there are about 1.2 lakh children in Madarsas, SSKs, and MSKs. Even this phenomenal numbers have not been enough to bring all our children to school. Scaling for population differences, Net Enrolment Ratio (NER) is commonly used measure relevant for capturing the collecting power of the educational

system. The Net Enrolment Ratio (NER) for Primary stages for the Nation as a whole has been 64 per cent in 2000-01. For the Junior High & Secondary levels, the NER was 45 per cent during the same period. For the district, the NER has been 90.5 per cent and 82.7 per cent in the Primary and High Schools stages respectively. NER is higher in the Municipal areas as also in the blocks of Ausgram- I*, Purbasthali- I, Barabani, Bhatar* and Ketugram- II. On the other hand, NER is low in Andal, Jamuria, Memari- I* & II*(NOTE * denotes minority dominated Blocks/Municipality.)

What is interesting is that Female Enrolment Ratios are higher than the Male NERs. One of the factors may be under-age and over-age enrolment of girls in primary and Junior High schools respectively.

In fact, the Dropout rates (DOR) are substantially high in India. The DOR in 2000-01 were 40.3%, 54.5% and 68.3% in primary, Junior High and secondary levels respectively. This indicates that only about 32% of the enrolled students completed their school education at the national level. Also, the DOR are higher for the girls compared to the boys.

For the district, the situation is not that alarming, and the DORs are only 13 per cent & 35 per cent for Primary & Junior High stages respectively.

Completion Rate in the District is 83 per cent for the Primary stage and 57 per cent for the Junior High stage, while only 53%, and 40% of the relevant age group children complete primary and Junior High level education respectively at the National level. Overall completion rate of the girls are higher than that for the boys – which is also a remarkable achievement of the district.

On the other hand, Retention and hence Completion Rates are higher in the Minority dominated blocks, which is contrary to the national scenario.

Table No - 11 Details about Registered Madrashas of Burdwan District

No. of total Registered Madrashas

No. of Jr. High Madrashas (V to VIII)

No. of High Madrashas (V to X)

No. of Senior Madrashas (I to X)

No. of H.S Madrasha (V to XII)

34 2 28 3 1 But we have no reliable data on unregistered Madrasha.

INTERVENTION PROPOSED 1.1 Construction of Madrasah Shiksha Kendra Traditionally the minority community forms informal body to set up educational-cum religious centre in the form of Madrasha. Some of the Madrashas are recognized and some are un-recognized. Government of West Bengal has taken an initiative to bring the unrecognized Madrasha into the purview of Minority welfare and Madrasha Education Department. The 400 nos. of unrecognized Madrasha in this state will be converted into Madrasha Siksha Kendra vide Memorandum no. 469-MD dated 31/03/2008 of MA & ME Department, Govt. of West Bengal in the line of Madhyamik Siksha Kendra. This is a new initiative taken by the State Government for universalisation of elementary education & prevention of dropout. In this process the unrecognized

Madrasha will be brought into mainstream of modern education. The district has already forwarded eight such proposals of unrecognized Madrasha into MSK. These unrecognized Madrasha at present run in kucha houses neither have drinking water nor toilets. It is proposed to construct 40 Madrasha Siksha Kendra under this multi-sectoral Minority plan during the 11th Five Year Plan

period. It is proposed to construct a MSK at the rate of Rs. 5.00 lakh each as per approved standard designed by Technical Cell of the district administration with drinking water and adequate toilets facilities. As the MSK will be constructed on the land of unrecognized Madrasha, the land availability will not be a problem. Though the detail guideline from MA & ME deptt. Govt. of West Bengal is awaited, we may propose that the responsibility of its Construction and future maintenance may be undertaken by the PRIs and the operational cost of the MSKs may be borne out of budgetary provision of the State Government. The plan outlay for this development sub-head is Rs. 200.00 lakh. The contract remuneration payable to the Sahayikas may be borne out of fund allotted by MA Deptt. Up-gradation and construction of additional class room of registered 34 Madrashas is made from fund dovetailing from other sources like MPLADS, BEUP and SSM but fund for construction of Madrasha Siksha Kendra is not available presently from the above said source. Hence, construction of Madrasha Siksha Kendra is proposed under MsDP.

1.2 Construction of SSK

At present 1062 Sishu Siksha Kendra with 2889 Sahayikas and 35 Supervisors are running in the district. This is a demand driven, community based and community managed initiative wherein local community can move the Panchayat to open a SSK if there is no school within 1km radius. The Panchayat facilitate and support the programme. The teachers (Sahayikas) are local women with same qualification as of formal school. The curriculum, in the books and teaching hours are same as followed by formal school. One academic supervisor for every 20 SSKs, mainly from among retired teachers is engaged for supervising the functioning of the SSKs. Community and PRIs provide infrastructure to run the SSK. Due to this scheme, the access to primary education and enrollment has increased substantially and helped us in reaching the education to the unreached areas especially more among girls, SC/ST and Minorities. About 88 thousand unprivileged children have been brought under the umbrella of primary education under this scheme. Cooked mid-day meal is also provided at SSKs for providing nutrition among the children. Sahayikas are paid honorarium from SSM fund. As the community provides the infrastructure, the condition of the large numbers SSKs is poor. However, State Government provide fund for constructing buildings with Sanitation facilities and kitchen shed as per standard design approved by State Government under different development

programme. Even than, we have 315 of SSKs, which runs in temporary accommodation. Building of SSKs is usually constructed from MPLADS, SSM, BEUP and PUP fund. But all the 315 SSKs building could not be covered during 11th Plan period with these funds. However 292.82 lakh has been spent for construction of additional class

room in the minority dominated blocks during 2007-08.

In view of above we have proposed, construction of 20 SSKs at an estimated cost of Rs. 3.00 lakh per SSK. The Proposed building of the SSKs will be constructed in the minority concentration areas of the district. The lands have will be provided by the community and the construction will be done by Gram panchayats. The proposed outlay for this scheme is Rs. 60.00 lakh.

In the first year we will select only those villages where minority population exceeds at least 50% of total population of the village or cluster of village(s) in the descending order after due consultation with P.R Bodies, DPC etc.

1.3 Construction of Vocational Training and Career Guidance Centre:

Baseline Survey Conducted for preparation of multi-sectoral development plan for minority concentration districts highlights that the district average performs poorly compared to national average, in female work participation. The district average in female work participation is 8.79 percent while the corresponding national average is 21.5 percent. As such there is a clear gap of 12.71 percent from the national Scenario.

Accordingly, a development plan is required to be drawn up to change the situation. Empowerment of women is essential to increase their representation in workforce.The percentage of female students in non-technical and technical Institution has been increased over the years. Now a suitable policy is to be adopted to increase their work participation rate.

For this purpose, one Vocational Training & Career guidance centre is proposed to be constructed under this plan. The proposed Centre will be constructed at Katwa which is a Minority Concentration Sub-Division of the district on public private partnership model. The centre is designed for imparting vocational training and providing career guidance to the women belonging to minority communities like Muslim, Sikh and Christian etc. The land for the proposed Centre will be provided by the PRIs and a private partner such as NGO will be selected to make the centre operational. Short term Vocational Training as well as Career guidance will be provided to the female aspirants of Minority Communities to enable them to participate actively in any economically productive work. The centre will be made operational very shortly by a NGO and to be housed temporarily in Bengal Institute of Technology, Katwa, which is a pioneer engineering college of the district. The building infrastructure will be constructed during second year of this plan period. For making it operational Rs. 10.00 lakh is required for procurement of instrument and accessories. A 20 bedded hostel will also be constructed in this proposed Centre to facilitate the stay of the female trainees during the course of study if needed. Total outlay for this scheme is Rs. 40.00 lakhs.

34 vocational training centers are in operation in this district which are run by technical education department of State Government. Minority students are also getting vocational training in this center. However, this center is proposed for exclusively minority.

1.4. Training for skill up-gradation of Rural Artisan The district has a long tradition and occupies a place of pride in handicraft and cottage industries like Weaving, Kantha Stitch, Batik Printing, Scissor making and Dokra. But the artisans, mostly belonging to Minorities Communities, facing difficulties in continuing their trade for competition coming from modernization of the items. Skill development especially in design is necessary to support their livelihood. We proposed to arrange skill improvement training along with exposure visit from them in collaboration with institute of repute like National Institute of Fashion Technology, National Institute of Design etc. This exposure will broader the horizon in inspire them to compete with successful brethren of other areas. This will be short duration training, curriculum of which will be finalized in consultation with the participating institution. The training may be provided in the block level training centres. The fund required for this programme mainly for procurement of training materials, and training cost. Rs. 15.00 lakh per year is proposed for this programme.

1.5. Organizing Education & Cultural Mela We are also contemplating to organize special Education Mela in minority dominated blocks at the

rate of one per year. This will help in exchanging and promoting cultural activity, foster communal harmony & sensitizing the minority community towards achieving universal education. We are keeping a budget provision of Rs. 4.00 lakh for this purpose and residual expenditure, if necessary, will be borne in by the PRIs.

Table- 12 (Rs. in lakh)

Year Sector

Name of Project 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Total

Basic amenities infrastructure Construction of Madrasah Siksha Kendra 50 50 50 50 200 Construction of Sishu Siksha Kendra 15 15 15 15 60

Vocational Training and Carrier Guidance Centre

10 30 0 0 40

Training for skill up-gradation of Rural Artisan

15 15 15 15 60 Educ

ation

Education & Cultural Mela 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 4.00 Total 91.00 111.00 81.00 81.00 364.00

2) Health :- Health represents both physical and mental well being and not just the absence of disease. It depends on number of factors which include general health status and hygiene, the status of maternal and child health, the extent of coverage of public health care delivery services to the poorest of the poors, the incident of morbidity and diseases and so on. A broad overview of the existing Public Health Services may be noted in brief as follows.

Table -13 Category of Hospitals/ Health Centres with strength in Burdwan district Name of the Institution Number of Beds

Medical College & Hospital 1105 Sub-Divisional Hospital 809

Rural Hospitals 270 BPHC 385 PHC 610 Total 3179

IIPS, Mumbai has prepared parameter specific ranking of several districts of India, during 2006, on the basis of a few criteria mentioned below. Burdwan district has got the following ranks.

% of women having three or more children - 96th rank. Contraceptive prevalence rate - 5th rank. Under 5th Mortality rate - 198th rank. Three or more Antenatal care visit - 211th rank.

Empirical study has been conducted for assessing the institutional delivery coverage and immunization made during 2007-08. The findings of the study is depicted below in Table – 14 & 15

Table 14: Vaccination of Under Five-Year Children (%)

(Community wise District Averages) Vaccination Muslim Non-Muslim Polio (pulse) 98.65 99.62 DTP 87.84 80.68 BCG 89.19 80.30 Measles 82.43 64.02

Government Private Government Private Organization 100.0 0.0 95.40 4.60

Unaware Distance Others Unaware Distance Others Reasons for non participation 66.67 0.0 33.33 45.10 0.0 54.90 Source: Report of Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata (Page - 36)

Table 15:

Information on Childbirth – Household Response (%) (Community wise District Averages)

Muslim Non-Muslim In house 50.68 30.04 Hospital 41.10 59.67 Private hospital 8.22 10.29

Place of birth

Others 0.00 0.00 Doctor 32.88 62.14 Nurse 15.07 7.41 Trained midwife 19.18 11.93 Non trained midwife 32.88 16.87

Help during child birth

Others/Don’t know 0.00 1.65 Own car 0.00 2.86 Rented car 87.50 86.86 No vehicle 12.50 5.14

Transport

Ambulance 0.00 5.14 Long distance 5.41 23.81 Unhygienic condition 5.41 25.00 Poor service quality 16.22 5.95 No female doctor 24.32 15.48

Reason for not availing Government. Hospital facilities

Others 48.65 29.76 Source: Report of Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata (Page - 36). There are 765 number sub-centre in the district. Out of these numbers 279 sub-centers have already been constructed with assistance from HSDI fund. 202 nos. of Health Sub-centre still run in rented buildings.

Table – 16 : Details of Sub-Centre in the Minority Dominated Blocks of the District

Block BPHC Gram Panchayet Sub-Centre PHC

GP HQ SC

Non GP HQ SC

Rest GP HQ SC to be

constructed

Requirement of Fund @ Rs.

8.5(in Lakhs)

Rest Non GP HQ SC to be constructed

Requirement of Fund @ Rs.

8.5(in Lakhs)

Burdwan-I 9 24 2 6 3 3 25.5 12 102 Burdwan-II

Kurmun 9 17 2 6 3 3 25.5 5 42.5

Memary -I Memari 10 31 3 6 3 4 34 18 153 Memary-II Paharhati 9 25 3 6 3 3 25.5 13 110.5 Jamalpur Jamalpur 13 38 4 6 3 7 59.5 22 187 Raina-I Mahesbati 8 26 3 6 3 2 17 15 127.5 Raina-II Madhabdihi 8 21 5 6 3 2 17 10 85 Khadaghosh Khadaghosh 10 26 3 6 3 4 34 13 110.5 Ausgram-I Bononabogram 7 21 3 6 3 1 8.5 11 93.5 Ausgram-II Jamtara 7 20 5 6 3 1 8.5 10 85 Bhatar Bhatar 14 38 6 6 3 8 68 21 178.5

Sada

r

Galsi-II Adrahati 9 24 2 6 3 3 25.5 12 102 Kalna-I Atghoria 9 26 3 6 3 3 25.5 14 119 Kalna-II Badla 8 22 4 6 3 2 17 11 93.5 Purbastali-I Srirampur 7 23 3 6 3 1 8.5 13 110.5 Purbastali-II Purbastali 10 26 4 6 3 4 34 13 110.5

Kal

na

Monteswar Monteswar 13 32 3 6 3 7 59.5 16 136 Katwa-I Srikhando 9 25 3 6 3 3 25.5 13 110.5 Katwa-II Noapara 7 20 2 6 3 1 8.5 10 85 Ketugram-I Ramjibanpur 8 24 2 6 3 2 17 13 110.5 Ketugram-II Ketugram 7 18 2 6 3 1 8.5 8 68

Kat

wa

Mangalkote Mangalkote 15 38 4 6 3 9 76.5 20 170

Contd.. of Table – 16

Block BPHC Gram

Panchayet Sub-Centre

PHC

GP HQ SC

Non GP HQ SC

Rest GP HQ SC to be

constructed

Requirement of Fund @ Rs. 8.5(in Lakhs)

Rest Non GP HQ SC to be

constructed

Requirement of Fund @ Rs. 8.5(in Lakhs)

Durgapur-F Laudoha 6 15 2 6 3 0 0 6 51 Andal 8 26 2 6 3 2 17 15 127.5 Pandaveswar

Khandra (U) 6 21 1 6 3 0 0 12 102

Kanksa Panagarh 7 26 4 6 3 1 8.5 16 136 Dur

gapu

r

Galsi-I Pursha 9 27 2 6 3 3 25.5 15 127.5 Raniganj Raniganj 6 20 2 6 3 0 0 11 93.5 Jamuria Jamuria 10 18 2 6 3 4 34 5 42.5 Jamuria (Muni) 0 18 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Barabani Kelejora 8 16 5 6 3 2 17 5 42.5 A

sans

ol

Salanpur Pithikeary 11 13 2 6 3 5 42.5 0 0 Total 277 765 95 186 93 91 773.5 378 3213

• * Constructed out of District Health & Family Welfare Society fund. • Source CMOH, Burdwan.

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INTERVENTION PROPOSED 2.1 Construction of Anganwadi Centre:

6890 Anganwadi Centres are working in the district. Out of these 2496 have own buildings while the rest numbers are running in community buildings/ rented houses. As such these Centres do not have acces to the safe drinking water & adequate toilet facilities.

Further building for 58 AWCs will be constructed with RIDF- XIII fund. Existing sources of fund is not sufficient to cover the critical gaps. It is therefore, proposed to construct 100 Anganwadi Centres in minority dominated blocks during the plan period , i.e, 25 Centres per year. The construction cost per AWC is estimated as Rs 4.00 lakh as per approved standard design of AWC building by the State Government. In total Rs. 400.00 lakh has been proposed as project cost for construction of these Centres. The entire amount is planned to be meet up out of MsDP fund. The

local community will provide the requisite land needed for construction free of cost and G.P will take the responsibility of future maintenance.

Initially, we shall identify the areas having minority population exceeds 50% of the total population of the village, in consultation with P.R Bodies/DPC under

MsDP.

2.2. Construction of Sub-Centre (Health) :- The main objective of Health Sub-Centre is to provide preventive health care service along

with mother & child health care awareness. Though a few sub-centres have been provided with building as per standard design of State Govt. out of fund of District Health and Family Welfare Samity, yet it is expected that all sub centres will not have its own buildings by the end of the 11th Five Year Plan period. Out of 765 Sub Centres running in this district, 202 Sub Centres are running in rented building. Every year NRHM provides for fund each 93 Sub-Centre @ 3 sub centers per block) to be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs. 8.50 lakhs leaving the critical gap in this area.

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Therefore, construction of 63 nos. health sub centres has been proposed under this plan with an estimated cost of Rs. 535.50 lakh. The per unit cost is Rs. 8.50 lakh. Total Plan outlay under this sector is depicted in Table – 18.

In the first year we will select site from those areas where concentration of minority population exceeds at least 50%.

2.3. Extended Health Centre : The primary objective of the NRHM is to reduce IMR & MMR. The proposal for setting up

of extended Health centre is a new and innovative concept where dissemination of health related information can be percolated to the villagers about the facilities available in the regular Health sub centre, PHCs/BPHcs/Govt run Hospitals. In one word, the extended Health centre will act as an Information Kiosk for creating awareness about the promotive health care to reduce IMR/MMR.

This extended health centre will be owned and managed by the concerned Gram Panchyaat and will be made operational through engagement of Trained Dhai or Community Health Guide (CHG). The extended health centre will also act as a place for safe ‘Labour Room’ for effecting normal delivery under the close supervision of Trained Dhai.

(A model Extended Health Centre) For this purpose, 200 extended health centre has been planned under MsDP with an

amount of 1.00 lakh, out of which 0.50 lakh may be met up through community participation or otherwise involving community at large.

In the first year we will select villages having minority population more 50% of total population of the village or cluster of villages in the descending order after due consultation with P.R Bodies, DPC etc.

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2.4. Pond based Bathroom with sanitation facilities or Community bathroom : It is studied that the members of women folk of Minority community usually use pond for

bathing at the cost of privacy. This is a kind of sensitive social issues which can be resolved if a Pond based Bathrooms or Community bathroom with sanitation facilities are set up on the bank of the village pond. For this purpose, setting up of 200 pond based bathroom or Community bathroom is planned with an amount of 1.00 lakh out of which 0.50 lakh will be met up through community participation/Gram Panchyat own fund or otherwise involving community at large. This would be managed by the minority SHGs.

In the first year we will select villages having minority population more 50% of total population of the village or cluster of villages in the descending order after due consultation with P.R Bodies, DPC etc.

2.5. Additional Mobile Health Van on PPP Model :- Curative health checks up and preventive health services through mobile health van are in

operation in the all 31 blocks of this district. Presently, Mobile Vans are provided to each and every BPHCs under PPP model to carry the complicated patients to the nearest referral hospitals. However, we like to concentrate this service more intensively in areas dominated by minority population to reduce MMR and IMR and to provide better health service. We are planning to deploy additional Mobile Health Van on PPP Model at Minority dominated areas for improving preventive & promotive health care facility. 8 nos. of additional mobile health van @ Rs. 5.00

lakh is planned to be provided out of MsDP fund. It will be managed and owned by local Panchayat Samity.

2.6. Special Health Mela :- We are also contemplating to organize special Health Mela in minority dominated Blocks at the

rate of one per year. The objective is to create awareness about the preventive and promotive health care, health consciousness and better understanding of the people about the existing health delivery system. We are keeping a budget provision of Rs. 4.00 lakh for this purpose and residual expenditure, if necessary, will be borne in by the concerned Panchayat Samity.

A Health Camp in Burdwan District

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Table – 17 Financial Outlay for Health Sector

(Rs. in lakh) Year Sector Name of Project

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Total Basic amenities infrastructure

Construction of Anganwadi Centre@ 4.00 lakhs, 100 nos

100 100 100 100 400.00

Construction of sub-centre @ 8.5 lakhs, 40 nos

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85 85 68 340.00

Extended Health centre, 200 nos @ 1.00 out of which Rs.0.50 lakh from MsDP

25 25 25 25 100.00

Health

Pond Based Bathroom, 200 nos @ 1.00 out of which Rs.0.50

lakh from MsDP

25 25 25 25 100.00

Special Health Mela 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 4.00 Mobile Health Van 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 40.00 Community Participation 50 50 50 50 200.00

Total 313.00 296.00 296.00 279.00 1184.00 3) Rural Water Supply & Sanitation 3.1. TUBE WELL:

Around 93.78 percent population of the district has access to the drinking water which is above the national average. But about 6.22% of people are to be provided safe drinking water.

Drinking water supply and Sanitation are essential necessities of life which is crucial for achieving the goal of “Health for All”. The access to minimum level of Sanitation and drinking water facilities is low to the rural population especially among minority community. An expansion and improvement of drinking water facilities in minority

concentration areas, has become an urgent priority. Though 140.00 lakh has been spent for improvement of drinking water facilities in minority dominated areas dovetailing fund from other available sources in 2007-08. This amount of fund annually is not sufficient to cater the need. We have proposed 1620 Nos. of tube well with concrete platform with drainage channel under MsDP. Each unit will cost Rs. 0.40 lakh out of which Rs. 0.25 lakh is planned to be provided out of MsDP and rest Rs.0.15 lakh will be meet up by community contribution/Gram Panchayat own funds. Total estimated cost is Rs. 648.00 lakh, out of which Rs. 405.00 lakh is proposed to be

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provided out of MsDP and rest Rs. 243.00 lakh will be provided by dovetailing other sources. The land will be provided by the beneficiaries and the PRIs will implement the project within the remaining period of Eleventh five year Plan.

Fund requirement for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme is given in Table – 19. In the first year we will select villages having minority population more 50% of total

population of the village or cluster of villages in the descending order after due consultation with P.R Bodies, DPC etc.

3.2. COMMUNITY TOILET BLOCK:- Construction of Community toilet in minority dominated area will not only provide impetus to total sanitation drive but also help in creating awareness for keeping environmental/ surroundings

clean. Keeping this in mind we have proposed, 50 Nos of community based toilet block at public places (pay & use toilet) maintained by minority women SHGs. Each unit will cost Rs 1.75 lakhs out of which Rs. 1.50 lakh is planned to be provided out of MsDP and rest from community contribution.

It will be run on PPP model with the help of SHGs who will maintain such toilet by collecting charges from the users.

In the first year we will select villages having minority population more 50% of total population of the village or cluster of villages in the descending order after due consultation with P.R Bodies, DPC etc. However, Rs. 132.93 lakh has been spent during 2007-08 for providing low cost latrine to the minority concentration areas under total sanitation campaign.

3.3. RAIN WATER HARVESTING :- We are well aware about depletion of ground water and as a result arsenic/fluoride problem in drinking water supply system. Though Rain Water harvesting technology is as old as man kind, yet we need to intensify our effort in creating awareness among people especially the students.

We have already taken an initiative in constructing Rain Centre (3rd in the country) at Salanpur to create awareness among public.

We prepare to construct Rain water harvesting system by accumulating run off roof water from primary, high or higher

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secondary School building in the minority dominated Blocks under MsDP. This will not only provide safe drinking water but also act as demonstration centre.

A few demonstration centres i.e. 1 per minority blocks ( @ Rs. 1.25 lakh; out of which Rs. 0.25 lakh will be dovetailed from other sources) will give impetus to all, to adopt similar technique. 20 models rain water harvesting unit will be installed in prominent minority dominated places.

Initially, we shall identify the area having minority population exceeds 50% of the total population, in consultation with P.R Bodies/DPC under MsDP.

Rs. 20.00 lakh has been proposed under this sub-head. 3.4. Water Testing Laboratory :- Since the eastern part of this district is arsenic prone, we are planning to set up two water testing laboratories in this area. These will be run by established Rural Sanitary Mart and nominal charge for maintenance will be levied from the beneficiary. We are keeping a budget provision of Rs. 6.00 lakh.

Table – 18 (Rs. In lakh)

Year Sector Name of Project 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Total

Basic amenities infrastructure Installation of Tube well with pucca platform for drinking water @ 0.40 lakh out of

which 0.25 will be provided from MsDP.

125 100 100 80 405.00 Rural water supply and Sanitation

Rain Water Harvesting 5 5 5 5 20.00 Community Toilet Block 19.50 19.50 18.00 18.00 75.00 Water Testing Laboratory 6.00 0 0 0 6.00 Total 155.50 124.50 123.00 103.00 506.00

Total outlay for RWS and Sanitation Rs. 766.50 lakh, from MsDP Rs. 506.00 lakh and rest

Rs. 260.50 lakh from other sources.

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B) Basic Amenities Indicator A baseline survey on religious minority population conducted by Center for Studies in Social

Science, Kolkata addresses the socio-economic issues of the communities of Burdwan district in view of preparation of a Multi Sectoral Minority Development Plan. They surveyed 30 villages of 20 blocks.

The survey shows that a large number of households, at places do not have in-house toilet facilities as per survey report and there is high variation across the villages. The district averages for in house toilet facilities as per survey is 47.39% for Muslims and 50.44% for non-Muslims. It is also a fact that Burdwan is going to be fully sanitized district very shortly and almost all houses will be covered under this campaign. However, we are giving due importance to the finding of survey reports. Those having toilet facility inside houses do have hygienic provision for toilets. Around 50% of the population does not have house attached toilet facility. It is also observed that though a large fund is available for low cost toilet, but people are reluctant to access such benefits. % of houses electrified for non-Muslims, 46.82% than the Muslims, 37.67%. However, its variation across villages is very high.

(I) Economics structure: Table - 19

Area (000 hectares), production (000 tons) and productivity (Kg. per hectare) of Agriculture Crops Area Production Yield rate Paddy 634.2 1892.9 2985 Wheat 4.9 10.1 2055 Maize 0.2 0.3 1728

Total Pulses 1.5 1.3 858 Rape & Mustard 46.5 31.0 668 Other oil seeds 9.6 9.8 1021

Jute 12.5 222.7 17.9 Sugarcane 0.7 39.5 53337

Potato 42.4 1132.5 26703 Chilly (dry) 2.4 3.3 1370

Ginger 0.1 0.2 1767

Bardhaman in 1901 ‘with its coal mines was much less dependent on agriculture than the other district of the State. The statistics obtained from 1901 census shows that 59.9 percent of the total population was dependent on agriculture. The industrial population that worked in coal mines and iron foundries accounted for 16.7 percent. Besides, pottery- works on clay, lime-works and brick and tile works grew rapidly in the Raniganj- Durgapur –Andal area. The industries like Paper mills and Silk weaving from Tasar are produced in Kalna, and Katwa Sub-Divisions, while iron utensils are made in some parts of the district. Activities like Biri making around Asansol, Mat-making in Katwa, flour-mills in Asansol and

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Raniganj area, ice and aerated water at Bardhaman, Asansol, Raniganj and Sitarampur areas are prevalent. At Nilpur, exportable quality mosquito-nets of cotton thread are made by the Muslim weavers. There have been substantial changes in the sources of non-agricultural livelihood. Emerging sources of rural livelihood are horticulture, fisheries, livestock and animal husbandry in farm activity. The traditional industries which are found in the district include cutlery, cart –making, Iron utensils, Brass and bell-metal utensils, clay image making, dairy, gold and silver smithy, lime making, , mat making, pottery, sweetmeats, tile making, leather work, carpentry, black smithy, oil crushing, crushing, cane and bamboo products, Gur making, wood and stone carving, etc.

1. Agriculture and Allied Activities, Irrigation segments and pattern of agriculture :- Since early nineteen seventies, summers paddy (Boro rice) emerged as the premier post monsoon crop of the district. The area under Boro crop (2.162 lakhs ha) is about fifty percent of crop area under Aus and Aman (4.313 lakh ha). Area under Potato and mustard grown in 51.30 thousands ha and 42.20 thousand ha respectively. Area under Wheat cultivation covers 4.90 thousand ha, Pulses covers 2.7 thousand ha and other oilseeds cover 6.3 thousand ha. Usually the paddy is cultivated by the farmers followed by potato. In Kalna/Katwa Sub-Division area jute is cultivated followed by paddy & potato. Mustard and vegetables are also cultivated in some areas. 68.62% of net cropped area has perennial irrigation facilities. 313590 hectors area get irrigation mainly from DVC canal system and high capacity deep tube well, medium capacity deep tube well and to some extent from shallow tube well and river lift irrigation system. Agri based industries like husking mill, cold storage, flower mill, rice mill, bakery and rice brand oil are flourished in a considerable number and contribute to the district domestic product. 1.1 Agriculture :- Burdwan is an agro based and one of the prosperous districts of West Bengal. However, the declining trend in the rate of increase in agriculture production in recent years is of a great concern for the long run sustainable livelihood security of the rural people of the district. As most of the Muslim population lives in rural area and depends on agriculture, an attempt to change the scenario has become imperative. Crop diversification is an effective alternative for increasing agriculture production and productivity.

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216189 landless agriculture labourers have so far been recorded as Pattadars (Vested land owner) by allotting about 54487.30 acres land. The main thrust of this sector is to organize field demonstration centre of micro-nutrients management, organic farming, alternate cropping and crop diversification for necessary improvement in agricultural production.

1.2 Crop Demonstration Centre:- Crop demonstration centre is proposed under multi-sectoral Minority District Development Plan to promote new technology for increasing the agricultural production as well as to enhance rural economy. The objectives of the programme are as under :

1. Increasing cropping intensity by bringing more land under double or multiple crops. 2. Promoting alternate cropping in the marginal land. 3. Increasing production and productivity of Paddy, Potato and vegetables. 4. Increasing production of oilseeds, pulses, Maize through area extension and productivity

enhancement. 5. Restoring soil fertility in Western area. 6. Enhancing Farm profits to restore confidence amongst the farmers. 7. Promoting use of organic manure.

The following strategies would be adopted to achieve the above mentioned objectives. 1. Stake holders at various levels will be engaged actively for implementing the

programme. 2. Improved technologies will be promoted and extended for capacity building of the

farmers. Demonstration Centres will act as catalyst for promotion of alternative cropping, crop diversification and increasing cropping intensity, use of bio-fertilizer as well as improved latest varieties of crops. It is expected that such practices will be adopted be many farmers of the district which shall help in increasing yield and then. Rs. 117.15 lakh has been proposed for development of agriculture sector in minority dominated areas under RKVY.

Year Area in Acres Plan outlay (Rs. in lakh) 2008-09 2500 50.00 2009-10 2000 40.00 2010-11 2000 40.00 2011-12 1500 30.00

Total 8000 160.00

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1.3 Seed Testing Centre :- Burdwan district occupies prominent place in respect of food grain production. But the district faces acute problem with respect to availability of quality seeds. In fact the district lacks in seed production and has to depend on others states for quality seeds. In view of the above it is proposed to give priority in Seed Multiplication Programme. Moreover, seed production is increasing over the years but its testing remains a problem. To overcome the situation one Seed Testing Centre has been proposed with an estimated cost of Rs. 5.00 lakh. The centre will be housed at District Agriculture Farm and will be managed by Seed Certification Section of Agriculture Department of the district.

1.4 Thrasher for SHGs formed by Minority Groups :- Thrasher (an agricultural implement) is used to extract paddy from stem. Under MsDP, it has been proposed to provide Thrasher to the landless agriculture labour from the Minority community on individual group basis. We have 3163 nos. of minority SHGs selected Groups be provided with a thrasher for harvesting the crop thereby provided employment to landless labours beyond cropping season. One thrasher @ Rs. 30000/- (Composite unit) per SHG, is proposed to be provided to 100 such SHGs under this plan. The total fund requirement is Rs. 30.00 lakh. Since the scheme is to be benefit landless agriculture labours who belongs to poorest of the poor section of the society, no beneficiary contribution or Bank loan is suggested.

1.5 Construction of Cluster Shallow Tubewell :

Though approximately 73% the total cropped area is covered under Govt./Pvt. Owned irrigation system yet to increase the irrigated area, we have proposed SHG managed cluster shallow tube well in selected areas. The unit cost of such shallow tube well would come to Rs 2.00 lakh out of which community contribution is planned to be obtained to Rs 0.50 lakh. Installation of 20 such cluster shallow is thought of. In addition Rs. 150.45 lakh has been proposed for development of irrigation facility in minority dominated area of the district under RKVY.

Total Plan outlay under Agriculture Head of Development is Rs. 195.00 lakh. Distribution of fund requirement is given in table 20

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Table – 20

(Rs. In lakh) Year Sector Name of Project

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Total Socio-economic Infrastructure

Crop Demonstration 40 40 40 40 160 Seed Testing Centre 0 5 0 0 5

Agriculture

Thrasher for SHG 10 7 7 6 30 Installation of cluster

shallow @ 2.00 lakh, out of which Rs. 0.50 lakh is

planned to be provided out of MsDP, 20 nos.

30 - - - 30

Total 80 52 47 46 225 Total outlay for Agriculture sub sector Rs. 235.00 lakh out of which Rs. 225.00 lakh is proposed to be provided out of MsDP and rest Rs. 10.00 lakh will be the community contribution.

2. Infrastructure :- 2.1 Roads:-

Present Status of roads:-

The district has about 3891.00 Km of roads at present which are distributed to various departments in following manner. Zilla Parishad : 1813 Km (In various stages of development) PMGSY : 395 Km ( Single lane bituminous VR) Highway Div : 1243 Km (SH, MDR, ODR, VR) PWD : 440 Km (SH, MDR, ODR)

Apart from this there is about 161.02 Km of high speed National Highways ( 4 Lane 156.150 Km. & 2 Lane 4.870 Km.) belonging to the NHAI and on the other end, about 2000 km of low traffic fair weather roads maintained mainly by the Panchayat Samities.

Roads in minority dominated Blocks :-

The district is well connected with the whole country in general and with the state by rail and roads. However, inter village connectivity needs improvement. The most of the intra village roads have been brought under PMGSY but a few roads of minority concentration villages remain

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untouched as upgradation of this road could not be considered under any programme due to financial constraint.

One of the important road i.e., STKK which passes mostly through minority dominated Blocks, remains inundated during monsoon period. Roads in all the minority Blocks having habitations with 1000 (+) population have taken for improvement under PMGSY. However connecting road for a few habitations having 500 (+) population have been identified in other poverty alleviation schemes. In these areas, there still remain some critical gaps, which need to be addressed out of MSDP fund.

Further, earthen roads which pass through the Muslim inhabitation need improvement for better living of the minorities of the district. Rs. 338.12 lakh (426.35 km.) has been spent during 2007-08 for improvement of these roads out of NREGA fund.

In this multi-sectoral Plan project like (a) bituminous road with culvert, (b) cement concrete pavement and (c) concrete drain across the pavement have been considered for changing the prevailing social infrastructure of the minority concentration areas of the district.

(i) Bituminous road with culvert :- Construction of 30 Km. of bituminous roads with culvert have been proposed under this Plan. Per km. cost of the road is estimated as Rs. 20.00 lakh and total cost of the scheme will be Rs. 600.00 lakh. This will not only help minority community but also others as well. The land will be made available by PRIs who will also implement the project and take the responsibility of the future maintenance. An expenditure of Rs. 900.00 lakh (36 km.) has been targeted for development of roads in minority concentration areas under PMGSY/ADB assisted works out of which an expenditure of Rs. 721.00 lakh (28.84 km.) has been achieved during the 2007-08.

(ii) Cement concrete pavement :- Pavement in the form of cement concrete road has been proposed under this multi-sectoral minority development Plan with necessary drainage structure to enhance the living condition of the minority hamlets. Cost for construction of per square meter cement concrete road is estimated as Rs. 520.00 and 38462 sq. mtr. cement concrete road will be constructed during the remaining 4 years of 11th Five year Plan period and Rs. 200.00 lakh is proposed for completion of the scheme. The remaining unsurfaced road will be converted into cement concrete pavements and hence the availability of land will not be a problem. The PRIs will implement the project and take the responsibility of future maintenance.

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(iii) Masonry Drain :- Drainage is very necessary in view of the Sanitation. Drainage conditions are not satisfactory in the minority hamlets of the district. Construction of 8000 mtr. concrete drain is proposed under this plan with an estimated cost of Rs. 2000/- for construction of per km. concrete drain . Total cost of implementation of this project is estimated as Rs. 160.00 lakh. As Construction of Masonry drain is planned in place of prevailing Kacha drains, the land will not be a problem. The PRIs will implement the project and take responsibility of future maintenance. These infrastructure development projects are proposed in this action plan for improving the quality of life of the people and reducing the imbalances.

In the first year we will select villages having minority population more 50% of total population of the village or cluster of villages in the descending order after due consultation with P.R Bodies, DPC etc. Total plan outlay under infrastructure development is Rs. 960.00 lakh. Sub-head wise fund requirement is depicted below :-

Table – 21 (Rs. In lakh) Year Sector Name of Project

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Total Socio-economic Infrastructure

Bituminous Roads & Culvert

200 140 140 120 600

Cement Concrete Pavement 80 40 40 40 200

Infrastructure Development

Masonry Drain 60 40 40 20 160 Total 340 220 220 180 960

Total outlay for this sub sector is Rs. 960.00 lakh.

3) Rural Housing : Possession of a house to a shelter less persons brings about a profound social change in his existence. There is clear correlation between poverty and housing. The housing situation in minority concentration areas needs adequate improvement both in terms of addition in new housing stock while replacing the dilapidated one in each of the block. Base line data suggest improvement in house with pucca walls for religion specific minority population and there is 18.99 percent deficit in district average from national average.

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Keeping in view the importance of housing, Government of India has launched a scheme namely Indira Avas Yoyana (IAY) for construction of Pucca houses in rural areas to the BPL families. An amount of Rs. 35000/- is available for construction of a house with W/C toilet and kitchen under the scheme. As per latest BPL survey conducted in the district 78421 minority families out of total minority families of the district are living below poverty line (BPL). Most of the above families live in kucha houses or in dilapidated houses. 1220 dwelling houses have been provided to the BPL minorities, in the financial year 2007-08 and 610 dilapidated houses have been upgraded under IAY programme during 2007-08, the first year of 11th five year Plan.

Year-wise performance of Burdwan :- Allotment received from Government (Central & State) Under IAY Programme from the year

2003-04 to 2007-08. (Rs.in lakh)

Year Central Share State Share Total

2003-2004 748.41 249.57 998.28

2004-2005 1023.20 341.06 1364.26

2005-2006 1293.01 431.003 1724.013

2006-2007 1374.605 658.205 1832.81

2007-2008 1909.24 636.414 2545.654

No. of house constructed/Upgradaded

Year 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 No. of new house constructed 5253 5520 5864 7676

House upgraded under IAY 2627 2757 2935 3921

In the normal scheme of the Government, it will take long time to cover all the eligible minority families for construction of houses under IAY presuming 15 % fund of a scheme is usually make available for minority development work under the declared policy of the State Government.

It is, therefore, proposed to cover 4000 BPL families during four years of multi-sectoral minority Plan. Total Plan outlay for the sub-head of development is calculated as Rs. 1400.00 lakh for 4000 houses at estimated cost of Rs. 0.35 lakh per house excluding labour component. Beneficiary will contribute labour. 17 blocks having minority population above the district average has been considered for execution of the scheme. Backward villages dominated by the minority of this block will be selected for saturating these villages by constructing the houses of eligible households.

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Year-wise requirement of fund is given in Table – 22. Table – 22

(Rs. In lakh) Year Sector Name of Project

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Total Basic amenities infrastructure Rural Housing

Facilities Provision of low cost pucca house for

minorities fall in BPL group with W/C latrine 420 350 350 280 1400

4) Other outlays i) SOLAR ENERGY DEMONESTRATION CENTRE :- Solar energy is an important form of non-conventional energy. This concept is not entirely new for this district. One solar energy park has already been constructed at Durgapur for promoting the concept of use of non-conventional energy for the sake of environment and in view of scarcity of bio-fuel. A initiative for production of 2 Mega Watt electricity using photovoltaic cell at Jamuria has been taken by Disergarh Power Supply Co. Ltd. In collaboration with WBREDA. But this is a very fraction of our requirement. We need to aware young generation about more and more use of non-conventional energy.

We are contemplating installation of solar energy block in a few (10+2) Schools and rural huts located in minority areas. These photovoltaic cell will change sunlight into electricity which can be used in class room and popularize use of alternate source of energy to the students. The installation of solar light in the rural huts would surely improve the trading activity even after dusk. Concerned Managing Committee in respect of Schools and the user group/beneficiary committee in respect of rural hut will look after its maintenance.

This model with encourage others to follow the same path. 20 units of solar energy centre are proposed for installation of 20 identified minority dominated blocks with an estimated cost of 3.50 lakh per unit out of which Rs 3.00 lakh will be provided out of MsDP & Rs 0.50 lakh will be the community contribution. The total fund requirement for this purpose is Rs. 70.00 lakh out of which Rs 60.00 lakh from MsDP and Rs 10.00 lakh will be the community contribution.

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ii) Construction of working women Hostel for minority community. Burdwan is identified Muslim minority district .Women belonging to minority Community are

facing difficulties in arranging their accommodation mainly in urban areas due to religious sentiments/privacy and have to commute journey daily to attend work place with utmost hardship. In view of the above, it is proposed to construct three working women hostels one at Asansol, Durgapur and Burdwan.

It is proposed to construct 20 rooms hostel in twin sharing with kitchen, dinning space. Common room and toilets, water, electricity, guardroom, grilled verandah and boundary wall. The estimated cost per hostel is Rs. 80.00 lakh and as such the cost for three hostels is Rs. 240.00 lakh. Land for construction of such hostels will be made available by rural or urban local bodies. These hostels will run on no loss no profit basis and the operation and maintenance of the hostels will be taken care of by a selected NGO working for the minority welfare or a committee to be constituted for the purpose by the government. The benefit of this project will go not only to the Muslim women but also will be available to the Sikh, Christian and other women belonging to minority religions groups.

The proposed plan out lay under this sub-head of development is depicted below.

Year Location of the hostel Constrc cost ( lakh) 2009-10 Asansol 80.00 2010-11 Burdwan 80.00 2011-12 Durgapur 80.00

Total 3 hostels 240.00 Total outlay for this sub sector is Rs. 240.00 lakh.

iii) Marketing Infrastructure.

Burdwan has rich tradition in handicrafts. The artisans do facie difficulties in marketing their products and in procuring raw materials. They have to depend largely on middlemen. A market linkage cum promotional center at Katwa is proposed for creating a link between the artisans and actual buyers/ exporters. This will help in doing away with the middle man who usually usurp large share of profit. This will also help in creating a brand value of local product. Rs. 100.00 lakh is proposed for providing infrastructural support which will be executed in the second and third year of the plan period. This project will be operated and maintained by Co-operative Society to be

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formed from the artisans belonging to minorities. District Industry Centre and District Rural Development Cell will act as facilitators. Required land will be provided by Local Self Government.

iv) Income Generation Activity for Minority Women.

In addition to intervention proposed for improving the critical gaps in socio economic and basic amenities, proposal for income generation activities for minority women belonging to Muslim, Sikh, Christian faith of religion and living below poverty line is being considered. This is mostly in the form of economic assistance with provision of bank credit with low interest in the pattern of existing Mahila Samriddhi Yoyana from MsDP. At present such schemes are available under MSY to SC/ST and OBC women. A scheme of similar type for minority Self Help Women Groups belonging to BPL families is proposed. Subsidy/Assistance @ Rs. 1.00 lakh per Self Help Group formed by Minority Women is proposed. In four years assistance to 100 such groups will be provided.

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CHAPTER- IV Sector wise year wise financial break-up of investment proposed for Multi-sectoral

Development Plan. Year (Rs. in lakh)

Sector

Name of Project 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Total

Socio-economic Infrastructure Crop Demonstration 50 40 40 30 160 Seed Testing Centre 0 5 0 0 5

Agriculture

Thrasher for SHG 10 7 7 6 30 Installation of cluster shallow 30 0 0 0 30

Bituminous Roads & Culvert 200 140 140 120 600 Cement Concrete Pavement 80 40 40 40 200

Infrastructure Development

Masonry Drain 60 40 40 20 160 Solar Energy Demonstration 18 15 15 12 60

Marketing Infrastructure 0 50 50 0 100 Others

M.S.Y for minority 25 25 25 25 100 Basic amenities infrastructure 0 0 0 0 0

Provision of low cost pucca house for minorities fall in BPL

group with W/C latrine

420 350 350 280 1400 Rural Housing Facilities

Working women hostel 0 80 80 80 240 Installation of Tube well with pucca

platform for drinking water 125 100 100 80 405

Rain water harvesting 5 5 5 5 20 Community Toilet Block 19.50 19.50 18 18 75

Rural water supply and Sanitation

Water Testing Lab. 6 0 0 0 6 Construction of Anganwadi

Centre 100 100 100 100 400.00

Construction of sub-centre 102 85 85 68 340 Extended Health centre 25 25 25 25 100 Pond Based Bathroom 25 25 25 25 100

Mobile Health Van 10 10 10 10 40

Health

Spl. Health Mela 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 4.00 Construction of Madrasah

Siksha Kendra 50 50 50 50 200

Construction of Sishu Siksha Kendra

15 15 15 15 60

Vocational Training and Carrier Guidance Centre

10 30 0 0 40

Training for skill development and exposure visit

15 15 15 15 60

Education

Education & Cultural Mela 1 1 1 1 4 Total 1402.50 1273.50 1237.00 1026.00 4939.00

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Sector wise year wise Physical break-up of investment proposed for Multi-sectoral Development Plan.

Year Sector Name of Project 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Total

Socio-economic Infrastructure Crop Demonstration 2500 Acre 2000 Acre 2000 Acre 1500

Acre 8000 Acre

Seed Testing Centre 0 1 no. 0 0 1 no.

Agriculture

Thrasher for SHG 6 no. 5 no. 5 no. 4 no. 20 no. Installation of cluster shallow 20 - - - 20 no

Bituminous Roads & Culvert 10 km. 7 km. 7 km. 6 km. 30 km. Cement Concrete Pavement 15386

Sq.mtr. 7692

Sq.mtr. 7692

Sq.mtr. 7692

Sq.mtr. 38462 Sq.mtr

Infrastructure Development

Masonry Drain 3000 mtr. 2000 mtr. 2000 mtr. 1000 mtr. 8000 mtr.

Solar Energy Demonstration 6 no. 5 no. 5 no. 4 no. 20 no. Marketing Infrastructure 0 0 1 no. 0 1 no.

Others

M.S.Y for minority 25 nos. 25 nos. 25 nos. 25 nos. 100 nos. Basic amenities infrastructure

Provision of low cost pucca house for minorities fall in BPL

group with W/C latrine

1000 No 1000 No 1000 No 1000 No 4000 NO Rural Housing Facilities

Working women hostel 0 1 no. 1 no. 1 no. 3 nos. Installation of Tube well with pucca platform for drinking

water

500 Nos. 400 Nos. 400 Nos. 320 Nos. 1620 Nos.

Rain water harvesting 5 nos 5 nos 5 nos 5 nos 20

Rural water supply and Sanitation

Community Toilet Block 13 nos 13 nos 12 nos 12 nos 50 nos. Water Testing Lab. 2 nos. 0 0 0 2 nos.

Construction of Anganwadi Centre

25 Nos. 25 Nos. 25 Nos. 25 Nos 100 Nos.

Construction of Sub-centre 12 Nos. 10 Nos. 10 Nos. 08 Nos. 40 Nos. Extended Health centre 50 50 50 50 200 Pond based Bathroom 50 50 50 50 200

Mobile Health Van 2 nos. 2 nos. 2 nos. 2 nos. 8 nos.

Health

Spl. Health Mela 1 nos. 1 nos. 1 nos. 1 nos. 4 nos. Construction of Madrasah

Siksha Kendra 10 Nos. 10 Nos. 10 Nos. 10 Nos. 40 nos.

Construction of Sishu Siksha Kendra

5 Nos. 5 Nos. 5 Nos. 5 Nos. 20 Nos.

Vocational Training and Carrier Guidance Centre

0 1 nos. 0 0 1 no.

Training for skill development and exposure visit

100 nos. 100 nos. 100 nos. 100 nos. 400 nos.

Education

Education & Cultural Mela 1 nos. 1 nos. 1 nos. 1 nos. 4 nos.

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Abstract of estimated cost of each Project proposed for Multi-sectoral Development Plan of Burdwan district during the year 2008-09 to 2011-12.

Cost per Unit Financial target

(Rs.in lakh) Sl. No.

Name of the Project Unit

Cost/unit (Rs. In lakh)

to be provided

out of MsDP

Cost/unit (Rs. In lakh) to be provided from other sources

Physical target

Out of MsDP fund

Other resourc

es

1 Crop Demonstration Acre. 0.02 - 8000 160.00 0 2 Seed Testing Centre No 5.00 - 1 5.00 0 3 Thrasher for SHG

(Per Composite unit) No. 0.30 - 100 30.00 0

4 Installation of cluster shallow No 1.50 0.50 20 30.00 10.00 5 Rain Water Harvesting No. 1.00 0.25 20 20.00 5.00 6 Bituminous Roads & Culvert Km. 20.00 - 30 600.00 0 7 Cement Concrete Pavement Sq. Mtr. 0.0052 - 38462 200.00 0 8 Masonry Drain Mtr. 0.02 - 8000 160.00 0 9 Solar Energy Demonstration No 3.00 0.50 20 60.00 10.00 10 Marketing Infrastructure No. 100.00 0.00 1 100.00 0.00 11 M.S.Y for minority No. 1.00 0.00 100 100.00 0.00 12 Provision of low cost pucca house for

minorities fall in BPL group with W/C latrine No 0.35 0.05 4000 1400.00 200.00

13 Working women hostel No 80.00 - 3 240.00 0 14 Installation of Tube well with pucca

platform for drinking water No. 0.25 0.15 1620 405.00 243.00

15 Construction of Anganwadi Centre No. 4.00 - 100 400.00 0 16 Construction of sub-centre No. 8.50 - 40 340.00 0 17 Construction of Extended Health

centre No 0.50 0.50 200 100.00 100.00

18 Pond based bathroom No 0.50 0.50 200 100.00 100.00 19 Construction of Madrasah Siksha

Kendra No. 5.00 - 40 200.00 0

20 Construction of Sishu Siksha Kendra No. 3.00 - 20 60.00 0 21 Vocational Training and

Carrier Guidance Centre No. 40.00 - 1 40.00 0

22 Training for skill development and exposure visit

No. 0.15 0 400 60.00 0.00

23 Community Toilet Block No. 1.50 0.25 50 75.00 12.50 24. Water Testing Lab. No. 3.00 0.00 2 6.00 0.00 25. Education & Cultural Mela Nos. 1.00 0.00 4 4.00 0.00 26. Spl. Health Mela No. 1.00 0.00 4 4.00 0.00 27. Mobile Health Van No. 5.00 0.00 8 40.00 0.00

Total 4939.00 680.50

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CHAPTER- V

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE STRATEGY:

Most of the schemes proposed to be undertaken under MsDP plan are community-based and comprehensive plan is made to operate and maintain the asset(s) created out the MsDP by funding through community participation. The concept of user group and/or beneficiaries’ committee has been already in place

in most of the Government schemes and has been time tested for efficient management and better functioning of the project. The assets to be created out of MsDP are also planned to be managed by community participation/members of minority SHGs/Gram Unnyayan Samity by involving the user group with a sense of ownership among them.

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CHAPTER- VI. Summary :

In the foregoing paras, attempts have been made to elucidate the vision of the district for preparation of Multi Dimensional Development Plan for the Minorities for overall upliftment of the said community at large. We have tried to understand the need of the community and the task ahead to bridge the gap for Samavikas with other community so that the minorities can themselves come up with jeal and endeavor to the main stream of the society. We are hopeful and confident that much can be done for this section of the community if deliberate attempts are made through the effective plan process, implementation and fund management under MsDP.

In MsDP we have not suggested any income generation/ economic activities as existing fund of State Govt./ GOI Fund/Schematic fund of Department, Corporations, Undertakings viz NREGS/SGSY/IAY/11th Finance Commission/Untied fund/ Deptt fund/Own fund of PR bodies etc. do cater the need to large extent. In the previous chapters we have tried to formulate a plan involving total plan outlay of (Rs. 4939.00 lakh + Rs. 680.50 lakh) i.e. 5619.50 lakh out of which Rs. 4939.00 is planned to be provided out of MsDP and rest 680.50 lakh from community contributions and dovetailing other resources. If any cost escalation arises during execution of scheme will be provided from other available resources

This would surely pave the way for bringing better tomorrow for the minorities and overall development of the district as a whole.

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annexures

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Ministry of Minority Affairs, Govt. of India has examined the MsDP Plan of Burdwan district and wanted a few additional information and clarifications on

the schemes proposed for consideration. The additional information and clarifications is furnished in Annexure- III along with observation of the

Ministry given in Annexure- II

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ANNEXURE- I

Mouza wise Minority Population in the District of Burdwan.

Name of Block

Sl. No.

Name of Mouza % of Minority Population

Name of Block Sl. No.

Name of Mouza % of Minority Population

Ausgram-I 1 Bannabagram 52% Ausgram-II 1 Dhantor 60% 2 Warishpur 54% 2 Kakora 79% 3 Alefnagar 51% 3 Paschimchandipur 67% 4 Srikrishnapur 82% 4 Balarambati 91% 5 Nripatigram 94% 5 Sonaiaima Purba 100% 6 Sahapur 84% 6 Shyamsunderpur 93% 7 Baburbandh 100% 7 Bishnupur 71% 8 Silut 64% 8 Genrai 96% 9 Mallickpur 100% 9 Purba 88% 10 beluti 50% 10 Khorda Dwariapur 88% 11 Berenda 60% 11 Brahmandihi 79% 12 Joykrishnapur 84% 12 Aoogram 59% 13 Sundalpur 83% 13 Ramharipur 57% 14 Kalyanpur 50% 14 Radhaballavpur 83% 15 Batagram 90% 16 Pitchkuri 90% Bhatar 1 Dangsara 70% 17 Ukta 82% 2 Jharul 60% 18 Dignagar 50% 3 Gholda 80% 19 Bhota 68% 4 Kaspor 70% 20 Kairapur 50% 5 Rajpur 80% 21 Shibda 50% 6 Panoa 75% 22 Bhatgonna 50% 7 Jujukdanga 55% 8 Bijipur 61% Burdwan -I 1 Matial 97% 9 Bigra Madpur 85% 2 Yusufabad 85% 10 Mandardihi 585% 3 Nababhat 73% 11 Nawda 79% 4 Alampur 92% 12 Balsidanga 75% 5 Saraitika 76% 13 Belenda 60% 6 Krishnapur 86% 14 Bamsore 85% 7 Jamar 67% 15 Bolgona 70% 8 Kshetia 73% 16 Sikortore 60% 9 Gopalbati 54% 17 Tulsidanga 53% 10 Chamardighi 81% 18 Ramchandrapur 91% 11 Kharluji 86% 19 Bhatakul 54% 12 Pure Balisha 91% 20 Muratipur 81% 13 Nityanandapur 90% 21 Santoshpur 54% 14 Rayan 61% 22 Chandibati 82% 15 Sadhanpur 54% 23 Hargram 52% 16 Kantia 51% 24 Ghuria 59% 25 Erachia 85% 26 Bijoynagar 91%

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27 Palsona 91% Burdwan-II 1 Tejpur 95% Galsi-II 1 Atusi 62% 2 Atagarh 90% 2 Patrahati 98% 3 Ghatshila 99% 3 Bharichha 75% 4 Saktigarh 90% 4 Tentulmuri 89% 5 Jafrabad 90% 5 Itaru 63% 6 Tatkhanda 80% 6 Darbarpur 77% 7 Ausha 50% 7 Dayaipur 78% 8 Bamchandipur 60% 8 Khetura 68% 9 Babla 64% Khandagosh 1 Palasdanga 100% 10 Askaran 88% 2 Ulkurda 83% 11 Bbahirghanya 63% 3 Sikarpur 91.46% 12 Sankan 67% 4 Mour 50.04% 13 Chotomuria 53% 5 Huria 90.99% 14 Sananga 84% 6 Kulchowra 100% 15 Chakmuria 84% 7 Keshabpur 96.71% 16 Chandanpur 85% 8 Kamalpur 56% 9 Hamirpur 89.96% Memari- I 1 Sekhpur 52% 10 Aradanga 59.98% 2 Chanchai 53% 11 Ownri 75.01% 3 Paschim Memari 51% 12 Alipur 85% 4 Dadpur 52% 13 Nichintapur 100% 5 Sunra 51% 14 Padua 100% 6 Elamdanga 85% 15 Dalyor 100% 7 Sonara 51% 16 Lodra 100% 8 Kantapur 51% 17 Shyamadanga 66.32% 9 Moglampur 52% 18 Kapsit 83.22% 10 Shyamnagar 51% 19 Bamunan 57.19% 11 Taherpur 52% 20 Metedanga 92.88% 12 Chilinda 51% 21 Khantikar 54.40% 13 Durgadanga 55% 22 Ukhrid 88.18% 14 Kiskinda 65% 23 Goyespur 56.53% 15 Baharampur 55% 24 Enyatnagar 50.90% 16 Talchini 54% 25 Keundia 94.90% 17 Bijra 55% 26 Jubila 84.53% 18 Iswampur 51% 27 Badulia 50.87% 19 Keja 54% 28 Alladipur 51.15% 20 Gopinathpur 51% 29 Taraposh 59.10% 21 Mogra 55% 30 Puriha 87.61% 22 Kabirpur 51% 31 Kantapukur 75.34% 23 Kashiara 58% 32 Amlia 88.95% 24 Hatbaksa 52% 33 Gopalpur 72.54% 25 Tatarpur 52% 34 Amba 100.00% 26 Talsara 51% 35 Induti 55.17% 27 Deulia 52% 28 Kailashpur 51% 29 Salda 53%

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Raina- I 1 Bontir Above 50% Memari- II 1 Bilbari Above 50% 2 Matchkhanda Above 50% 2 Gante Above 50% 3 Jotsadi Above 50% 3 Mosagoria Above 50% 4 Belsor Above 50% 4 Chandipur Above 50% 5 Shibpur Above 50% 5 Sikarpur Above 50% 6 Babrakpur Above 50% 6 Mahispur Above 50% 7 Bamunia Above 50% 7 Farakpur Above 50% 8 Chakpurohit Above 50% 8 Siddharia Above 50% 9 Sripur Above 50% 9 Mosra Above 50% 10 Kulia Above 50% 10 Bamunpukur Above 50% 11 Chandpur Above 50% 11 Sarra Above 50% 12 Golgram Above 50% 13 Samaspur Above 50% Raina- II 1 Sandhipur 66.30% 14 Nurpur Above 50% 2 Mandarpur 51.60% 15 Gopalpur Above 50% 3 Bhanjapur 52.80% 16 Shankarpur Above 50% 4 Chakchandan 62.30% 17 Baharampur Above 50% 5 Baithari 78.10% 18 Ahaladipur Above 50% 6 Mosjidpur 65.60% 19 Pursona Above 50% 7 Borojpota 79.80% 20 Khemta Above 50% 8 Kurchigoria 64.60% 21 Udgara Above 50% 9 Chakmostafa 97.10% 22 Aushara Above 50% 10 Alampur 82.50% 23 Bujrukdighi Above 50% 11 Birpur 50.50% 24 Mogalmari Above 50% 12 Rupsara 52.50% 25 Bajitpur Above 50% 13 Jashapur 66.37% 26 Madanagar Above 50% 14 Barathi 82.20% 27 Rasuikhanda Above 50% 28 Rasulpur Above 50% Jamalpur 1 Chakanjadi 50% 29 Baira Above 50% 2 Balarampur 51% 30 Rupsona Above 50% 3 Ballabati 53% 31 Gopinathpur Above 50% 4 Baistapur 57% 32 Khalina Above 50% 5 keliri 54% 33 Ibidpur Above 50% 6 Moyna 50% 34 Hakrishnapur Above 50% 7 Jajanpur 51% 35 Raina (Purbapara) Above 50% 8 kamalpur 53% 36 Belur Above 50% 9 Mothurapur 52% 37 Dakshinkul Above 50% 10 Bahadurpur 51% 38 Astikpur Above 50% 11 Selimabad 50% 39 Paschimpara Above 50% 12 Sajipur 56% 40 Mathnurpur Above 50% 13 Joddkhshin 57% 14 Saha- Hossinpur 50% 15 Satgoria 50% 16 Dakshinmohanpur 57% Pandabeswar 1 Dalurbandh 50% 17 Daspur 58% 2 Chak-Karola 50% 18 Kubajpur 52% 3 Mahal 50% 19 Bishnubati 51%

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4 Dannya 50% 20 Siromoni 50% 5 Nabagram 50% 21 Sarangpur 56% Faridpur- Durgapur 1 Amdohi Above 50% Kanksa 1 Anandapur 50% 2 Aroti Above 50% 2 Jotgoria 50% 3 Amlouka Above 50% 4 Tilabona Above 50% Galsi-I 1 Pursa 90% 5 Rangamati Above 50% 2 Manaharsujapur 80% 3 Bilaspur 60% Barabani 1 Madanpur 67.65% 4 Bondutin 65% 2 Khoshnagar 53.58% 5 Kalyanpur 80% 6 Khanpara 60% Jamuria 1 Dershermohan 50% 7 Simnory 55% 2 Rakhakura 50% 8 Rabadi 60% 9 Bhimsara 65%

Salanpur 1 Kalipathar 61% 10 Jogulipara 75% 2 Brindabani 77% 11 krishnarampur 75%

12 Sodpur 55%

Raniganj

No Mouza having above 50% Minority Population 13 Dharampur 70%

14 Bamunara 60% 15 Ghagra 75% 16 Serorai 60% 17 Puratongram 55% 18 Sundalpur 70% 19 Haripur 60% 20 Purandargarh 55% Katwa-I 1 Srikhanada 55.30% Ketugram-I 1 Chenchuria Above 50% 2 Khayerhat 100.00% 2 Majhina Above 50% 3 Khajurdihi 63.12% 3 Mahula Above 50% 4 Bandhmura 55.90% 4 Ankhona Above 50% 5 Karajgram 54.04% 5 Moregram Above 50% 6 Khaitan 72.60% 6 Cinishpur Above 50% 7 Mera 89.54% 7 Biruri Above 50% 8 Aurangabad 97.98% 8 Kojalsa Above 50% 9 Arjundihi 97.53% 9 Katchutia Above 50% 10 Murgram Above 50% Katwa-II 1 Islampur 66% 11 Amgoria Above 50% 2 Pikepara 78% 12 Ujjalpur Above 50% 3 Natungram 73% Ketugram-I 13 Kulut Above 50% Katwa-II 4 Multikrishnapur 55% 14 Sripur Above 50% 5 Baramegachi 57% 15 Bamundi Above 50% 6 Bhatna- Pekua 99% 16 Raikha Above 50% 7 Simulgachi 99% 17 Khanji Above 50% 8 Chandpur 98.50% 18 Khaspur Above 50% 9 Mallickpur 96.60%

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19 Ehiapur Above 50% 10 Ramdaspur 55% 20 Kanchra Above 50% 11 Barakulgachi 82% 21 Khalipur Above 50% Ketugram-II 1 Natungram 100% Mongalkote 1 Palligram 55% 2 Charsujapur 100% 2 Palligram 99% 3 Mougram 51% 3 Gotistha 56% 4 Kerguri 51% 4 Gotistha 56% 5 Srirampur 50% 5 Lakhuria 98% 6 Ketugram 50% 6 Lakhuria 90% 7 Mongalkote 80% Purbasthali-II 1 krishnabati Above 50% 8 Mongalkote 55% 2 Kharduttapara Above 50% 9 Mongalkote 55% 3 Hapania Above 50% 10 Chanak 60% 4 Hatsuri Above 50% 11 Gotistha 55% 5 Pathangram Above 50% 12 Jhiloo-1 53% 6 Gachha Above 50% 13 Jhiloo-1 51% 7 Harispur Above 50% 14 kaichor-1 50% 8 Madhupur Above 50% 15 Bhallagram 70% 9 Chahatni Above 50% 16 Bhallagram 55% 10 Palla Santoshpur Above 50% 17 Bhallagram 55% 11 Patuli Above 50% 18 Bhallagram 52% 12 Nowpara Above 50% 19 Simulia-1 98% 13 Atpara Above 50% 20 Simulia-2 55% 14 Majida Above 50% 21 Majigram 52% 15 Uttar Laxmipur Above 50% 22 Negon 70% 16 Singhari Above 50% 23 Kshirogram 98% 17 Ukhura Above 50% 24 Kishrogram 51% 18 Jogeswarpure Above 50% 25 Negon 90% 19 Sarangpur Above 50% 26 Jhiloo-1 98% 20 Nimdaha Above 50% 27 Jhiloo-2 90% 21 Nakadaha Above 50% 28 Jhiloo-2 98% 22 Palasberia Above 50% 29 Jhiloo-2 96% 23 Joykrishnapur Above 50% 30 Jhiloo-2 94% 24 Mahadebpur Above 50% 31 Jhiloo-2 50% 25 Uttarnowpara Above 50% 32 Majigram 98% 26 Bodsa Above 50% 27 Mukshimpara Above 50% Purbasthali-I 1 Minapur 28 Bararpara Above 50% 2 Gokarna 3 Bogpur Kalna-I 1 Alagarh Above 50% 4 Dharmatala 2 Bijara Above 50% 5 Bagpur 3 Rustampur 100% 6 Seora Gharia 4 Sikarpur Above 50% 7 Kushgona 5 Utra Above 50% 8 Ghola 6 Kailaspur Above 50% 9 Arjunpukur 7 Rasulpur Above 50% 10 Kamalpur 8 Npwpara Above 50% 11 Baradhek

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9 Chaubharia Above 50% 12 Khashgram 10 Bheropara Above 50% 13 Islampur 11 Narayanpur Above 50% 14 Sankra 12 Karpurdanga 100% 15 Mahesgoria 13 Hasanabad 100% 16 Jialgoria 14 Parsahapur Above 50% 17 Sinjuli 15 Pathurdanga Above 50% 18 Nasarathpur 16 Muragachha Above 50% 17 Nowpara Above 50% 18 Manikhar Above 50% Monteswar 1 Atashpur Above 50% 19 Pardupsa 100% 2 Jaipur Above 50% 20 Kharian 100% 3 Lohar Above 50% 21 Dubsa Above 50% 4 Patikeldanga Above 50% 22 Natungram Above 50% 5 Ruigaria Above 50% 23 Mirzapur Above 50% 6 Mousa Above 50% 24 Gram Kalna Above 50% 7 Sahajadpur Above 50% 25 Malatipur Above 50% 8 Hurkodanga Above 50% 26 Bridhyapara Above 50% 9 Natungram Above 50% 27 Sankati Above 50% 10 Barahkalami Above 50% 28 Krishnapur Above 50% 11 Bigha Above 50% 12 Ibrambad Above 50% Kalna- II 1 Dafarpur Above 50% 13 Chak Brakhapur Above 50% 2 Maneswarpur Above 50% 14 Uttardihi Above 50% 3 Omarpur Above 50% 15 Masdanga Above 50% 4 Kadamba Above 50% 16 Kaigram Above 50% 5 Sadpukur Above 50% 17 Mirgahar Above 50% 6 Arjuna Above 50% 18 Baruna Above 50% 7 Angarson Above 50% 19 Purunia Above 50% 8 Kalyanpur Above 50% 20 Raigram Above 50% 9 Rahatpur Above 50% 21 Mamudpur Above 50% 10 Kelenoi Above 50% 22 Kharampur Above 50% 11 Kanobamni Above 50% 23 Balijuri Above 50% 12 Chotopata Above 50% 24 Kusumgram Above 50% 13 Matherpur Above 50% 25 Kulut Above 50% 14 Nasipur Above 50% 26 Akbar Nagar Above 50% 15 Dampara Above 50% 27 Kanchan Danga Above 50% 16 barabaharkuli Above 50% 28 Safarda Above 50% 17 Dashnin Nowpara Above 50% 29 Mulgram Above 50% 18 Nowpara Above 50% 30 Bhadai Above 50% 19 Patilpara Above 50% 31 Jhikra Above 50% 20 Baitepara Above 50% 32 Tajapur Above 50% 21 Narunga Above 50% 33 Bhagra Above 50% 22 Bastipur Above 50% 34 Bhojpur Above 50% 23 Khikra Above 50% 35 Tulla Above 50% 24 Kutubpur Above 50% 36 Bhandarpur Above 50% 25 Osmanpur Above 50% 37 Isna Bujburuk Above 50% 26 Shibpur Above 50% 38 Barandala Above 50% 27 Tola Above 50% 39 Laskarpur Above 50%

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28 Mainaguri Above 50% 40 Banpur Above 50% 29 Panchrakhi Above 50% 41 Kuljora Above 50% Andal There is no mouza having Minority population above 50% 42 Sonagachi Above 50% N.B : Total no. mouza having minority population above 50% is 521 43 Ganguriea Above 50% 44 Bhelia Above 50%

45 Murulia Above 50% 46 Piagram Above 50% 47 Deangadi Above 50% 48 Bhanderbati Above 50%

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Annexure- II

Additional information and clarification required on the Multi-sectoral Development Plan (MsDP) of Burdwan District.

A. Clarification of general issue: -

(i) Indicate whether budget head for a Multi-sectoral development

programme (MsDP) has been opened and the budgeted amount reflected against

it.

(ii) If an existing scheme of the State which is being proposed under the

MsDP plan, then the physical and financial achievement of the previous year and

the agency/department implementing it would need to be indicated.

(iii) MsDP envisages topping up of CSS like IAY (housing), TSP (toilets),

RWSP (water supply), SSA/KGBV, etc. (literacy), RGGBY (household

electricity) and SGSY (income generating activities), up gradation of ITI (skill

development) which would lead to improvement of the parameters that resulted

in the identification of this district. The flow of fund and physical achievement of

these CSSs in the previous year for this district should be indicated. This

information necessary to gauge the extent of annual coverage and its adequacy

for bridging the deficit besides ascertaining the capacity of the district to absorb

any additional fund proposed.

(iv) For existing CSS having State contribution, indicate the availability or the

willingness of the State to provide the State share.

(v) If a new scheme is being proposed, information on whether the State

Government is committed to provide the recurring expenditure, the availability of

staff, land, institutional arrangement for operation and management of such

scheme/institute being setup would need to be provided along with justification.

(vi) The Department/agency, which would be implementing the proposed

scheme should be clearly indicated.

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(vii) For each item, the plan should indicate how duplication would be

prevented, if MsDP fund is proposed to be provided as an additionality to

existing CSS or a scheme of the State Government.

(viii) Please indicate whether the villages where physical assets created/benefits

would be given are villages with substantial minority population. The percentage

of minority population of each of these villages would need to be indicated or

specific commitment given that the villages having the highest concentration of

minority population are being selected.

(ix) Indicate specifically that the State is committed to operate and maintain

the physical assets created under the programme from its own resources.

(x) If certain development deficits ranked higher in the list of deficits in the

baseline survey has not been proposed to be taken up, the reasons for not doing so

and bypassing it would need to be given in the plan.

(xi) Fulfillment of condition at Para 15.1 of the scheme has to be given item

wise by the state government.

B. Specification clarification and information on the projects proposed:-

(i) Construction of Madarsah Shiksha Kendra: According to baseline survey,

district average in literacy rate is better than national average but district has

proposal for the construction of Madarsah Shiksha Kendra (MSK). It needs to be

indicated whether the MSKs proposed are existing MSKs to be upgraded or new

MSKs are to be setup. Are such institutes owned by the Government or are they

private institutes? Has the unit cost been approved by the state Government?

What are the item included in such construction – give details on structure and

designed of building, specification, various facilities, etc. How will duplication be

prevented? Justify how such schools will improve education.

(ii) What are SSKs? Are they Government owned? Are such schools not

covered by SSA? Plan has not provided details about previous years found from

other sources for construction of SSKs and the target achieved by other funds.

Has the unit cost been approved by the state Government? What are the item

included in such construction – give details on structure and design of building,

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specification, various facilities, etc. How will duplication be prevented? Justify

how such schools will improve education.

(iii) There are 34 vocational training centres in this district run by the technical

education department. They must be having an accredited system of certification

awarded to passing out trainees. Can such training centre be strengthened or

upgraded instead of establishing a new centre which will require managerial staff,

trainers, recurring expenditure commitment from the state? Why is establishing a

new centre preferred over existing ones?

(iv) Is the specification and design for the construction of an Anganwadi

centre based on the guidelines prescribed by the Ministry of Women and Child

Development? Are such centres constructed by the State Government and if so,

what is the unit cost approved by the state Government. Are they going to be

located in villages/localities having the highest proportion of minority population?

Please give list of villages. Justify how providing such structure will help improve

the services provided to women and children.

(v) Is the unit cost proposed for construction of PHSCs approved under

NRHM and whether the fund required from MsDP is as per the funding ratio

between the Centre and the State?

(vi) The health facility is above the national average in this district. Though

construction of extended health centre is under MsDP to create awareness about

the promoting health care to reduce IMR/MMR is proposed. These centers will be

owned and managed by the concerned gram Panchayat. Is the proposal for setting

up extended heath centre an existing scheme of the State Government? If so, what

is the experience of the State Government regarding its performance? If it is a

new scheme, is the state going to pay the salary of the staff, recurring expenditure,

etc.

(vii) Is the tube well proposed to be taken up under ARWSP? Is the unit cost

proposed approved under ARWSP or by the State Government? Indicate the

availability of financing the state share.

(viii) Availability of safe drinking water has been identified as the 7th deficit in

the baseline survey of the district. The district plan should clearly indicate

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whether the places where pumps are to be installed are in the minority

concentrated areas.

(ix) The baseline survey has ranked sanitation as the 4th deficit in the district.

Construction of masonry drain is planned in place of prevailing kachcha drain to

improve the condition of sanitation but the details about the locality and the main

beneficiary of the masonry drain need to be indicated.

(x) The baseline survey has ranked to total work participation as the 5th deficit

in the district. To improve work participation among minority, a market linkage

cum promotional center at Kotwa is proposed for creating a link between the

artisans and actual buyers/exporters. According to plan this project will be

operated and maintained by co-operative society. It may be clearly stated whether

co-operative society has already been formed for this purpose.

(xi) The baseline survey has ranked female work participation as the 3rd deficit

in the district. To improve work participation among minority women a

subsidy/assistance @ Rs. 1.00 lakh per Self Help Group belonging to BPL

families for minority women is proposed on the pattern of already existing Mahila

Samridhi Yojana (MSY) but details about the previous year coverage, feasibility

and beneficiary of the MSY need to be indicated. Further how this plan will help

in increasing work participation may be indicated.

(xii) Plan for mobile health van has not clearly stated about the identification of

PHC in the minority concentrated areas where these vans should be deployed.

(xiii) Proposal for the special health mela does not contain details about the

format design contents and mode of creating awareness need to be indicated.

(xiv) Indicate the quantum of assistance received by this district under NREG

last year and why it is insufficient. Is these roads not covered by PMGSY? Are

the roads critical links that helps in optimizing the operation of services and

facilities?

(xv) Is the proposal for solar energy a CSS of the Ministry of New and

Renewable Energy? What is the cost sharing pattern the eligibility for getting

such benefit under the scheme of the Ministry of NRE?

(xvi) Work participation is identified as a 5th deficit area in the baseline survey

of the district. One vocational training & career guidance centre is proposed in the

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Katwa which is a minority concentrated Sub-Division of the district on public

private partnership model for imparting vocational training to the women

belonging to the minority community. The detailed about concept of private and

public partnership model and its mode of operation need to be indicated.

(xvii) Who will run (staff, recurring expenditure), operate, manage, maintain

such working women’s hostel? Is there not any central Government scheme for

such type of hostels (perhaps, M/o Women & Child Development)?

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Annexure- III Government of West Bengal

Office of the District Magistrate, Burdwan (Minority Affairs cell) Fax No 0342 2568566

Memo No 1194 /MAME Cell Dated, Burdwan 04.09.08 From : Subir Kumar Chatterjee,

Additional District Magistrate (Dev) Burdwan To : Sri Ashis Joshi,

Director, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India. 11th Floor, Paryavaran Bhavan,

CGO complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 1100 03

Sub: Submission of additional information and clarifications as

sought for under MsDP for the district of Burdwan. Ref: Your letter No 3/21(8)/2008-PP-I dated 01.09.08

Sir,

As directed, the additional information and clarification as sought for in your Memo No referred above for the district of Burdwan is submitted herewith for your kind perusal. Enclo: As stated.

Yours faithfully, Sd/-

Additional District Magistrate (Dev), Burdwan

Memo No 1194 /1(1)/MAME Cell Dated, Burdwan 22.08.08 Copy forwarded to the following for favour of kind information to the Secretary to the Government of West Bengal, Minority Affairs and Madrasah Education department, Writers’ Building, Kolkata – 700 001. Sd/-

Additional District Magistrate (Dev), Burdwan

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Additional information and clarification on the Multi-Sectoral Development Plan (MsDP) of Burdwan District.

A. Clarification on general issue :-

(i) Budget Head for Multi-sectoral Development Programme and reflection

of budget amount is the purview of the Government of West Bengal.

(ii) Physical and financial achievement of the existing scheme of the district

during the year of 2007-08 being proposed under MsDP.

Achievement Name of scheme Physical Financial (Rs.

in lakh)

Implementing agency/department

Crop demonstration 594 hec. 33.60 Agriculture Department.

Cluster Shallow Tube well

432 nos. 1242.00 BCW & M.I Department

Bituminous Road & Culvert

304 Km. & 201 nos.

(New)

518 Km.(Up-gradated)

5430.00

18400.00

Zilla Parishad

P.W.D & PW ( R )

Indira Avas Yojna 7676 (New) 3921 (Up gradated)

3274.75 Gram Panchayats

Drinking water Tube well 677 nos. 317.08 Zilla Parishad & PHE Dte.

Construction of Sub-centre

93 790.50 Panchayat Samities

Constriction of extended Health Centre

nil nil nil

Construction of SSK 26 nos. 78.00 Panchayat Samity Health Mela 320 320 PRI

Mobile Health Van nil nil Community Toilet 5288 nos. 628.29 Zilla Parishad

Water Testing Laboratory 18 nos. 16.75 Panchayat Samity M S Y 3009 nos. 300.90 W.B S.C.S.T Fin. Dev.

Corporation

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(iii) Flow of fund and physical achievement of CSS during 2007-08 which

Correlated with MSDP. (Rs. in lakh)

Name of scheme Flow of fund (Rs. in lakh)

Physical achievement

Financial achievement

IAY 2545.65 7676 (new), 3921 (up gradated)

3274.75

TSP 665.46 16580 nos. 643.96

ARWSP 5535.81 677 nos. T. Wells, 48 nos. W. Supply

Scheme

4982.30

SSA 5622.19 85.45% 4804.61 RGGVY 0.00 0.00 0.00

(iv) Availability of state contribution for existing CSS :

(Rs. in lakh) Name of scheme State share availed during

2007-08 Remarks

IAY 636.41 TSP 219.60

ARWSP 1383.95 SSA 1405.55

State Government is being moved to take a decision

in this regard.

(v) Extended health centre will be managed and maintained by the concerned

Gram Panchayat. The said centres would be manned by the trained

Dhai/Link person who are presently, engaged under NRHM and

remuneration of the linked persons/trained Dhai is being provided under

this programme. The land for the new schemes will be provides by PRIs .

(vi) The proposed schemes as laid down in MsDP will be implemented by the

PRIs excepting the following schemes which will be implemented either by

the department or by the NGO.

Scheme Proposed implementing agency Crop Demonstration Agriculture Department

Thrasher for SHG Agriculture Department Seed testing centre Agriculture Department

Working women Hostel NGO Vocational Training and carrier guidance centre NGO

Training for skill development and exposure visit

District Industries centre

Water testing Laboratory NGO

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Seed testing centre Agriculture Department Additional Mobile Health Van NGO

Community Toilet Block Woman SHG with support of G.P Solar Energy Demonstration Concern Committee with the help of PRIs

(vii) To prevent duplication the proposed scheme under MsDP, schemes will be

implemented in such areas where existing CSS or the schemes of the State

Government are not provided.

(viii) The villages having the highest concentration of Minority population are

being considered for providing benefits or creating physical assets under

the MsDP. The percentage of Minority population of these villages ranges

from 50% to cent percent of the total population of the villages. List of the

Minority villages is enclosed in annexure-I. The beneficiary villages would

be selected out of this list.

(ix) The physical assets to be created under the programme would be operated

and maintained either by PRls or Beneficiary Committees/ NGOs, from it’s

our resources.

(x) Development deficits in “Electricity in houses” and ‘Female work

participation rate’ ranked 1st and 3rd respectively in the list of deficits of

baseline survey has not been proposed to be taken up in the MsDP. The

clarification for doing so has already been given in the ‘foreword’ and

‘summary’ in the plan. Electricity in houses has not been considered as the

total electrification programme would be under taken under RGGVY.

Income generation/economic activities also has not been proposed under

MsDP since those would be covered under the prevailing CSS fund e.g.

NGRGS as well as schematic fund of Department of the State Government.

(XI) Fulfillment of condition at Para 15.1 of programme and guidelines for

preparation of MsDP for minority Concentration Districts may be made by

the Government of West Bengal. However, we may ensure the following

condition.

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a. District Level Committee for implementation of the 15 Point

Programme for the Welfare of the Minority has already been

constituted.

b. Regular meetings are held with the Line dept, Banks and other

stakeholder to monitor review and evaluate the allocation spent for

the minority community in the true spirit of the Govt guidelines to

this effect.

c. The funds to be provided for MCDs constitute the additional

resources for this district of Burdwan and do not substitute State

Government funds flowing to the district.

d. The assets to be created out of MsDP are planned to be operated

and maintained by community participation/members of Minority

SHGs/Gram Unnayan Samity and PRIs, NGOs by involving the user

group with a sense of ownership among them.

B. Special clarification and information on the projects proposed:-

(I) The MSKs proposed in the MSDP are existing un-recognized Madrasha which are

to be upgraded and thus to be converted into a recognized MSK in view of bringing it

into main stream of modern education.

The institutes are not owned by the Government. The ownership lies with the

Minority Community. The unit cost has been approved by District Planning

Committee in anticipation of post facts approval of the State Government. The unit

cost has also been discussed in the state level empowered committee meeting.

Two class room building with staircase and verandah covering 1144 sq ft with

RCC frame structure and toilet facilities will be provided under the programme. As no

fund is available from State Government for the construction there is no scope of

duplication. Students of un-recognized Madrasha are not getting admission in middle

or high School in the general education system and thus being dropped out from the

Schooling system. The MSKs will have the same status of a Upper Primary School and

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the students of these schools are eligible for getting admission in Secondary level. As

such the drop out rate of Minority students will be minimized and the level of

education amongst the minority community will surely improve.

(ii) Sishu Siksha Kendras are the State owned programme are community managed

school where primary education is given to the children who could not have access

to the primary school for various reasons. Though the Government is not the owner of

the SSK, the school has the same status that of a Government owned/sponsored

primary school. The schemes are covered by SSA in respect of payment of

honorarium to the para teacher but SSA fund is not adequate to support the

infrastructural requirement. 26 nos. SSKs have been constructed involving Rs. 78.00

lakh during 2007-08 out of MPLADS and BEUP fund.

The unit cost has been approved by the District Planning Committee in anticipation

of the post facto approval by the State Government. The unit cost has also been

discussed in the state level Empowered Committee meeting few days back.

Single storied four class room with front open platform with brick foundation structure

and RCC roof has been proposed under this scheme. Over and above, 961 square feet

building with drinking water and toilets facilities has been designed. To prevent

duplication, SSKs under MsDP will be constructed in such Minority villages where

fund for such construction is not available from other sources.

As SSKs are demand driven, primary school are opened with the community

initiative, construction of classroom for these schools will certainly improve the

quality of education like universal enrolment, universal retention.

(iii) Though there are 34 vocational training centres in the district, but Katwa Sub-

Division has only two such centres. The vocational training centres are situated in

Higher Secondary Schools and offer plus 2 standard of Technical Education. One

vocational training and carrier guidance centre is therefore proposed for Katwa Sub-

Division which will be capable of imparting above plus 2 level technical education.

Moreover, up-gradation of Vocational Training Centres operating in the district in the

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selected High/Higher secondary schools in different locations is being made from

departmental budget.

The proposed Centre is an innovative scheme and will be maintained as well as

operated by NGO selected after due selection procedure in consultation with the

District Planning Committee, in the complex of a Government sponsored Polytechnic

namely Bengal Institute of Technology (BIT) at Katwa out of its own resources. The

district authority will only provide the partial cost of infrastructure and ensure at least

admission of 50 percent Minority students with an emphasis for girl students of the

minority community over and above 60 students intake per course which includes

hardware/software part of computers, Fashion Technology/designing, electrical

wiremen, bio engineering & bio technology and other courses keeping in view of the

demand generated by the upcoming industries. The scheme will be implemented on

Public private partnership model.

(iv) The specification and designs for construction of Anganwadi centre has been

approved by the State Government. The State Government is constructing such

Centre with DFID/RIDF-XIII assistance with unit cost of Rs. 4.0 lakh.

The proposed anganwadi centres are planned to be located in villages having the

larger proportion of Minority population.

ICDS is the unique programme for the development and welfare of Mothers and

Children started with the objective to improve the nutritional and health status of

children in the age group of 0 to 6 years laying the foundation for proper

Psychological, physical and social development of the children. The programme

targeted to enhance the mother’s capabilities to take care of the nutritional needs of

her children thereby reducing the incidence of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition

and school dropout.

At present the services as envisaged in the programme is delivered by Anganwadi

Workers and Helper at a focal point in the village called Anganwadi Centre. The

package of Services offered under ICDS are:-

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1) Supplementary Nutrition (SNP)

2) Immunization

3) Health Check-Up

4) Referral Services

5) Health and Nutrition Education

6) Non-formal Pre-School Education

Approximately 2500nos. of AWCs have been constructed by utilizing fund of

different sources and a few are under construction.

The striking difference between the AWW to run centre under tree and the AWW to

run Centre under concrete ceiling is that the sense of dignity that leaves impact in

delivery of services. The sanitation facility, kitchen and storage facility in the

constructed AWCs are the reason to make the services possible to touch the target.

Pre school education is imparted in a more disciplined way. The pre school

material, the teaching and learning materials are used in the Constructed AWCs,

which is not possible in AWCs under the Sky or even in the rented or free

accommodation where the Accommodation is unsuitable.

For effective delivery of the services all the Anganwadi Centres needs own building

where the children would find space for development, the right they deserve to be

fulfilled.

(v) The unit cost proposed for construction of Sub centres is in conformity with

the estimated cost sanctioned by NRHM where cent percent fund is provided under

the said programme.

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(vi) Presently, health sub centres is located to cater the need for 6000 population

based on 1991 census. With the increase in population over the years, need for

extending the benefit being provided by such health sub centres has increased

paved the way for contemplating setting up extended health centre in the villages to

give the villages greater access to the health facility particularly the facility of

Institutional delivery and mobile health check up camps by the health workers

presently engaged by the Health dept. Creation of extended health sub centre is an

innovating scheme of the district under MsDP. No new staff needs to be recruited

to man the said scheme. The existing staff of the health dept and the link

persons/trained Dhai engaged out of NRHM fund would be deployed in such

extended sub centres.

(vii) No, construction of extended health centre is not an existing scheme of the

State government. Setting up of extended Health Centre is an innovative idea. The

objective for setting up of extended Health Centres in Minority dominated remote

villages/hamlets in the district of Burdwan is to create awareness for promoting

health care to reduce IMR/MMR. As the existing health centres have been found to

be and inadequate & in some cases inaccessible (owing to remotely located) to cater

need based health services to the people of those areas, it has been felt essential to

set up Extended Health Centres to abridge this critical gap. These health centres will

be maintained & managed by the Gram Panchayats since the primary responsibilies

of the PRI is to cater promotive and preventive health care facilities under the over-

all supervision/ patronization of the health personnel to reduce IMR/MMR. It is

planned to make it operational with the trained Dhai/linked person who are

presently engaged sub centre wise by the NRHM funding.

(viii) No, the scheme for installation of Tube well proposed in this plan is not

under ARWSP. It is intended to set up tube wells for drinking water purpose for

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Minority people in addition to ARWSP funding. The unit cost has been approved by

the district administration in anticipation of approval of the State Government.

(ixi) The places where tube wells are to be installed only in the Minority

concentrated areas. The installation places will be selected from the list of villages

depicted in Annexure-I.

(x) Masonry drain is proposed in place of Kachcha drain to improve the

condition of sanitation in the minority concentrated villages. The locality of the

proposed masonry drains are Muslim Para which will be selected as per locally felt

need from the list of minority villages enclosed in Annexure- I.

(xi) Existing cooperative society will be tied up with due selection process by

District Planning Committee for operation and maintenance of proposed market

linkage cum promotional centre on receipt of approval under MsDP.

(xii) Rs. 300.90 lakh has been disbursed during the year 2007-08 under MSY to

3909 beneficiary belonging to SC, ST and OBC category for different income

generation schemes like Paddy processing, Goatary, milch cow, weaving, Grocery,

readymade garments etc. The plan would increase female work participation rate as

the intervention proposed will help the women of minority community to get the

margin money for bankable schemes and thus inspire them to get involved in

income generation.

(xiii) The mobile health van is planned which will be deployed in minority

dominated blocks of the district.

(xiv) Format Design of Health Mela and mode of creating awareness.

Holding of health Mela in the Minority concentrated areas is also an

innovative scheme to create awareness and dissemination of information to the

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community so that they can have greater access to the present health delivery

system. Recently, we held health mela in each sub divisional head quarters by

providing stalls in regard to the following health parameters:

a. Water borne diseases and need for potable drinking water. Problem of

Arsenic and other contamination in some part of the district.

b. Vector control diseases like Malaria, Filaria, Chickengunia, and Hoping

cough etc and prevention thereof.

c. Blindness control programme and IOL Surgeries and existing facilities in

Govt health units.

d. RCH programme.

e. JSY programme with provision for ANC check up for the pregnant mother

upto two children and Referral transport.

f. RNTCP programme, DOTs treatment.

g. Awareness about HIV/AIDS

h. Institutional delivery to reduce IMR/MMR – facility available upto the

level of sub centre.

i. About regular holding of Mobile health camps in the hard reached area

j. Medical Facility being provided in the Sub centres/PHCs/BPHcs/SD

Hospital and other referral hospital.

(xv) Around Rs. 131.00 crore received as assistance under NREGS during the

year 2007-08, which includes Rs.20 Crores. from Burdwan Zilla Parishad and Rs. 30

crs. from Poorva Mednipur district. We incurred Rs. 100.3 crs. under the scheme

during the last F.Y. while balance Rs. 30 crs. Had been sub allotted to different PIAs.

The fund is not sufficient to create bituminous road in minority concentration areas

as there is stipulation of utilization of fund for labour intensive works. The proposed

roads are not covered under PMGSY as we are now considering the roads for the

village having 1000 + population.

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The planned roads are proposed for the villagers having 500 + population

because the roads are critical links that helps in optimizing the operation of services

as well as the facilities.

(xvi) The proposal for solar energy is an innovative scheme and therefore does not

come under the central sector scheme. Hence there is no such cost sharing pattern.

(xvii) Concept of Public Private Partnership model and its mode of operation.

As explained in SN B(iii), one vocational training & career guidance centre has been

proposed in Katwa which is a minority concentrated sub division on Public Private

Partnership model (PPP). There is a Govt sponsored Polytechnic in Katwa having

fairly good infrastructure in regard to Engineering Laboratories, Workshops,

Computers and other Logistics support. We are planning to involve a reputed NGO

working for the minority welfare to that polytechnic for undertaking Short term

Vocational training (STVT) to the minority student particularly girls students in the

field of hardware/software part of Computers, Fashion Technology/designing,

electrical wiremen, bio engineering & bio technology etc by providing additional

infrastructure to that Govt sponsored Polytechnic out of MsDP fund. A working

committee comprising with the representatives of Polytechnic, NGOs, PRI and

Community participation may be constituted for the purpose setting up modalities to

run, operate, manage and maintain the courses of STVT and career guidance centre

under MsDP. In western part of Burdwan, new Industries are coming up. We will

request them to indicate the courses of their choice as per demand of the industries so

that a direct interface could be established with the courses and the Industries for

maximum absorption of the successful turn outs.

(xvii) Setting up of working women hostels are planned under MsDP in the three sub

divisions namely, Asansol, Durgapur & Burdwan Sadar. The hostel will run on self

financing model. The provision of infrastructure is planned to be made out of MsDP.

The local ULB will be given the charge of day to day maintenance.

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