Bharat Nirman

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Bharat Nirman is an Indian business plan for creating basic rural infrastructure. Bharat Nirman, an organization, ever since its inception in 1980 by Late CA Sri M.C.Bhandari (Kolkata), has been an active participant in the India Growth Story through its Advocacy Role for the Policy Makers and Regulators of the Country. It also comprises projects on irrigation, roads (Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana), housing (Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana), water supply (National Rural Drinking Water Programme), electrification (Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana) and telecommunication connectivity.^[1]

Bharat Nirman also plans to distribute safe drinking water to all the underdeveloped areas. Other developmental steps include telephone access covering 40% of the rural areas of India by the year 2014 and Internet access to 2.5 lakh panchayats. Currently, as many as 66,822 villages are without telephone connection. A very basic constitution of human survival is housing. The housing programme is thus a very important strategy for alleviating poverty and destitution in India. The Ministry of Rural development is implementing the Indira Awaas Yojana scheme for rural housing development programme.

The government has been launching some programmes to uplift the rural poor since independence. Every five-year plan had had some allocation with the rural poor. The ICDS scheme to distribute nutritional food to small children, the midday meals programme to attract rural children, etc failed to yield 100% result. The BNVs will create awareness for better transparency and accountability in implementation of the Government’s programme by disseminating of information and help in speeding up the delivery of public services in the rural areas.

As a true representative of the Country with a large membership base of more than 25000 direct and indirect members, Bharat Nirman has forged ahead leveraging its legacy with its concern over making India most powerful country across the globe by regular interactions, Seminars, Conference and Conclaves allow healthy and constructive discussions between the Government, Industry and International Agencies bringing out the Vitals for Growth.

At a Global level we have been working with the Embassies and High Commissions in India to bring in the International Best Practices and Business Opportunities. In the process we have organized more than 150 events including Seminars/Exhibitions and Award shows and takes the credit of oldest working NGO across the Country working on its own with no government aid (mostly through small sponsorship and personal support).

The main role of these BNVs is:

1. To communicate with the rural people
2. To encourage them to get involved in developmental processes
3. To help the rural people in getting the benefits of the flagship programme
4. To bridge the gap between welfare scheme and actual implementation
5. To act as a monitoring group
6. To help promote Livelihood Generating Activities (LGAs)
7. To coordinate between the Government Agencies and people in general.^[2]

Objectives[]

Bharat Nirman is a business plan for rural infrastructure which was implemented by the Government of India in order to provide some basic amenities to the rural India.^[3]

Water Supply[]

Bharat Nirman was launched by the Government of India in 2005. Providing rural areas with safe drinking water facilities was one of the key objectives of the plan. It got implemented during 2005-06 to 2008-09 . The plan aimed to cover 55,067 un-covered and 3.31 lakh under developed areas with safe drinking water facilities. It also aimed to improve the quality standard of drinking water of 2.17 lakh areas which had poor quality water supplies.^[4]

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana marker in a village in Punjab

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana[]

The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) was launched on 25 December 2000. The primary objective of PMGSY is to provide good quality all-weather roads in all the rural areas where urban-rural road connectivity is found to be very weak.^[5] All unconnected habitations with a population of more than 500 persons has been provided connectivity by 2007.^[6]

Housing[]

The main objective is to provide housing facilities to the rural areas of India. According to the plan the government of India will construct 60 lac houses for the rural areas by 2009. The scheme under this is named as Indira Awaas Yojana and is governed by the Ministry of Rural Development. It is mainly sponsored by the central government. The ratio of the sponsorship between the center and the state is 75:25.^[7]

Telecom[]

This plan aims to supply telecommunication facilities to remote areas of rural areas. It aims in increasing the rural telecommunication facilities by 40%. It also aims to supply broadband and Bharat Nirman Seva Kendras in 2.5 lac Panchayats. According to this plan the government of India will connect each and every village by telecommunication facilities. The plan is taken care of by the Department of Telecom which fall under the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. There are 66,822 villages which are still left to be covered.^[8]

Rural Teledensity (for the month of February 2011)

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