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🔆Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rurban Mission

✅ Rurban cluster – It is a cluster of geographically adjacent villages with a population of
about 25000 to 50000 in plain and coastal areas and 5000 to 15000 in desert, hilly or
tribal areas

◾️Objective

✅ To stimulate local economic development, enhance basic services and create well planned Rurban clusters
✅To attract investments in rural India and bridge the rural – urban divide
✅To develop 300 rurban clusters in the 5 years
✅Launch year – 2016

📍Institutional framework
✅National level – National Mission Directorate headed by Joint secretary, MoRD supported by a national mission management unit
✅State level – Department of rural development or any agency or any department nominated
by state government
✅District level – District project management unit at the district collector’s office
✅Cluster level – Cluster development and management unit

◾️Empowered committees

✅National level
Empowered committee headed by secretary, MoRD
It approves the ICAPs and critical gap funding submitted by states

✅State level
State level empowered committee headed by chief secretary
✅ It recommends or approves the ICAPs before submitting to the mission directorate
and empowered committee at national level

◾️Project funding
✅The project is being funded through convergence of various centrally sponsored, central
sector and state government schemes.
✅If there has been any gap between the availability of funds from schemes and desired funds for development then it would be fulfilled by Critical Gap Funding.
✅The CGF is capped at 30% of the project cost or Rs.30 Crore whichever is less
✅In desert, hilly and tribal areas, the CGF is capped at 30% of the project cost or Rs.15 Crore whichever is less
✅Innovation budget – An additional amount of 5% of CGF has been provided as innovation budget for research and development.

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