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size (500+ in plain areas, 250+ in North-Eastern and Himalayan States) in rural areas of country.
The PMGSY has completed two phases and third phase has been launched with the target
allocation of 1.25 lakh km all-weather road connectivity. More than 6.44 lakh km road length
has been constructed so far under the Scheme. The scheme has helped immensely in providing
access to basic services and lifting the income of rural masses.
Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan (GKRA)

10.47 GKRA was launched on 20 June, 2020 for a period of 125 days with a focus on 25
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works in 6 States. The Abhiyan was a convergent efforts between 12 different Central Ministries/
Departments. The major objectives of the initiative include the provision of livelihood
opportunities to returning migrants and similarly affected rural citizens, saturate villages with
public infrastructure viz. roads, housing, anganwadis, panchayat bhavans, various livelihood
assets and community complexes, among others and a basket of a wide variety of works. The
programme was intended to enhance long term livelihood opportunities. To address the hardship
of a large number of returnee migrant workers, district with a concentration of 25,000 and
more returnee migrant workers were selected. The Abhiyan started with a resource envelope of
` 50,000 crore with estimated employment generation of 40.34 crore person-days from 20 June,
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2020 to 22 October, 2020. The Abhiyan has helped in empowering villagers with livelihood
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opportunities in the selected 116 Districts of 6 States namely Bihar (32 districts), Jharkhand
(3 districts), Madhya Pradesh (24 districts), Odisha (4 districts), Rajasthan (22 districts) and
Uttar Pradesh (31 districts). The Abhiyan had achieved an employment generation of 50.78
crore persondays with a total expenditure incurred of ` 39,293 crore. In the pursuit of objectives
of the Abhiyan, assets created are detailed in Box 10.

Box 10: Public infrastructure and assets created under GKRA

• 1,59,697 Water conservation structures, 45,071 cattle shed, 4,848 Vermicomposting units, 2,854
Poultry Sheds, 34,005 farm ponds, 16,399 construction of wells
• 23,010 community sanitary complex
• 73,307 Plantation (including through CAMPA fund)
• 4,713 PM- Kisan Urja Suraksha evem Utthan Mahabhiyan works
• A total of 1402 kilometers road had been taken up under PM-Grameen Sadakh Yojana
• 4,81,210 rural houses, 3,607 Anganwadi Centers

• 25,645 works related to solid and liquid waste management
• 17,240 Works under Jal Jeevan Mission
• Works under Finance Commission fund of ` 5810.97 crore
• Works under PM Urja Ganga Project of ` 327.10 crore
• Construction and maintenance of a total of 7069 kilometers of road had been taken up under
National Highway Authority
• 68,136 candidates have been provided skill training through Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs)
during the Abhiyan
• Laying of 92,158 kilometers Fiber Optic Cable under Bharat Net
• Works through District Mineral Fund of ` 1042.82 crore had been taken up