Encouraged by the tremendous impact of Poverty alleviation programmes, the Government of Andhra Pradesh has proposed Rs 7,585 crore Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project (APRIGP) to the World Bank for the last giant leap forward to leverage the powerful eco system generated to make the State poverty free by 2017.
A World Bank team which visited SERP from 15th to 19th of this month on Identification Mission to work out potential areas of funding under APRIGP, called on the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, on Friday afternoon at Secretariat.
The World Bank Team consisting Parmesh Shah, Task Team Leader and Sitaramachandra, Team member thanked the Chief Minister for the support and encouragement for the all poverty alienation programmes in the state. They said that it is a golden time for poverty alienation programmes and the mobile application got golden award. The world’s best m-governance programme is being implemented in the State.
They have also complimented and said that Andhra Pradesh is the top in the Aadhar project in the country.
As per the APRIGP proposal, the World Bank and State Government will spend Rs 750 crore each in the next five years and the additional funds of Rs 6,085 crore would be raised from other sources, including commercial banks. Of this Rs 309 crore will be spent to enhance the livelihoods of Poorest of the Poor households; Rs 127 crore for Second generation institutions of the poor; Rs 40 crore for Jobs for Rural Youth and Rs 234 crore on Health and Nutrition.
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has supported South Asia Poverty Alleviation Project (SAPAP) in 20 Mandals of 3 districts of Anantapur, Kurnool and Mahabubnagar in Andhra Pradesh.
The World Bank-supported Andhra Pradesh Districts Poverty Initiatives Project (APDPIP) was initiated in 316 Mandals of 6 districts of Anantapur, Chittoor, Mahabubnagar, Adilabad, Srikakulam and Vizianagaram in 2000 and was concluded in December 2006.
This was extended to 16 other districts in 2003 as Andhra Pradesh Rural Poverty Reduction Project (APRPRP) which was Concluded in September 2011.APDPIP and APRPRP completed 11 years with outstanding achievements in terms of: Social Mobilization, Institution Building, Capacity Building, Financial Inclusion, Livelihoods Expansion, Social Inclusion, Women Empowerment and Human Development Indicators etc.
Indira Kranthi Patham (IKP) has mobilized 1.15 crore women into 10.59 lakh Self Help Groups (SHGs); 38,821 Villages Organizations (VOs); 1098 Mandals Samakyas (MSs); in 22 Zilla Samakhyas (ZSs) in the State.
Corpus of Rs 5,872 crore rotated amongst the SHGs; Bank loans to the tune of Rs.47,394 crore was facilitated to the SHGs. The CESS End Term Assessment of APRPRP has shown an additional 10 percentage points reduction of poverty over 5 years compared to rural households that did not participate in SHGs.
Chief Secretary Minnie Mathew, Principal Secretary (Rural Development) R Subramaniam, SERP CEO Rajasekhar, Special Secretary to CM S S Rawat, OSD to CM G Murali also attended the meeting. (INN)