Author(s): Pratima Tiwari and Neelma Kunwar

Abstract:
Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana was initiated to bring the Member of Parliament of all the political parties under the same umbrella while taking the responsibility of developing physical and institutional infrastructure in villages and turn them into model villages. Under this scheme, each Member of Parliament needed to choose one village each from the constituency that they represent, except their own village or their in laws village and fix parameters and make it a model village by 2016. Thereafter, they took two or three more villages and did the same by the time the next general elections come along in 2019, and thereafter, set themselves ten year long village or rural improvement projects. Villages are being offered smart schools, universal access to basic health facilities and Pucca housing to homeless villagers.