TWENTY POINT PROGRAMME
- The Twenty Point Programme (TPP) was conceived to improve the quality of life of the people, especially those living below the poverty line.
- The programme, initiated in 1975 was restructured in 1982, 1986 and 2006.
- The restructured programme, known as Twenty Point Programme (TPP)—2006, became operational with effect from 1st April, 2007.
TWENTY POINT PROGRAMME (TPP) – 2006
- The thrust of the Programme, restructured in 2006 is to eradicate poverty and improve the quality of life of the poor and the underprivileged people all over the country.
- The Programme covers various socio-economic aspects like poverty, employment, education, housing, agriculture, drinking water, afforestation and environment protection, energy to rural areas, welfare of weaker sections of the society, etc.
- The restructured Programme is called Twenty Point Programme (TPP)-2006 and its monitoring mechanism became operational with effect from 1st April, 2007.
- Twenty Point Programme (TPP)-2006 originally consisted of 20 points and 66 items being monitored individually by Central Nodal Ministries concerned.
- Out of the 66 items, 25 were for monthly monitoring, while the rest were to be monitored on annual basis by this Ministry.
- TPP-2006 has now completed seven years of its operationalization.
- One of the 66 items viz. “Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana (SGRY)” has since been subsumed into another item namely “National Rural Employment Guarantee Act” with effect from 15th April, 2008 and has been renamed as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act with effect from 31st December 2009.
- Out of the remaining 65 items, 20 items are now being monitored on monthly basis.
- The monthly information in respect of 16 items is collected from various States/UTs and for the remaining 4; the information is collected from concerned Central Nodal Ministries.
- The primary responsibility of implementation and monitoring of the programme lies with the State Governments / UT Administrations and the Central Nodal Ministries.
- The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation monitors the programmes / schemes covered under TPP—2006 on the basis of performance report received from State / UT Governments and Central Nodal Ministries.
- Monitoring Committees at State, District and Block Level, for monitoring the progress of implementation of all schemes have been constituted by most of the States/UTs as per the provisions of TPP—2006 Guidelines.
