The goal is to develop three adarsh grams or model villages by March 2019, of which one would be achieved by 2016. Thereafter, five such adarsh grams (one per year) will be selected and developed by 2024.
Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY), to be launched on the occasion of birth anniversary of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan, aims to keep the soul of rural India alive while providing people with quality access to basic amenities and opportunities to enable them to shape their own destiny.
The scheme is unique and transformative as it has a holistic approach towards development.
It envisages integrated development of the selected village across multiple areas such as agriculture, health, education, sanitation, environment, livelihoods etc.
Far beyond mere infrastructure development, SAGY aims at instilling certain values, such as people's participation, Antyodaya, gender equality, dignity of women, social justice, spirit of community service, cleanliness, eco-friendliness, maintaining ecological balance, peace and harmony, mutual cooperation, self-reliance, local self-government, transparency and accountability in public life, etc in the villages and their people so that they get transformed into models for others.
In districts where this unit size is not available, gram panchayats approximating the desirable population size may be chosen. If each MP adopts three villages, the scheme will be able to develop 2,379 gram panchayats over the next five years.