Bhubaneswar: With a whopping over 3,5cr living in rural areas in the State, the Budget 2025-26 has rolled out a clear vision to bring around faster rural development.
The Budget laid emphasis both on rural infra, skilling and livelihoods to deliver an all round rural development so as to Odisha accomplish the 2036 target. The vision 2036 is clearly visible in the rural development outlay of the budget.
Here the major highlighst of Rural Push in Budget
- Rs 3,470 cr outlay under Mukhya Mantri Sadak Yojana
- Under the scheme, new roads will be constructed, improve existing roads
- The objective is to provide all weather connectivity to unconnected habitations including missing links.
- The allocation includes Rs.1100 crore under MMSY-Improvement of existing 10 R.D. roads
- Rs.1452 crore under MMSY-TRIP MMSY-Connecting Unconnected Villages in Difficult Areas (CUVDA) and MMSY-Connection of Missing Road Links (CMRL)
- Rs 1700cr for Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) to connect rural growth centers and agricultural markets to ensure better economic integration and development.
- Rs 2000cr for flagship initiative Setu Bandhana Yojana which aims to enhance rural connectivity through the construction of bridges on Rural roads and important Panchayat Samiti roads.
- Provision of Rs.2000 crore has been made in 2025-26 (BE) to meet the requirement of spill over as well as new bridge projects.
- Rs 55cr for Bridge-cum-weir projects to store adequate quantity of water during Monsoon inside the water streams for the purpose of minor irrigation, domestic use, livestock feeding, ground water recharging, creating Green Environment, livelihood of the local people by pisciculture, and to control soil erosion and reduce atmospheric temperature
- RFs 5000cr for Bikashita Gaon Bikashita Odisha scheme to enhance rural infrastructure with an in 3 years.
- The scheme will focus on improving road connectivity, civic amenities, educational facilities, and micro tourism development keeping development and politics separate (a jab at former BJD govt here).
- Rs.2000 crore for Bikashita Gaon Bikashita Odisha in 2025-26, the scheme is set to make a tangible impact on rural infrastructure and grassroots democracy.
- Rs 4500 cr for PMAY-Gramin to provide pucca houses to all eligible rural households
- In 2025-26, th egovt plans to construct 5 lakh houses.
- Rs.200 crore allocated under PM-JANMAN to uplift Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs).
- Budget announced a new scheme Antyodaya Gruha Yojana with an outlay of Rs 7550cr
- This scheme will provide concrete houses to the poorest families living below poverty line.
- For families left out of previous housing programmes owing to natural and manmade disasters, displacement caused by Government projects, house hold with disabled primary earner and those eligible under forests rights Act.
- 2,25,000 new concrete houses will be sanctioned in next 3 years under the scheme.
- Rs 2500cr for MGNREGS to provide livelihood security by guaranteeing at least 100 days of wage employment to rural households.
- To address distress migration from 30 affected blocks, additional 200 days of wage employment under MGNREGA is proposed.
- Enhanced MGNREGA wages to align with minimum wages in these blocks, providing an additional Rs.98 per day from the State's own resources.
- Rs 700c r allocated under this head.
- Rs.200 crore for Vana Surakha Samittee (VSS) for construction of non-residential buildings.
- Rs 160 cr for Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DU-GKY) that aims to enhance efficiency and employment opportunities for rural youth aged 18 to 35 by providing placement-linked skill training.
- Additional Rs.51 crore has been proposed under the scheme State Support to ORMAS to organize block-level rural exhibitions, establish small packaging and marketing units for rural products, and offer skill development training to rural beneficiaries to make them employable.
- Under Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (RGSA), Rs.162 crore, including Rs.60 crore for construction of GP buildings, has been proposed for 2025-26.
