Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY)

It was launched in 2010 on pilot basis for the integrated development of 1000 villages each with more than 50% Scheduled Castes (SCs). In 2014-15 it was extended to other 1500 villages across 11 states. The government aims to cover more than 26000 villages by 2024-25.

• To become ‘Adarsh Grams’, these villages must fill in the gaps in critical socio-economic ‘Monitorable Indicators’ as part of various sectors/domains. These domains include water and sanitation, education, health and nutrition, agricultural best practices etc. amongst others.
• Schemes like this face challenges at the ground level like social and traditional dogmas, bringing attitudinal change for integration, ....