Under the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY), what are Members of Parliament expected to do in the village they select?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Facilitate a village development plan and help build health, nutrition and education facilities
Under SAGY, the MP facilitates a village development plan, motivates villagers and helps build facilities in health, nutrition and education.
Option (1) Develop their own home village as a model village — Incorrect. The village must not be the MP’s own or the spouse’s village.
Option (2) Run a regulated market yard for the farmers of the village — Incorrect. Regulated market yards are part of agricultural marketing, not SAGY.
Option (3) Facilitate a village development plan and help build health, nutrition and education facilities — Correct. This is the MP’s role.
Option (4) Open a Jan-Dhan bank account for every adult of the village — Incorrect. Jan-Dhan is a separate banking scheme.
NCERT (2026-27): “Box 5.3: Adoption of Village by Parliamentarians In October, 2014, The Government of India introduced a new scheme called Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY). Under this scheme, Members of India’s Parliament need to identify and develop one village from their constituencies. To begin with, MPs can develop one village as a model village by 2016, and two more by 2019, covering over 2,500 villages in India. According to the scheme, the village can have a population of 3,000-5,000 in the plains and 1,000-3,000 in the hills and should not be MPs’ own or their spouse’s village. MPs are expected to facilitate a village development plan, motivate villagers to take up activities and built infrastructure in the areas of health, nutrition and education. …” |