Homestead and HousingFeb 2011

BHUBANESWAR

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About Rural Development Institute

• RDI, a not for profit organization, works to secure land rights to the poorest in sub-Saharan Africa, China and India

• Support and partner with national/state governments

• In Odisha, work with Government to ensure homestead land to all

• Convergence : Homestead +

• Scaling with Government programs like OTELP and TRIPTI (Proposed)

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Structure of Presentation

• Status and issues around homestead land allocation - Assessment (10) and pilot (3)

• Homestead and housing• Window through the IAY Land Purchase 2009• Working with the State (district wise) proposal

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Homestead allocation – Assessment and Pilot

• Assessment in 88 sample villages in 10 districts - pilot in 36 villages in 3 districts– People did not receive patta to current house

sites, unwilling to relocate, allotted house sites are not identified or demarcated

– About 40% of households do not have secured rights over homestead land (either not included in Vasundhara and not living on allotted land)

– Acute revenue staffs shortage - paucity of time to undertake fresh enumeration to assess the extent of homesteadlessness

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Homestead allocation – Assessment and Pilot

• Identify and build local capacities to support field level revenue officials to initiate fresh enumeration of homesteadless-ness

• A local capacity is a literate youth from the village/GP – willing to work for the community and carries its confidence

• Provides the much needed additional support to the Revenue Inspector to expedite allocation through developing a village inventory on homesteadless-ness

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Homestead allocation – Assessment and Pilot

• On an average in a village, about 20 % of all households are homesteadless and are eligible for allocation of homestead land

• In the pilot villages, CRPs are able to identify about 1270 homesteadless households

• Average cost per allocation about 150/INR - average time taken by CRP per allocation 2 days

• Leasable households are roughly 30%, rest being objectionable land requires varied degrees of revenue intervention

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Homestead development

• Homestead land allocation provides a window for supplementary food and income, nutritional security, boosts family and women’s status and improved standard of living

• Preferred size of homestead is 10 decimals

• Homestead serves as place for house, and for home garden

• Homestead garden is managed by family using low amounts of capital

• Convergence of existing program and interventions

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Vasundhara Benficiaries surveyed during 2009-2010

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100

150

200

250

300

350

400

Kalahandi

Kandhamal

Gajapati

Koraput

Sambalpur

Ganjam Pu

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Baleswar

Jagatsinghpur

Kendrapara

Vasundhara Beneficiary Regularised Alloted Covered under IAY

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IAY StatusVasundhara beneficiaries surveyed during 2009-2010

Name of Distric

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Vasundhara beneficiaries

Caste Patta titling

Covered under

IAY

Possession

SC ST

OBC / Other

Joint

Male only

Female only

Regularised

Allotted

Kalahandi 294 52 216 26 226 37 30 41 (14%) 5 289

Kondhmal 144 28 31 85 84 45 15 3 (2%) 0 144

Gajapati 219 0 218 1 54 160 4 38 (17%) 193 26

Koraput 103 38 64 1 42 47 11 29 (28%) 55 48

Sambalpur 223 0 221 2 220 3 0 33 (15%) 18 205

Ganjam 160 26 120 12 95 59 0 31 (27%) 1 111

Puri 60 49 0 11 0 58 2 4 (6%) 23 37

Baleswar 367 2 355 10 367 0 0 0 367

Jagatsinghpur 56 20 14 22 25 31 0 21 (37%) 9 48

Kendrapara 38 0 38 0 31 2 5 0 0 38

Total 1616 215 1277 171 1144 442 67 200 352 1313

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Indira Awas Yojana…issues needing attention

• Study in 10 districts on Vasundhara – 80% patta holders have not relocated to the plot as they haven’t seen the land

• When families didn’t have access to allotted land, they have constructed house on their existing plot that is mostly objectionale land

• Housing as an incentive/mechanism to reduce homesteadlessness – though families are ready to relocate but are without housing (IAY)

• Though homestead patta is a condition for getting IAY, there is no link between Vasundhara program and IAY

• Low coverage – about 12% (200 out of 1664)• Of the remaining, about 60% are BPL who could access IAY LP

2009• Mo Kudia numbers are very less needs additional budget

allocation to address the remianing

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IAY Land Purchase Scheme 2009DO.No.J-11060/12/2007-RH

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Scheme for Homestead Plots…homestead sites to all by 2012

• Unit Assistance per Beneficiary– Rs. 10,000 or actual, whichever is less– For purchase / acquisition of 100-250 sq. mt.– To be shared in ratio of 50:50 in the states / UTs– If amount falls short, balance amount to be

contributed by states• Incentivising states

– Additional funds under IAY to the extent of plots alloted by way of regularization / allotment of Govt. land / purchase / acquistion

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Scheme for Homestead Plots…homestead sites to all by 2012

• Eligibility of Beneficiaries– Should be a BPL household with neither land nor house-

site– Should belong to the permanent IAY waitlist

• Conditions for Purchase– In the first instance states to regularize presently occupied

site, if possible– Otherwise States to allot suitable Government Land– If the first two alternatives are not possible, then private

land to be purchased or acquired

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Incentive for Government of Odisha

• Govt. of Odisha need not allocate additional funds (50% state share) under land purchase component of the scheme as allocation of house-sites (under OGLS) and regularization (under OPLE) ongoing in the state

• State Government gets incentivised to the extent plots alloted by way of regularization / allotment of Govt. Land

• Govt can be incentivised for the 2.3 lakh regularisation/allocation that has been done under Vasundhara during 2006-09

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Proforma I• Following items included in Proforma- I :1. Name of District2. No. of BPL families as per Permanent IAY Waitlists who have

neither land nor housesite3. No. of BPL families whose occupied land, if any, can be

regularized or can be provided Govt. land for homestead site4. No. of BPL families for whom land is to be purchased or

acquired for allotment as homestead sites5. ime-line for providing homestead sites through regularization

or allotment of Govt. land or purchase/ acquisition of private land

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Proforma II• Following items included in Proforma- II :1. Name of District2. No. of Gram Panchayats where land is to be purchased/ acquired3. No. of households for whom private land is to be purchased /

acquired for allotment as homestead sites4. Total funds required for the purpose/acquisition5. Central share of funds required

• Certificates to be provided that :1. It is not possible to regularize occupied land & also there is no

suitable Govt. land for allotment as homestead sites in the Gram Panchayats where purchase/acquisition of land is proposed

2. The land to be purchased/acquired has been identified

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Proposal by Feb 2011• Proposal for inclusion of Vasundhara

beneficiaries[1] under Rural Housing Program to be submitted by Districts

• State Government to send proposal to MoRD– Proforma I– Proforma II

• [1] Homesteadless families were identified by the Revenue Departmnet and alloted house-sites on their existing plots or alloted suitable Government land

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Proposal…RDI’s role• Facilitate State Government in devising guidelines for

the program and working out the proposal• Details available for 1664 families of 10 districts

– 200 covered in IAY (approx. 12%)– 352 regularised on current house-sites– 1313 alloted house-sites in Government land– Considering 60 – 70 % of the identified families to be BPL

households – 998 to 1024 could be alloted IAY under incentiviation scheme and rest 466 - 439 could be covered under Mo Kudia (State)

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Thanks for your attention