Sansad Aadarsh Gram Yojana

- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a new initiative under which each MP would develop a model village in his area.
- Prime Minister Modi had announced to launch this scheme in his Independence Day speech on August 15 from the Red Fort in New Delhi.
- The 'Sansad Aadarsh Gram Yojana' will be launched on the Oct. 11 birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Narayan.
- While announcing the scheme Prime Minister extended the view that nation can be built and strengthened only if we start from the villages.
- He added that each MP should select a village in his constituency and convert it into a 'model village' by 2016.
- Moreover, they can then convert two more villages into model villages before the next Lok Sabha poll (in 2019).
- He also advised that MPs with urban constituencies, Rajya Sabha MPs and state legislators should also chose one village each.
- The 11th of October is Jayaprakash Narayan's birth anniversary. On that day, the government has decided to share the blueprint with MPs and the states.