DMFs become a project machine…..

PMKKKY (Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana) is a guideline for framing rules by States for the District Mineral Foundation proposed under the amended MMDR 2015 Act. The guidelines categorize two major heads for expenditure viz. high priority areas and other priority areas thereby also emphasizing the utilization of funds collected under respective DMFs. The following table will provide state-wise categorisation of sectors and amounts allocated for each sector. One would find that rather than directly benefiting the ‘mining affected communities’ the government is building projects from these funds for providing basic essential services as if communities are burdened in the absence of such a fund. 

Data as on March 2019

SNo	Name of Projects		Odisha			Chhattisgarh			Madhya Pradesh
		No of Projects	Allocated   (INR in cr)	Spent (INR in cr)	No of Projects	Allocated (INR in cr)	Spent (INR in cr)	No of Projects	Allocated (INR in lakh)	Disbursed(INR in lakh)
1	Drinking Water Supply	3061	1531.55	252.48	2639	312.65	0	467	5903.56	2589.56
2	Environment Preservation and Pollution Control	30	95.48	12.4	647	201.44		78	2726.66	1131.17
3	Health Care	133	652.58	184.11	1459	286.85		186	6952.57	29836.24
4	Education	390	529.61	120.14	7344	965.89		670	9889.41	6475.65
5	Women and Children Welfare	59	107.29	16.23	2927	110.54		117	419.76	30.22
6	Irrigation	285	669.4	64.02	918	163.83		38	605.29	188.23
7	Power	NIL	–	–	NIL	–	–	NIL	–	–
8	Physical Infrastructure	373	1961.85	189.78	6845	1286.84		1079	28647.16	13365.23
9	Skill Development	7	80.08	15.29	475*	83.1		995	2190.11	396.77
10	Public Facilities	NIL	–	–	NIL	–	–	NIL	–	–
11	Energy	50	76.63	40.48	1512	182.29	–	NIL	–	–
12	Sanitation	14	27.06	1.99	1226	89.66		164	999.68	412.38
13	Sports	NIL	–	–	NIL	–	–	NIL	–	–
14	Housing	5	5.41	0.66	NIL	–	–	NIL	–	–
15	Welfare of Aged and Disabled People	NIL	–	–	91	18.71		12	627.28	492.32
16	Watershed Development	NIL	–	–	1079*	121.74		15**	3216.78	1632.7
17	Agriculture & Allied Activities	NIL	–	–	2599	228.61		NIL	–	–
18	Infrastructure	NIL	–	–	14	2.44		NIL	–	–
19	Human Resources	NIL	–	–	9	5.06		NIL	–	–
20	Government schemes/Programmes	NIL	–	–	4	0.58		NIL	–	–
21	Training & Capacity Building	NIL	–	–	90	6.32		NIL	–	–
22	Administrative or Establishments & etc	NIL	–	–	15	0.42		NIL	–	–
23	Other Social Development Activities		46.9	38.93	NIL	–	–	NIL	–	–
24	Afforestation		21.59	12.56	NIL	–	–	NIL	–	–
25	Road Connectivity		9.29	2.97	NIL	–			–	–
26	Livelihood Programmes		623.48	59	NIL	–			–	–
	TOTAL	4407	6438.2	1011.04	29893	4076.97	–	3821	62178.26	56550.45