Support to State Extension Programme for Extension Reforms

Support to State Extension Programme for Extension Reforms, a Centrally Sponsored Scheme is currently being implemented in 604 districts of 28 States and 3 UTs of the country.

The States have been following the policy directives to involve NGOs in varying extents and in different modes.

In order to ensure promotion of multi-agency extension strategies, and to implement activities in Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) mode, the scheme provides for utilizing at least 10% of scheme allocation on recurring activities at the District level through non-governmental sector such as, NGOs, FOs, PRIs, Cooperatives, para- extension workers, agri-preneurs, input suppliers, corporate sector etc. Moreover, Non-Governmental implementing agencies are eligible for service charge upto a maximum of 10% of cost of extension activities (without staff cost) implemented through them.

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