Guarantees 100 days of wage employment per year to rural households. Sagar Block has ~42,000 active job card holders. Focused on embankment repair, canal digging & eco-restoration.

Provides pucca house construction assistance to BPL households. ₹1.20 lakh per unit (plain). Flood-resistant construction norms mandatory in Sagar due to tidal zone status.

Universal financial inclusion — zero-balance bank accounts with RuPay debit card, ₹2L accident insurance & ₹30K life cover. Critical for DBT of MGNREGS & other scheme wages in Sagar.

Irrigation scheme covering micro-irrigation, watershed development & water-use efficiency. Addresses severe freshwater scarcity in Sagar Island — saline intrusion management component included.

Free LPG connections to BPL women to replace biomass cooking. High relevance in Sagar where mangrove wood burning depletes forest cover. Over 18,000 connections issued in the block.

₹5 lakh annual health cover per family for secondary & tertiary hospitalisation. Island communities gain access to empanelled hospitals on mainland via ferry. High uptake for cyclone injury & waterborne disease.

₹6,000/year income support in three instalments to landholding farmers via DBT. 14,500 registered farmers in Sagar Block. Land fragmentation and share-croppers remain partially excluded.

Crop insurance against natural calamities, pests & diseases. Critical in Sagar — cyclones Amphan, Yaas, Dana caused severe crop loss. SAT-based remote sensing assessments now used for damage claims.

Low-premium accident & life insurance schemes. ₹20L accidental cover @ ₹20/yr (PMSBY) + ₹2L life cover @ ₹436/yr (PMJJBY). Widely enrolled among fishermen and agricultural labourers.

ODF+ & ODF++ village status maintenance, solid/liquid waste management & grey-water treatment. Tidal flooding complicates septic infrastructure — floating latrine solutions piloted in Sagar 2023.

Functional household tap connection (FHTC) to every rural household by 2024. Critical challenge in Sagar: saline groundwater requires RO treatment plants. 14 Jal Jeevan works underway in island.

₹20,050 Cr fisheries development scheme. Sagar fishermen benefit through boat engines, safety kits, fish landing centres & aquaculture ponds. 3,200 fishermen registered under PMMSY in Sagar Block.

Monthly income support: ₹3,000 for women. Implemented through DBT. Immensely popular in Sagar where male outmigration is high & women are primary earners.

₹10,000/year income support to farmers (min. 1 acre) + ₹2L life insurance on crop season death. Complementary to PM-KISAN. 9,800 farmers in Sagar enrolled. Share-croppers included under Barga records.

WB State + Centre co-funded exclusive development authority for Sundarbans. Covers embankment repair, solar electrification, ferry ghats, school buildings & eco-livelihood. ₹320 Cr for FY 2024–25.

Piped water supply & sewerage in semi-urban areas. Sagar Nagar Panchayat benefits under AMRUT 2.0. 4 water treatment plants and 12 km of distribution network planned for Sagar town area.

Jointly funded (Centre 60%, State 40%) primary health strengthening. Sagar Block has 2 PHCs, 12 Sub-centres & 1 Rural Hospital upgraded under NHM. ASHA workers cover all 144 villages with maternal & child health.

Anganwadi-based nutrition, pre-school education & immunisation. 218 Anganwadi centres in Sagar Block under ICDS. POSHAN tracker used for real-time malnutrition monitoring. SAM children referred to NRC at Kakdwip.

Post-cyclone relief, rehabilitation & reconstruction. Sagar was heavily impacted by Cyclones Amphan (2020), Yaas (2021) & Dana (2024). ₹42 Cr NDRF & ₹18 Cr SDRF disbursed for Sagar post-Amphan alone. Embankment breach compensation ongoing.