Bharat Nirman is a time-bound business plan of Government of India in partnership with State Governments and Panchayat Raj Institutions for a period of four years covering 2005-09 for developing the infrastructure facilities of Rural India. The objectives of the plan are as follows:

• Every village to be provided electricity: remaining 1,25,000 villages to be covered by 2009 as well as connect 2.3 crore households
• Every habitation over 1000 population and above (500 in hilly and tribal areas) to be provided an all-weather road: remaining 66,802 habitations to be covered by 2009
• Every habitation to have a safe source of drinking water: 55,067 uncovered habitations to be covered by 2009. In addition all habitations which have slipped back from full coverage to partial coverage due to failure of source and habitations which have water quality problems to be addressed
• Every village to be connected by telephone: remaining 66,822 villages to be covered by November 2007
• 10 million hectares (100 lakh) of additional irrigation capacity to be created by 2009
• 60 lakh houses to be constructed for the rural poor by 2009

Bharat Nirman has made an impressive progress in the 2007-08. This ambitious programme is now over 1,000 days old. At the current pace, on each day of the year, 290 habitations are provided with drinking water and 17 habitations are connected through an all weather road. On each day of the year, 52 villages are provided with telephones and 42 villages are electrified. On each day of the year, 4,113 rural houses are completed. For Bharat Nirman, Rs. 31,280 crore have been provided [including the North Eastern Region (NER) component] as against Rs. 24,603 crore in 2007-08.

 For more information about the programme, we recommend to visit the following links:
http://bharatnirman.gov.in, http://nrega.nic.in/news/0128112007.pdf, http://www.rural.nic.in