Lok Sabha Question No. 1048 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-02-08
Subject: Assessment of Gram Panchayats
Ministry: PANCHAYATI RAJ
Asked by: PRALHAD VENKATESH JOSHI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1048 TO BE ANSWERED ON 08/02/2018

## Assessment of Gram Panchayats

## 1048. SHRI PRALHAD JOSHI:

Will the Minister of PANCHAYATI RAJ be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Ministry has decided to introduce mark sheets based assessment system for Gram Panchayats to assess their performance;
- (b) if so, the parameters on the basis of which gram panchayats are likely to be assessed; and
- (c) the  steps  proposed  to  be  taken  on  the  underperforming  gram  panchayats  under  this assessment system?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ (SHRI PARSHOTTAM RUPALA)

(a) to (c)  Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) has formulated the scheme for disbursal of Performance Grants (PG) under the Fourteenth Finance Commission (FFC) award for the  period  2017-18  to  2019-20.  The  scheme  has  four  mandatory  criteria,  namely, submission of audited accounts, increase in Own Source Revenue (OSR), preparation of Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP) and display of sector-wise expenditure in FFC Dashboard of the Ministry. The evaluation criterion also contains factors on Open Defecation Free (ODF) Status and Immunisation Status. The copy of the PG Scheme is enclosed at Annexure .

The  performance grants will be released to the Gram Panchayats (GP) based on the  overall  score  obtained  by  them  as  per  the  scheme.  Those  Gram  Panchayats  which perform better by obtaining score of 50 or more would get additional amount from the undistributed amount to further incentivize them. GPs not fulfilling mandatory conditions,  will  not  get  performance  grants.  GPs  fulfilling  mandatory  conditions  and getting score 49 or less than 49 will get 50% of performance grants.

Further, MoPR invites online nominations every year from interested GPs of all States/UTs of the country for Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar and  Nanaji  Deshmukh  Rashtriya  Gaurav  Gram  Sabha  Puraskar.  A  set  of criteria, indicators, questionnaire and marking scheme to be adopted by the States/UTs for  assessing  the  GPs  have  been  developed  by  MoPR  in  consultation  with  State/UTs. The GPs are selected for awards by MoPR on the basis of recommendations received from respective States/UTs.

## Annexure referred to part (a) to (c) of the reply of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1048 to be replied on 08/02/2018

## Evaluation  criteria  for  disbursal  of  FFC  Performance  Grant  (PG)  to  Gram Panchayats (GPs) for 2017-18 to 2019-20

1. All  the  GPs  have  to  mandatorily  fulfil  the  following  conditions  to  be  eligible  for consideration of allocation of share of Performance Grant-
2. The evaluation of those GPs who have satisfied all the above four criteria will be carried out as per the scoring system given below:

| Sl. No.   | Mandatory Criteria                                                                                                                                              | Weightage   |
|-----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|
| i         | Submission of Audited Accounts that relate to year not earlier than 2 years preceding the year in which the Gram Panchayat seeks to claim the performance grant | Mandatory   |
| ii        | Show increase in Own Source Revenues (OSR) over the preceding year as reflected in the audited accounts.                                                        | Mandatory   |
| iii       | Completion of Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP) of year of PG disbursal and upload on PlanPlus portal                                                      | Mandatory   |
| iv        | Display of sector wise FFC Expenditure in Dashboard/ website URL of MoPR of previous year to PG claim                                                           | Mandatory   |

| Sl. No.   | Criteria (Year to be taken as Financial Year)                                                                                   | Weightage   |
|-----------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|
| I         | Increase in OSR quantum                                                                                                         | Score       |
|           | >0 upto 10%                                                                                                                     | 05          |
|           | >10 upto 25%                                                                                                                    | 10          |
|           | >25 upto 50%                                                                                                                    | 15          |
|           | >50%                                                                                                                            | 20          |
| ii        | %of OSR quantum generated w.r.t. FFC Basic Grant amount of previous financial year to the PG claim year as per audited accounts | Score       |
|           | >0 upto 10%                                                                                                                     | 15          |
|           | >10 upto 20%                                                                                                                    | 20          |
|           | >20 upto 30%                                                                                                                    | 30          |
|           | >30%                                                                                                                            | 40          |
| iii       | Open Defecation Free (ODF) status of GP in the                                                                                  |             |

|    | previous financial year to PG claim year*                                                                    |     |
|----|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----|
|    | Yes                                                                                                          | 30  |
|    | No                                                                                                           | 0   |
| iv | Immunization in GP in the previous financial year to PG claim year Full immunization (0-2 year age children) |     |
|    | Yes                                                                                                          | 10  |
|    | No                                                                                                           | 0   |
| v  | Total Max Score (i+ii+iii+iv) above                                                                          | 100 |

## 3. Distribution of Performance Grants to GPs-

PG distribution to GPs based on their score shall be made as per details given in the following table:

| Score        | Eligible Quantum of PG   |
|--------------|--------------------------|
| upto 49      | 50 %of Allocation        |
| 50 upto 60   | 70 %of Allocation        |
| 61 upto 70   | 80 %of Allocation        |
| 71 and above | 100% of Allocation       |

4. Any undistributed amount, after the above allocations as per para-3 including those of ineligible GPs, will be redistributed only amongst GPs scoring 50 or above proportionately on the basis of weighted average of the score obtained by the GP with respect to the overall weightage.