Lok Sabha Question No. 1144 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-12-21
Subject: Performance Grants to Panchayats
Ministry: PANCHAYATI RAJ
Asked by: RANGASWAMY DHRUVANARAYANA, SUMEDHANAND SARASWATI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1144 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.12.2017

## Performance Grants to Panchayats

## 1144. SHRI R. DHRUVA NARAYANA: SHRI SUMEDHANAND SARSWATI:

Will the Minister of PANCHAYATI RAJ be pleased to state:

(a)  whether the Government had started a scheme to provide Performance Grants to Gram Panchayats through State Governments;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c)  whether  any  proposal/proposals  have  been  cleared  by  Government  during  the  last  18 months in this regard;

(d) if so, the details thereof along with the amount sanctioned therefor, State/UT wise; and

(e) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

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

(a)  &  (b)    Rs.  200292.20  crore  has  been  allocated  under  Fourteenth  Finance  Commission (FFC) award for the period 2015-20 for  Gram Panchayats (GPs) constituted under Part IX of the Constitution in 26 States. 10% of the grant has been earmarked as Performance Grants from Financial Year (FY) 2016-17.  The Performance Grant for 2016-17 was provided on the basis of compliance of the two mandatory conditions viz. submission of audited accounts and increase  in  Own  Source  of  Revenue  (OSR).  For    FY  2017-18  to  2019-20,  the  scheme  for distribution  of  Performance  Grants  to  the  GPs  has  been  formulated  with  four  mandatory conditions viz. Submission of  Audited Accounts,  Increase in Own Source Revenue (OSR), Completion  of  Gram  Panchayat  Development  Plan  (GPDP)  and  Uploading  of  Sector-wise expenditure data in the FFC Dashboard. The new scheme also includes the status of Open Defecation  Free  (ODF)  and  Child  Immunization  as  two    criteria  in  addition  to  OSR  with different weightage for determining disbursal of the performance grant.

(c) & (d) Yes. Performance Grant released to the States in 2016-17 is given in Annexure.

(e)   Does not arise, in view of the above.

(Annexure  referred  to  in  reply  to  part  (d)  of  the  Lok  Sabha  Unstarred  Question No.1144 to be answered on 21.12.2017)

Statement indicating State-wise details of release of Performance Grants for the last 18 months.

(Rs. In crore)

| Sl. No.   | State             |   Release |
|-----------|-------------------|-----------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    |    168.62 |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh |     16.08 |
| 3         | Assam             |    106.22 |
| 4         | Bihar             |      0    |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh      |    102.84 |
| 6         | Goa               |      2.62 |
| 7         | Gujarat           |    169.32 |
| 8         | Haryana           |     76.15 |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh  |     35.49 |
| 10        | Jammu &Kashmir    |     66.79 |
| 11        | Jharkhand         |    118.57 |
| 12        | Karnataka         |    179.46 |
| 13        | Kerala            |     78.78 |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh    |    265.84 |
| 15        | Maharashtra       |    294.84 |
| 16        | Manipur           |      4.04 |
| 17        | Odisha            |    173.55 |
| 18        | Punjab            |     80.23 |
| 19        | Rajasthan         |    267.35 |
| 20        | Sikkim            |      2.91 |
| 21        | Tamil Nadu        |    172.12 |
| 22        | Telangana         |    105.41 |
| 23        | Tripura           |      6.58 |
| 24        | Uttar Pradesh     |    699.75 |
| 25        | Uttarakhand       |     36.92 |
| 26        | W. Bengal         |    268.97 |
| Total     |                   |   3499.45 |

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