Lok Sabha Question No. 4748 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-24
Subject: Reviewing Centrally Sponsored Schemes
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: Ajay Nishad

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No.4748 TO BE ANSWERED ON 24.03.2021

## REVIEWING CENTRALLY SPONSORED SCHEMES

## †4748. SHRI AJAY NISHAD:

Will the Minister of PLANNING be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has reviewed the Centrally Sponsored Schemes implemented by the States to evaluate the achievements vis-a-vis targets periodically;
- (b) if so, the details and the outcome thereof, schemes, year and State-wise;
- (c) whether  there  is  any  provision  of  penalties  for  non-performing  States  under  the various schemes and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) the details of the improvements/corrective steps proposed to be taken along with the time by which these improvements/steps are likely to be taken; and
- (e) the manner in which the Government proposes to ensure that benefits under various schemes reach the targeted population in non-performing States?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS & PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

## (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

- (a) & (b) The Ministries/Departments of the Government of India conduct evaluation of the  Centrally  Sponsored  Schemes  (CSS)  being  implemented  by  them.    The  NITI Aayog  also  conducts  concurrent  evaluation  of  the  selected  programmes/schemes. Besides  this,  in  States,  the  State  evaluation  offices  conduct  evaluations  of  their prominent schemes/programmes. For the continuation of Central Sector (CS)/Centrally  Sponsored  Schemes  (CSS)  in  15 th Finance  Commission  Cycle,  the Department  of  Expenditure  in  March  2019  entrusted  Development  Monitoring  & Evaluation  Office  (DMEO),  NITI  Aayog  to  undertake  evaluation  of  28  Umbrella Centrally Sponsored Schemes comprising around 125 CSS.

These  schemes  have  been  evaluated  under  10  Evaluation  Packages  and finalized  evaluation  reports  have  been  shared  with  the  concerned  stakeholders.  The details  of  CSS  programmes  evaluated  by  Development  Monitoring  &  Evaluation Office (DMEO), NITI Aayog through the 10 packages are enclosed as Annexure-A.

- (c) The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance allocates  funds every  year, to Ministries/Departments. The respective Ministry/Department facilitates the implementation  of  schemes,  releases  the  funds  to  the  States/implementing  agency, time to time and are expected to monitor that the funds are utilized in efficient and effective way. Further, continuation of schemes from one Finance Commission cycle to another entails a third party impact evaluation.
- (d) &  (e)  While  the  programme  implementing  Ministries/Departments  are  primarily responsible  to  monitor  the  implementation  of  their  programmes  and  for  taking corrective steps to ensure that the programme benefits reach the targeted population, the NITI Aayog helps them in the following ways:
-  By  bringing  findings  of  the  evaluation  studies  to  the  knowledge  of  the programme implementing Ministries/Departments for taking corrective measures;
-  NITI Aayog facilitates monitoring of the progress in the implementation of programmes/schemes through Output-Outcome Management framework (OOMF) for CS/CSS Schemes of the Government of India. NITI Aayog has also developed a dashboard for this purpose which is accessed online by the Departments/Ministries for updating the progress of their progammes.

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## Annexure - A

## Details of 10 CSS packages evaluated by DMEO, NITI Aayog (2019-21)

|   Sl. No | Studies byDMEO                                       | F.Y.    | Ministries                                           |
|----------|------------------------------------------------------|---------|------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Package 1 - Agriculture, Animal Husbandry &Fisheries | 2020-21 | Agriculture                                          |
|        2 | Package 2 - Women &Child Development                 | 2020-21 | WCD                                                  |
|        3 | Package 3 - Human Resource Development               | 2020-21 | HRD/Education                                        |
|        4 | Package 4 - Urban Transformation                     | 2020-21 | Housing &Urban Development                           |
|        5 | Package 5 - Rural Development                        | 2020-21 | Rural Development                                    |
|        6 | Package 6 - Drinking Water &Sanitation               | 2020-21 | Drinking Water &Sanitation                           |
|        7 | Package 7 - Health                                   | 2020-21 | Health &Family Welfare                               |
|        8 | Package 8 - Jobs &Skills                             | 2020-21 | Skill Development                                    |
|        9 | Package 9 - Water Resources, Environment &Forest     | 2020-21 | Water Resources, Environment &Forest &Climate Change |
|       10 | Package 10- Social Inclusion                         | 2020-21 | Social Justice &Empowerment                          |