Lok Sabha Question No. 1603 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-02
Subject: Allocation of Funds to Panchayats
Ministry: PANCHAYATI RAJ
Asked by: Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1603 ANSWERED ON 02.07.2019

## ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TO PANCHAYATS

1603. SHRI RAM MOHANNAIDU KINJARAPU:

Will the Minister of PANCHAYATI RAJ be pleased to state:

- (a) the manner and basis of allocation of funds to Gram Panchayats by the Government;
- (b) the details of the mechanism being followed in this regard; and
- (c) the reasons in case no such mechanism is available with the Ministry?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF PANCHAYATI RAJ (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

(a) to (c)   Under Fourteenth Finance Commission (FFC) award for the period 2015-20, grants to the tune of Rs. 2,00,292.20 crore for the period from 2015 to 2020 have been allocated to Gram Panchayats constituted under Part IX of the Constitution, amounting to an assistance of Rs. 488 per capita per annum at an aggregate level for 26 States. The grants are distributed among the States  using  the  criteria  of  population  and  area  in  the  weightage  of  90:10  respectively.  States further distribute the grants amongst Gram Panchayats on the basis of formula prescribed by the State Finance Commission (SFC) or in its absence using the FFC formula of 90 per cent weight for population and 10 per cent weight for area. Details of grants allocated to 26 States is given at Annexure.

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Annexure referred to in reply to parts (a) to (c) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.1603 answer on 02.07.2019

## Allocation of Fourteenth Finance Commission grants to the States for Gram Panchayats

(Rs in crore)

| Sl. No.   | State/Year        |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |   2017-18 |   2018-19 |   2019-20 |
|-----------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    |    934.34 |   1463.45 |   1686.85 |   1947.32 |   2622.13 |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh |     88.52 |    138.66 |    159.82 |    184.49 |    248.44 |
| 3         | Assam             |    584.8  |    915.98 |   1055.8  |   1218.82 |   1641.19 |
| 4         | Bihar             |   2269.18 |   3554.23 |   4096.8  |   4729.38 |   6368.25 |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh      |    566.18 |    886.82 |   1022.18 |   1180.02 |   1588.94 |
| 6         | Goa               |     14.44 |     22.62 |     26.07 |     30.1  |     40.53 |
| 7         | Gujarat           |    932.25 |   1460.18 |   1683.08 |   1942.96 |   2616.26 |
| 8         | Haryana           |    419.28 |    656.72 |    756.98 |    873.86 |   1176.68 |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh  |    195.39 |    306.05 |    352.76 |    407.24 |    548.36 |
| 10        | Jammu &Kashmir    |    373.96 |    585.73 |    675.15 |    779.4  |   1049.49 |
| 11        | Jharkhand         |    652.83 |   1022.53 |   1178.63 |   1360.62 |   1832.12 |
| 12        | Karnataka         |   1002.85 |   1570.77 |   1810.55 |   2090.1  |   2814.39 |
| 13        | Kerala            |    433.76 |    679.4  |    783.12 |    904.03 |   1217.3  |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh    |   1463.61 |   2292.46 |   2642.4  |   3050.41 |   4107.48 |
| 15        | Maharashtra       |   1623.32 |   2542.61 |   2930.76 |   3383.28 |   4555.7  |
| 16        | Manipur           |     22.25 |     34.84 |     40.16 |     46.36 |     62.43 |
| 17        | Odisha            |    955.52 |   1496.64 |   1725.11 |   1991.48 |   2681.59 |
| 18        | Punjab            |    441.7  |    691.84 |    797.45 |    920.58 |   1239.58 |
| 19        | Rajasthan         |   1471.95 |   2305.52 |   2657.47 |   3067.8  |   4130.9  |
| 20        | Sikkim            |     16.03 |     25.11 |     28.95 |     33.41 |     44.99 |
| 21        | Tamil Nadu        |    947.65 |   1484.31 |   1710.9  |   1975.07 |   2659.5  |
| 22        | Telangana         |    580.34 |    908.99 |   1047.75 |   1209.53 |   1628.68 |
| 23        | Tripura           |     36.24 |     56.76 |     65.43 |     75.53 |    101.71 |
| 24        | Uttar Pradesh     |   3862.6  |   6050.02 |   6973.57 |   8050.34 |  10840    |
| 25        | Uttarakhand       |    203.26 |    318.37 |    366.97 |    423.64 |    570.44 |
| 26        | West Bengal       |   1532.21 |   2399.91 |   2766.26 |   3193.39 |   4300.01 |
|           | Total             |  21624.5  |  33870.5  |  39041    |  45069.2  |  60687.1  |