Lok Sabha Question No. 1983 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-01
Subject: Making Panchayats Hi-tech
Ministry: PANCHAYATI RAJ
Asked by: Subhash Chandra Baheria

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1983 ANSWERED ON 01.08.2023

## MAKING PANCHAYATS HI-TECH

## 1983 SHRI SUBHASH CHANDRA BAHERIA:

Will the Minister of PANCHAYATI RAJ be pleased to State:

- (a) whether the Government has any scheme to make Panchayats hi-tech by adding new hi-tech facilities and single window solution oriented in the State of Rajasthan;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and the number of Gram Panchayats in Rajasthan where new buildings were constructed during the last nine years; and
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  any  programme  to  attach  education  institutes  with Panchayati Raj Institutions to aware students about its functioning?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR PANCHAYATI RAJ

## (SHRI KAPIL MORESHWAR PATIL)

(a) Under  Digital  India  Programme,  Ministry  of  Panchayati  Raj  is  implementing  ePanchayat  Mission  Mode  Project  (MMP),  in  all  the  States/  UTs  of  the  country  including Rajasthan.  The  aim  is  to  revamp  the  functioning  of  Panchayats  and  to  make  them  more transparent,  accountable  and  effective.  Ministry  has  launched  eGramSwaraj,  an  accounting application to simplify Panchayat work like planning, accounting and budgeting. Ministry has also integrated eGramSwaraj with Public Financial Management System (PFMS) for Gram Panchayats (GPs) to make real time payments to vendors/service providers. The progress made under eGramSwaraj in the States of Rajasthanfor the year 2023-24 is given at Annexure .

Further, for attaining the vision of Digital India, BharatNet  project is being implemented by Department of Telecommunications in a phased manner to create network to connect all the Gram Panchayats by broadband in the country.

(b) Panchayat being a State subject, providing infrastructural facilities to GPs is primarily the responsibility of States. However, the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of revamped Rashtriya Gram  Swaraj  Abhiyan  (RGSA)  supplements  the  efforts  of  States,  on  a  limited  scale,  by providing financial support for certain infrastructural facilities for GPs such as Gram Panchayat Bhawans, computers and peripheralsas proposed by States/UTs in their Annual Action Plan and  approved  by  Central  Empowered  Committee  of  RGSA.  Under  RGSA  since  its inception372 Gram Panchayat Bhawans have been approved in Rajasthan.

(c) No Sir.

Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1983 answered on 01.08.2023 regarding 'Making Panchayats Hi-Tech'.

## Adoption of eGramSwaraj at Panchayat level during FY 2023-24 in Rajasthan

| Total Number of Zila Panchayats &Equivalent      |    33 |
|--------------------------------------------------|-------|
| Plans Uploaded                                   |     9 |
| Zilla Panchayat onboard (eGS - PFMS)             |    33 |
| Zilla Panchayats &Equivalent with Online Payment |    31 |
| Total Number of Block Panchayats &Equivalent     |   352 |
| Plans Uploaded                                   |   263 |
| Block Panchayat onboard (eGS - PFMS)             |   352 |
| Block Panchayats &Equivalent with Online Payment |   310 |
| Total Number of Gram Panchayats &Equivalent      | 11342 |
| Plans Uploaded                                   | 11246 |
| Gram Panchayat onboard (eGS - PFMS)              | 11315 |
| Gram Panchayats &Equivalent with Online Payment  |  7694 |