Lok Sabha Question No. 549 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-03
Subject: Funds under various Schemes in NE States
Ministry: DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH EASTERN REGION
Asked by: Ms. Praniti Sushilkumar Shinde

## Government of India

## Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 549

To be answered on Wednesday, December 3, 2025/Agrahayana 12, 1947 (Saka)

## QUESTION Funds under various Schemes in NE States

## 549.  Ms. Praniti Sushilkumar Shinde:

Will  the  Minister  of  DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH EASTERN REGION be pleased to state:

- (a)        the  details  of  total  funds  allocated,  released  and  utilized  under  various schemes of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) and the North Eastern Council (NEC) during the last five years, State-wise;
- (b)   whether there has been any underutilization of funds or lapses in expenditure in any of the North Eastern (NE) States;
- (c)    if so, the details thereof along with the reasons identified by the Government;
- (d)      whether  the  Government  has  undertaken  any  measures  to  strengthen financial management and monitoring mechanism for project implementation and if so, the details thereof; and
- (e)   the details of reforms introduced by the Government to improve fund disbursal efficiency and outcome-based monitoring of projects in the said region?

## ANSWER

## The Minister of State for the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region [Dr. Sukanta Majumdar]

- (a),  (b)  &  (c)  As  per  the  Revised  Estimates  budget  figures,  a  total  of  Rs. 15905.86 crore has been allocated for North Eastern States over last 5 years by the Ministry of DoNER under the following schemes:
- (i)  Prime Minister's Development Initiative for North East Region (PM-DevINE)
- (ii) Schemes of North Eastern Council (SoNEC)
- (iii) North East Special Infrastructure Development Scheme (Other than Roads Infrastructure)
- (iv) North East Special Infrastructure Development Scheme (Roads)
- (v) Special Development Packages (SDP)
- (vi) North East Entrepreneurs Development Scheme (NEEDS)

The  State  wise  funds  released  by  the  Ministry  of  DoNER  under  the  said schemes during last five years (FY 2020-21 to FY 2024-25) are given in the table below:

| S.N.   | Name of the State   |   Funds released during last 5 years (Rs. crore) |
|--------|---------------------|--------------------------------------------------|
| 1      | Arunachal Pradesh   |                                          1203    |
| 2      | Assam               |                                          2306.34 |
| 3      | Manipur             |                                           717.62 |
| 4      | Meghalaya           |                                          1231.93 |
| 5      | Mizoram             |                                           809.49 |
| 6      | Nagaland            |                                          1137.34 |
| 7      | Sikkim              |                                           763.93 |
| 8      | Tripura             |                                           702.9  |
| 9      | Central Agency      |                                           996.22 |
|        | Total               |                                          9868.77 |

Despite several challenges, the utilization of funds by the States under these schemes has been 62%.

The fund release proposals are processed after uploading of demand letter on Poorvottar Vikas Setu (PVS) portal by the State Government along with all necessary supporting documents.

Release of funds to the State Govt. depends upon the demand from the States, financial and physical progress of implementation by the States as well as utilization of  funds  already  released  to  them.  Also,  short  working  seasons,  land  availability, challenging  terrains,  supply  bottlenecks  of  construction  materials  are  some  of  the causes for slow pace of utilization of funds in the North-East States.

- (d)    To strengthen the financial management, PVS Setu portal has been developed which  has  a  demand  request  module  that  has  a  provision  for  submitting  demand requests for release of funds for ongoing projects along with provision for uploading

the  Utilization  Certificates  and  Completion  Certificates  by  the  State  Govt/Central agencies. To strengthen monitoring of ongoing projects, mechanism of Project Quality Monitors/Third Party Technical Inspection has been introduced. Ministry also placed a  Field  Level  Technical  Support  Unit  (FTSU)  in  each  State  through  North  East Development  Finance  Institution.  FTSUs  are  regularly  interacting  with  project Implementing Agencies (IA), maintaining and updating database of these projects, regularly submitting progress reports and providing feedback to MDoNER highlighting any bottleneck, etc. FTSUs also carry out field inspections and meet the officials of State  Planning  Departments  regularly  to  update  the  information  about  ongoing projects.  Latest  photographs  of  ongoing  projects  are  uploaded  on  the  Project Management System - Gatishakti portal of MDoNER by the FTSUs during the site inspections through the mobile application.

(e)            To  improve  fund  disbursal  efficiency,  and  to  a  strike  a  balance  between expeditious expenditure and proper monitoring, the releases of the projects sanctioned under various Schemes of the Ministry are now made in four equal installments of 25% each. An outcome - based monitoring of projects under various schemes of MDoNER is covered under Output-Outcome Monitoring framework (OOMF) of NITI Aayog and reports are submitted regularly to NITI Aayog.

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