Itanagar, Oct 1 : Union Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar has urged the Arunachal Pradesh Government to prepare Utilisation Certificates (UCs) to enable the Centre to release more funds at regular intervals.
During his meeting with Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu on Sunday before leaving for Delhi, Mr Aiyar also asked the State Government to expedite the process of devolution of financial power with functionaries to pave way for effective functioning of the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI) in the State, official sources said here today.
Besides advising for constituting a state task force committee for power devolution to the PRIs and work on activity mapping, the Union Minister emphasised for sensitisation training programme for PR leaders.
“We should ensure that there is no misuse of funds because of lack of experience by the Panchayat leaders who need training,” he reasoned and advised the chief secretary to immediately convene a meeting of all Deputy Commissioners and Block Development Officers to discuss conducting massive awareness training programmes for the PRIs in their concerned districts. He also assured to depute technical consultants from the Centre for imparting training to PRIs.
One of the issues of concern for Arunachal Pradesh is asset maintenance, the minister pointed out and suggested that the state government should find out ways and means to generate non-plan revenues. He was also of the view that the non-plan revenue may be distributed into three equal shares to the State, the concerned department and the PRI.
While Rs 50 crore was sanctioned under the 12th Finance Commission whose first instalment of Rs 6.8 crore had been released, seven more instalments were in the waiting, which would lapse by March 31, he informed. “You need to expedite the expenditure and submit the UCs at the earliest,” he said. Aiyar urged the state government to create awareness through the PRIs on the Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Yojna, Yuva Shakti Abhiyaan and Yuva Krida Abhiyaan which, which he desired to launch in the coming Buddha Mohatsava at Tawang on November 9.
He also highlighted on rural employment through Khadi and Village Industries Commission and opined for building Panchayat Ghars for which the Centre had already sanctioned funds.
Earlier, the Chief Minister highlighted problems of the state government and briefed the Union Minister about the progress of implementation of the Prime Minister’s package.
State Finance Minister Kalikho Pul urged Aiyar to relax the existing state matching share of 25 per cent to 10 per cent considering the very low outcome of the state exchequer, the sources added.
During his meeting with Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu on Sunday before leaving for Delhi, Mr Aiyar also asked the State Government to expedite the process of devolution of financial power with functionaries to pave way for effective functioning of the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI) in the State, official sources said here today.
Besides advising for constituting a state task force committee for power devolution to the PRIs and work on activity mapping, the Union Minister emphasised for sensitisation training programme for PR leaders.
“We should ensure that there is no misuse of funds because of lack of experience by the Panchayat leaders who need training,” he reasoned and advised the chief secretary to immediately convene a meeting of all Deputy Commissioners and Block Development Officers to discuss conducting massive awareness training programmes for the PRIs in their concerned districts. He also assured to depute technical consultants from the Centre for imparting training to PRIs.
One of the issues of concern for Arunachal Pradesh is asset maintenance, the minister pointed out and suggested that the state government should find out ways and means to generate non-plan revenues. He was also of the view that the non-plan revenue may be distributed into three equal shares to the State, the concerned department and the PRI.
While Rs 50 crore was sanctioned under the 12th Finance Commission whose first instalment of Rs 6.8 crore had been released, seven more instalments were in the waiting, which would lapse by March 31, he informed. “You need to expedite the expenditure and submit the UCs at the earliest,” he said. Aiyar urged the state government to create awareness through the PRIs on the Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Yojna, Yuva Shakti Abhiyaan and Yuva Krida Abhiyaan which, which he desired to launch in the coming Buddha Mohatsava at Tawang on November 9.
He also highlighted on rural employment through Khadi and Village Industries Commission and opined for building Panchayat Ghars for which the Centre had already sanctioned funds.
Earlier, the Chief Minister highlighted problems of the state government and briefed the Union Minister about the progress of implementation of the Prime Minister’s package.
State Finance Minister Kalikho Pul urged Aiyar to relax the existing state matching share of 25 per cent to 10 per cent considering the very low outcome of the state exchequer, the sources added.
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