Planning Commission guidelines by year end for district agriculture plan
The Planning Commission will come out with guidelines for preparing a comprehensive district agriculture plan (C-DAP) by December end for effective and transparent disbursement of the Rs 25,000 crore package for agriculture announced by Prime Mini...
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: The Planning Commission will come out with guidelines for preparing a comprehensive district agriculture plan (C-DAP) by December end for effective and transparent disbursement of the Rs 25,000 crore package for agriculture announced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The CDAP would be integrated into overall district plan incorporating all constitutional obligations.
The guidelines would help in effective and transparent disbursement of Rs 25,000 crore package announced by the Prime Minister. The guidelines would be generic in nature and would help districts to plan their annual expense and demands.
"We have completed discussion in all regions and are in the process of compilation and would be submitting it for overall debate in the commission in the next two months," said a senior official involved in preparation of these guidelines in the Planning Commission.
The highlight of the guidelines is that each Block, Taluk, village Panchayat and district would be asked to come out with a vision statement. The vision statement would include the programmes and targets the block, taluk, village panchayat and districts have set and also a report card for the past year, sources in the Planning Commission said.
Once the CDAP is submitted to State Planning Department for inclusion in the state plan, it would be sent to Planning Commission for examination and approval.
Projects and activities need implementation in more sub-district panchayats to be forwarded to upper panchayats to consider and include in its plan. An activity mapping at all levels will help in bringing transparency, sources in the Planning Commission said.
Department of Agriculture is the nodal agency for preparing the CDAP with help of the planning units in the commission. While the Grass root planning manual issued by Ministry of Panchayati Raj will be a broad guideline to follow the Planning process, the present initiative will be limited to DAP.
Sources in Planning Commission said that the initiative for formulating the plans at grass root levels was taken up following a brain storming with the Prime Minister early this year.
"We have received inputs from 54 districts where the pilot projects for CDAP were undertaken and the response has been overwhelming. The realisation in the Commission was that Planning has to be responsive to the logistics needed for execution," said a senior Planning Commission official.
The CDAP would be integrated into overall district plan incorporating all constitutional obligations.
The guidelines would help in effective and transparent disbursement of Rs 25,000 crore package announced by the Prime Minister. The guidelines would be generic in nature and would help districts to plan their annual expense and demands.
"We have completed discussion in all regions and are in the process of compilation and would be submitting it for overall debate in the commission in the next two months," said a senior official involved in preparation of these guidelines in the Planning Commission.
The highlight of the guidelines is that each Block, Taluk, village Panchayat and district would be asked to come out with a vision statement. The vision statement would include the programmes and targets the block, taluk, village panchayat and districts have set and also a report card for the past year, sources in the Planning Commission said.
Once the CDAP is submitted to State Planning Department for inclusion in the state plan, it would be sent to Planning Commission for examination and approval.
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Projects and activities need implementation in more sub-district panchayats to be forwarded to upper panchayats to consider and include in its plan. An activity mapping at all levels will help in bringing transparency, sources in the Planning Commission said.
Department of Agriculture is the nodal agency for preparing the CDAP with help of the planning units in the commission. While the Grass root planning manual issued by Ministry of Panchayati Raj will be a broad guideline to follow the Planning process, the present initiative will be limited to DAP.
Sources in Planning Commission said that the initiative for formulating the plans at grass root levels was taken up following a brain storming with the Prime Minister early this year.
"We have received inputs from 54 districts where the pilot projects for CDAP were undertaken and the response has been overwhelming. The realisation in the Commission was that Planning has to be responsive to the logistics needed for execution," said a senior Planning Commission official.
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