Punjab Planned Development - Punjab PCS Exam Notes

Punjab Planned Development

Department of Planning and Planned Development

The Department of Planning manages all issues identifying with the definition, development, evaluation and correction of Annual Plans and Five Year Plans; and sub-plans for sub-bumpy, wager, outskirt and other extraordinary zones. The office conducts business on all issues identifying with coordination of Plans of the Administrative Departments other than all issues relating to the Planning Commission, Government of India. The Department of Planning is likewise in charge of accumulation, aggregation investigation and understanding of Economic and Statistical information and coordination of Statistical exercises of different divisions in the State. The Department of Planning has two wings i.e. Punjab State Planning Board and Economic and Statistical Organization, Punjab.

Schemes for planned development in Punjab

Centrally Sponsored Schemes
Border Area Development Programme

The Punjab State Planning Board (PSPB) oversees the implementation of Border Area Development Programme in the six Border districts of Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Gurdaspur,Pathankot, Fazilka and Ferozepur for which 100% Special Central Assistance is received from the Govt. of India. The programme aims at meeting the special needs of the people living in remote/inaccessible areas situated near the border.

Backward Regions Grant Fund (Previously Named RSVY)

Planning Commission has launched a new initiative for backward districts under BRGF. District Hoshiarpur has been selected for this programme. The Department of Rural Development and Panchayats is acting as a nodal department for the implementation of BRGF.

State Funded Schemes
Decentralised Planning

In order to achieve optimum utilization of meager resources and also to ensure peoples’ participation at the grass root level, the concept of decentralized planning was introduced in the State a way back in the 1984-85. Accordingly the District Planning and Development Boards were set up in Punjab in 1987.

But the actual work of district planning was started in the year 1990-91, when the schemes and programmes of concerned Administrative Departments, which could be better implemented, supervised and coordinated at the district level were decentralised.

Accordingly, the District Planning and Development Board headed by a Cabinet Minister/State Minister as Chairman/Vice Chairman have been constituted at the district level to supervise/monitor the work of district planning. All sitting MLAs of the districts, Chairman Zila Parishad, 12 non-official members including one ex-serviceman, one sarpanch or samiti member or Zila Parishad member from the Block, mayor of Municipal Corporations and one or two presidents of class ‘B’ and ‘C’ Municipal Councils have been nominated as members of the Board.

These Boards have full power to efficiently and cost effectively implement the district level schemes and also identify areas and groups of people, which needs special attention for equitable socio-economic growth. In compliance with the provision of Article 243ZD of the 74th Constitutional Amendment, 1992, District Planning Committees (DPCs) are mandatory to be constituted in each state of the country for the purpose of preparing a Draft District Development Plan at the grass root level. The Punjab District Planning Committees Act, 2005 was enacted to provide for the constitution of the District Planning Committees with a view to consolidate the plans prepared by the Panchayats and the Municipalities in the districts and to prepare the draft development plans for the districts as a whole in the state. The Punjab District Planning Committees Procedure of Transaction of Business Rules were also notified in 2006.

The revised guidelines for holding elections for electing 4/5th members of the District Planning Committees from amongst the elected members of Zila Parishads and Urban Local Bodies were issued to all the districts in 2008. The rules of DPC has already been notified by the State Government vide notification dated 25th July, 2006.

iii) Present Status of Constitution of District Planning Committees
The District Planning Committees have been constituted in all districts of the state.

iv)Assistance to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO)

The Department of Planning allocates funds to various Administrative Departments like Health, Social Security and Welfare, Welfare of SCs & BCs, Education,, Animal Husbandry etc. for providing assistance to Mother NGO-SOSVA(N) and other field NGOs which are engaged in improving the lot of people of the State.

v) Assistance to Research Institutions

The Department of Planning provides grant-in-aid to Research Institutions like Institute for Development and Communication (IDC) and Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) to promote research activities in the State. A sum of Rs. 5 Cr ( 1 Cr as ACA during 2003-04 and Rs. 4 Cr during 2006-07 and 2007-08) given to IDC for creation of Corpus Fund. A sum of Rs. 5.00 Cr. stands released to CRRID for creation of Corpus Fund during 2006-07 and 2007-08. During 2012-13, the Planning Department had provided grant of Rs. 1.00 Cr to CRRID on the non- plan side, against the grant received from Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).

vi) Punjab Nirman Programme

The State Govt. decided to launch a special project namely ‘Punjab Nirman Programme’ for improving the living conditions of people of Punjab living in rural and urban areas and to address their felt developmental needs more effectively at the grass root level in consultation with the local area representatives during 2005-06. The process of re-allocation of funds between the Departments and from one scheme to another being complicated and time consuming, it has been decided to provide the funds at the District level for expeditious identification, and execution of essential works relating to different Departments. This will not only expedite the fulfillment of the felt needs of the people but will also ensure the participation of the elected representatives of the people at grass-root level and encourage decentralisation and delegation, in the Planning process. This programme does not intend to replace ongoing schemes of various Departments which will go on unabated. Works under this programme will complement and supplement the regular schemes of the Departments and will help expediting their implementation.

Punjab State Planning Board

Introduction

With the developing variety of Governmental capacities and expanding size of the formative designs, It was fundamental that assets were used in the most beneficial way, regardless of whether in monetary or social terms. An audit of the financial improvement over the most recent two decades uncovered grave development twists and sectoral and also zone unevenness.

Arranging had been the low maintenance action of a Government Department. The nonappearance of an enough prepared Apex Planning Body in the State had prompted the crumbling of formative procedure into a unimportant conglomeration of formative intuition in which tasks and projects were set up by concerned Departments, and the Planning Department had possessed itself with the pruning of their proposition to fit into the general size of the State Plan.

The Punjab State Planning Board(PSPB) was made vide State Govt. Notice dated 27.9.1972 after a choice taken by the Punjab Government on 13.9.1972. The formation of Punjab State Planning Board was done on the proposal of the Planning Commission with a view to have a summit Planning Body comprising of topic pros and specialized specialists as a Board or a Commission to fortify the departmental apparatus in charge of the definition of improvement designs in the State.

The State Government has issued Notifications every now and then with respect to constitution of the Punjab State Planning Board. The State Planning Board works as Advisory Body and makes proposals to the State Government. The Punjab State Planning Board works as the Department of Planning at the Secretariat level and issues guidance to other Administrative Departments of the State Government. The Punjab State Planning Board was made with a view to pull in focal help with the type of ordinary focal help, extra focal help, uncommon focal help and so forth for design projects of the State from the Planning Commission, Government of India and the staff posted in the State Planning Board is doing this fill in as a regulatory division at Secretariat level.

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