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23-July-2010 18:28 IST

Panchayat Empowerment & Accountability Incentive Scheme (PEAIS)

The Panchayat Empowerment & Accountability Incentive Scheme (PEAIS) is a Central Sector Plan Scheme which is being implemented by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj since 200506. The scheme had an allocation of Rs.5.00 crore for 200506, which was raised to Rs.10.00 crore for the subsequent years. Funds released to the State Governments/UTs on 100% grant basis, after assessing their devolution of the 3Fs (Funds, Functions and Functionaries). The Scheme has continued in the 11th Five Year Plan period with annual allocation of Rs.10.00 crore. From 200607 onwards the criteria for eligibility were derived on the basis of devolution of 3Fs, which was developed by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi. During 200708, the index was revised to include a fourth dimension of Framework, which specifically tests if the State has met the four mandatory Constitutional requirements viz. establishing the State Election Commission, holding PRI Election every five years, establishing State Finance Commission and setting up of District Planning Committees. For 200809 NCAER, New Delhi was engaged by the Ministry for compiling the information on the parameters constituting the DI and processes the same. NCAER submitted the final Report titled An Index of Devolution for Assessing Environment for PRIs in the StatesEmpirical Assessment2008. An Evaluation of the States under the PEAIS for 200809 was based on a two stage assessment. The first stage was called the Framework Criteria, which was based on the following 4 fundamental Constitutional requirements: Establishment of State Election Commission; Holding of elections to the PRIs; Setting up State Finance Commission and Constitution of the District Planning Committees (DPCs). For the year 200809, the Ministry awarded 10 prizes in all, which went to Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu & Kerala as First Prize of Rs.1.50 crore each, Karnataka, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana as Second Prize of Rs.75 lakh each and to Chhattisgarh and Assam as Third Prize of Rs.50 lakh each. For 200910, the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) was commissioned to undertake the study of the Devolution Index and rank States accordingly. As in 200809, evaluation of States under PEAIS for 200910 was based on a twostage assessment. The first stage, called the Framework Criteria, was based on the following 4 fundamental Constitutional requirements as in 200809. States that fulfilled each of these 4 fundamental requirements, qualified for evaluation in terms of various indicators of the DI. The indicators for the DI aim at assessing the state of devolution in respect of the 3Fs, namely, funds, functions, and functionaries by the respective States to the PRIs. The 200910 study has attempted some important conceptual and methodological improvements. Firstly, States have been assessed on how well they have implemented the framework criteria. For example, as against only assessing if State Finance Commission (SFCs) have been set up as a qualifying criterion, delays in constitution of SFCs, submission of reports etc. have also been studied. Secondly, weighted scores, that reflect in the importance of particular criteria have been used. Thirdly, scoring has been more differentiated by grading various responses. Finally, the accountability parameters have been built in systematically. The indicators for the DI study this year are as follows: Indicators for the Devolution Index Study 2009-10: Framework x State Election CommissionHolding regular Panchayats elections, Gap and dissolution x State Finance Commission Qualification of members prescribed in the Act, Constitution at regular interval, Acceptance of recommendations, Timeliness of actions thereon. District Planning Committees and their working Regular Meeting, Regular submission of plans, x Consolidation of plans and its integration with State plan. Functions x Functions Assigned to Panchayats Legislative devolution , Activity mapping,Executive orders issued, The role of Panchayats in planning, implementation, spending funds and monitoring. x Role of Panchayats in Important Central and State Schemes x Role of Gram Sabha - Number and of meetings held and whether minutes are maintained; Role of Gram Sabha in approval of plans, budget, UCs and beneficiary lists x Transparency in Panchayats Mechanism to deal with RTI and corruption, Whether there is an Ombudsman Finances x Empowerment of Panchayats to impose and collect revenue Taxes, fees, duties, cess etc. collected by Panchayats, Share of own revenue of Panchayat in State own revenue

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x Fund availability with Panchayats x Panchayat Nidhi/Fund: (Receipt & Expenditure) x Timely release of Twelfth Finance Commission grants to the Panchayats x Set of criteria, weight to allocate fund to the Panchayats x System of fiscal management, monitoring and evaluation Functionaries x Accountability of functionaries to Panchayats x Panchayats own officials x Panchayats super cession x Role of Panchayats in parallel bodies/institutions x Capacity building of functionaries x Infrastructure for efficient & effective management of Panchayats Indicators related to functional devolution include legislative devolution, activity mapping, issuing of executive orders, the actual activities performed by Panchayats, the role of the Gram Sabhas etc. The indicators regarding devolution of finances include the fiscal domain of Panchayats, i.e. taxes, fees etc. levied by them, grants from State Government and the system of fiscal management. The indicators regarding the devolution of functionaries include control of Panchayats over officials, capacity building, role of Panchayats in parallel bodies etc. Performance of the States and the UTs 24 States and Union Territories (UTs) participated in the evaluation exercise. Jharkhand did not qualify, as elections to Panchayats have not been held in the State. Evaluation of the performance of the 23 States / UT that qualified on the DI is as follows:

Devolution Index in descending order on overall rank Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 States Kerala Karnataka Tamil Nadu West Bengal Maharashtra Madhya Pradesh Gujarat Andhra Pradesh Sikkim Himachal Pradesh Haryana Orissa Uttar Pradesh Bihar Lakshadweep Rajasthan Goa Chhattisgarh Punjab Uttarakhand Assam Arunachal Pradesh Chandigarh D1 Framework 92.59 90.74 89.63 96.30 73.52 74.44 54.44 70.74 87.04 88.15 51.67 67.04 80.00 73.33 74.44 70.37 64.81 48.70 62.41 41.67 63.70 46.48 33.33 D2 Function 80.76 77.95 77.11 70.90 65.52 63.52 59.78 45.01 59.11 53.89 44.66 56.76 42.47 53.98 28.46 30.72 29.78 28.80 34.25 28.75 23.08 19.71 23.44 D3 Finance 69.62 56.11 58.76 61.56 62.78 53.50 51.56 53.77 24.59 25.30 40.15 27.17 35.31 22.69 33.33 34.83 25.81 37.28 11.07 22.52 26.56 3.17 5.46 D4 Functionaries 61.25 64.08 49.58 46.25 44.17 54.17 44.58 35.83 40.17 43.83 40.17 31.67 23.17 30.33 41.25 28.00 34.17 26.25 40.17 30.83 12.67 21.25 16.25 DI Overall 74.73 69.45 67.06 66.51 61.49 59.78 53.07 50.10 47.43 47.01 43.23 42.93 41.73 41.20 39.62 37.56 34.52 34.24 31.54 28.92 28.31 18.25 17.19

For the year 200910, the Ministry has decided to award 6 prizes in all, as follows: First Prize : Kerala & Karnataka Rs.2.50 crore each; Second Prize : Tamil Nadu & West Bengal Rs.1.50 crore each; Third Prize: Maharashtra Rs.1.00 crore. Sikkim being the Best performing North East State: Sikkim Rs. 1.00 crore. The States were facilitated on the occasion of the National Panchayat Diwason 24.4.2010. The ranking of States that were adjudged for the award as per DIs for the (200506, 200607,200708, 200809 and 200910) is given below:

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States Madhya Pradesh West Bengal Tamil Nadu Kerala Karnataka Sikkim Himachal Pradesh Haryana Chhattisgarh Assam Andhra Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Maharashtra Arunachal Pradesh Rajasthan Goa Tripura Orissa Bihar Punjab Manipur Gujarat Lakshadweep Uttarakhand Chandigarh

Rank 200910 6 4 3 1 2 9 10 11 18 21 8 13 5 22 16 17 12 14 19 7 15 20 23

Rank 200809 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Rank 200708 6 3 1 2 4 10 7 13

Rank 200607 6 3 4 1 2 5 10

Rank 200506 3 1 1 4 7 4

9 8 8

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Statewise information fregarding the release of funds for the year 200506, 20062007, 200708, 2008 09 and 200910. ***** S.No. State/UTs 200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 ***** Funds Funds Funds Funds Funds released released released released released ST/ 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Assam Andhra Pradesh Chhatisgarh Goa Haryana Himachal Pradesh Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Manipur Orissa Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu U.P West Bengal A&N Islands Chandigarh Daman & Diu Dadra &Nagar Haveli Lakshadweep Puducherry Maharashtra Total 64.88 24.40 106.55 106.55 39.88 64.88 7.14 85.72 500.00 69.24 67.14 84.74 114.34 73.44 72.84 70.34 81.54 82.64 83.74 36.52 18.73 32.29 46.59 42.25 23.62 1000.00 75.00 50.00 50.00 75.00 100.00 100.00 75.00 50.00 75.00 100.00 50.00 100.00 100.00 1000.00 50.00 50.00 75.00 75.00 75.00 150.00 150.00 75.00 150.00 150.00 1000.00

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