New Delhi [India], January 15 (ANI): The Union Government has launched the primary instalment of the XV Finance Commission Untied Grants for Rural Local Bodies in Sikkim for the monetary yr 2025-26.
According to an official press launch from the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, the full disbursement for this instalment quantities to Rs 643.50 lakh. The funding is meant to bolster the executive and developmental capability of the state’s grassroots establishments.
These funds are allotted to 5 eligible District Panchayats (DPs) and all 199 eligible Gram Panchayats (GPs) throughout the state. In addition to the allocation for the present monetary yr, the federal government has additionally launched Rs 17.50 lakh.
This quantity constitutes the withheld portion of the second instalment of Untied Grants for the 2024-25 monetary yr and is supplied to at least one moreover eligible District Panchayat.
‘The Union Government has launched the primary instalment of the XV Finance Commission Untied Grants for Rural Local Bodies in Sikkim for the monetary yr 2025-26, amounting to 643.50 lakhs. These funds are for the eligible 5 District Panchayats (DPs) and all 199 eligible Gram Panchayats (GPs) of the State. Further, Rs17.50 lakhs of the withheld portion of the 2nd instalment of Untied Grants for FY 2024-25 has additionally been launched to a further eligible 1 District Panchayat,’ the discharge mentioned.
The Government of India, by means of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj and the Ministry of Jal Shakti’s Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, recommends the discharge of XV-FC grants to the states for his or her Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) and Rural Local Bodies (RLBs).
Once these suggestions are finalised, the Ministry of Finance releases the allotted funds.
Under the present pointers, grants are beneficial and launched in two instalments inside a single monetary yr. This ensures a constant stream of monetary assets to the agricultural native our bodies. The Untied Grants present these establishments with the flexibleness to deal with various native necessities.
The Ministry launch states that ‘The Untied Grants will probably be utilised by Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) / Rural Local Bodies (RLBs) for location-specific felt wants, underneath the twenty-nine topics enshrined within the Eleventh Schedule of the Constitution, apart from salaries and different institution prices.’
The Tied Grants are targeted on delivering important primary companies to the agricultural inhabitants. A serious portion of those funds is devoted ‘for the fundamental companies of (a) sanitation and upkeep of ODF standing, and this could embody administration and therapy of family waste and human excreta and faecal sludge administration specifically, and (b) provide of ingesting water, rainwater harvesting and water recycling.’ (ANI)