New Delhi [India], December 20 (ANI): The Union Government has launched Rs 127.586 crores to Rural Local Bodies and Panchayati Raj Institutions in Tamil Nadu in the course of the monetary yr 2025-26, an official launch from the Ministry of Panchayati Raj stated on Saturday.
According to the discharge, the quantity represents the second instalment of untied grants below the XV Finance Commission for 2025-26. These grants have been launched for 9 District Panchayats, 74 Block Panchayats and a couple of,901 Gram Panchayats which have duly elected our bodies and fulfil the prescribed eligibility situations.
All these native teams have our bodies elected by the folks. They additionally meet the mandatory situations to obtain these funds.
According to the discharge, the method of sending this cash entails a number of authorities companies working collectively. The Ministry of Panchayati Raj and the Ministry of Jal Shakti, which oversees ingesting water and sanitation, assess the state’s wants. They then inform the Ministry of Finance that the cash must be despatched. The Ministry of Finance is the workplace that lastly releases the funds to the states.
‘The allotted grants are really useful and launched in two instalments in a monetary yr,’ the discharge said.
‘The Untied Grants will probably be utilised by RLBs/ PRIs for location-specific felt wants, below the Twenty-Nine topics enshrined within the Eleventh Schedule of the Constitution, aside from salaries and different institution prices,’ it added.
The Tied Grants can be utilized for the fundamental providers of (a) sanitation and upkeep of ODF standing, and this could embrace administration and remedy of family waste, and human excreta and fecal sludge administration specifically and (b) provide of ingesting water, rainwater harvesting and water recycling.
Earlier this yr, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin accused the Union authorities of withholding funds owed to Tamil Nadu, together with allocations below the Samagra Shiksha scheme.
The Samagra Shiksha scheme is an built-in scheme for college schooling overlaying all the gamut from pre-school to class XII. The scheme treats college schooling as a continuum and is in accordance with Sustainable Development Goal for Education (SDG-4).
‘On the opposite, the Union BJP Government is denying funds that rightfully belong to the States. Tamil Nadu is being denied #SamagraShiksha funds solely as a result of we refuse to simply accept #HindiImposition. When will this injustice finish?’ Stalin requested on X.
He reiterated his demand for cooperative federalism, saying that India can’t progress by ‘punishing states that defend their rights and stand for his or her folks.’
He urged the Centre to launch the pending funds and respect the ideas of federalism.
‘India can’t develop by punishing States that defend their rights and stand for his or her folks. Respect federalism, launch the funds, and let the folks profit from what’s rightfully theirs!’ he stated. (ANI)