meri saheli magazine online

meri saheli magazine online

meri saheli magazine online published this article page no   50 mission antyodaya it seeks to converge government interventions with gram panchayats by pooling human and financial resources.  egramswaraj a webbased portal which unifies the planning accounting and monitoring functions of gram panchayats. 12 roadblocks for pris in effective delivery of services  elite capture powers and resources devolved to local bodies are frequently captured by the powerful upper caste people resulting in inequities in access to services.  lack of fiscal decentralisation in most states panchayats get wide responsibilities without fiscal and administrative resources. over 90 per cent of the funds that pris handle are tied to some schemes (mostly central schemes). absence of untied funds inhibits efforts and demotivates local bodies from engaging in meaningful planning processes. o also with little of own revenue funds pris in many states have been reduced to simple agents of higherlevel governments.  structural deficiencies absence of any secretarial support and lower levels of technical knowledge restricted the aggregation of bottom up planning .  adhocism nonavailability of information at the local level leads to adhocism in prioritisation of schemes programmes poor decisionmaking and narrow participation of people in the process.  proxy representation there is a presence of panchpati and proxy representation in case of women and scsts representatives respectively.  accountability arrangements remain weak due to manual auditing.  lack of clarity in devolved functions and paucity of adequate qualified functionaries has allowed concentration of powers with the states and thereby restraining the elective representatives who are more aware and sensitive to the ground level. measures needed to make the local governments really effective in service delivery  ensuring participatory local level planning by the pris to identify needs levels of delivery and the enhancements desired by the people in each sector.  assigning clearly demarcated roles to the pris through activity mapping.  confining centrally sponsored and state schemes to a small number of important programmes to achieve declared national and state goals and also providing adequate space for the pris to participate in these schemes.  undertaking a wellstructured process of administrative and fiscal devolution that matches the resource availability at each level of the panchayats with functions assigned to it.  providing capacity to the pris in the widest sense of the term to perform their responsibilities efficiently  leveraging technology digitalisation and information and communication technology (ict) intervention such as geographical information system (gis) and satellite imagery to track project implementation has vast potential to ensure more accountable responsive and citizen friendly pris. o fifteenth finance commission has also recommended to enable online auditing of accounts and their consolidation at the state and allindia level. conclusion the bottomup pressure from the people demanding efficient delivery of public goods is increasing on the state executive. it can be effectively met only with deeper decentralization meri saheli magazine online buy.

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