Comprehensive District Annual Plan 2011-12 Balasore District

Comprehensive District Annual Plan 2011-12 Balasore District
CHAPTER V
RESOURCE ENVELOPE FOR GRAM PANCHAYATS/
BLOCKS/ULBs FOR THE ANNUAL PLAN 2011-12
Balasore district has twelve CD blocks, three NAC (Jaleswar, Nilgiri and Soro) and one
Municipality (Balasore). The twelve CD Blocks are Bahanaga, Balasore, Baliapal, Basta,
Bhograi, Jaleswar, Khaira, Nilgiri, Oupada, Remuna, Simulia and Soro. Regarding, villages
and Gram Panchayats under these blocks, the district has 2971 revenue villages, out of
which 2586 are inhabited and 385 are uninhabited. These villages are under the
jurisdiction of 289 Gram Panchayats. Balasore municipality has 31, Jaleswar NAC 17,
Nilgiri NAC 13 and Soro 19 wards under jurisdiction.
In the present planning exercise, an attempt was made by the TSI to identify resource
envelope available to the grass root level planning units (Blocks/ULBs/GPs) from all
sources for the Annual Plan 2011-12.
But it was observed that majority of the planned schemes are being implemented by Line
Departments through their man power available either in the blocks/GP headquarter or
directly from district headquarter. Some of the line departments, because of staff shortage
have allotted more than one block to a single staff to implement development programmes.
Further, some of the activities/programmes like construction of road (ODR/MDRs),
saline/flood embankments, canals covers more than block in operational area. Segregating
the financial outlay and physical targets block wise requires lot of time and resources. Due
to paucity of time and other resources, TSI could not identify the total resources available in
each block covering all sectors and programmes.
Only resources under Rural Development programmes namely, MGNREGS, GGY, SGSY,
IAY, Mo Kudia have been identified block wise with the help of officials at DRDA, Block level
and GP level (only for MGNREGS & GGY). It may be mentioned here that these programmes
are usually implemented only after approval is obtained at Gram Sabha, then at Panchayat
Samiti level and finally at Zilla Parishad level. The planning units like Block and GPs also
spent major chunk of the funds allocated under the above rural development programmes,
except a part under MGNREGS, GGY and SGSY implemented by Line Department officials.
5.1. Resource allocation to Blocks & GPs.
MGNREGS:
Under MGNREGS, the total outlay for 2011-12 of the district is Rs. 4218.56 lakhs. The
allocation for each of the twelve blocks is presented in table 5.1 and Panchayats in table
5.2. Panchayat wise detailed list of work is presented in Annexure XX.
Table 5.1. Block wise allocation of funds for MGNREGS 2011-12
Name of Block Plan Outlay 2011-12 (Rs. in lakhs)
Bahanaga 319.90
Balasore 388.25
Baliapal 259.80
Basta 351.65
Bhograi 341.75
Jaleswar 336.70
Khaira 470.65
Nilgiri 416.10
Oupada 248.60
Remuna 414.95
Simulia 342.65
Soro 327.56
Total 4218.56
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