Manual for Integrated District Planning - National Institute of Rural ...

Manual for Integrated District Planning
Box 80
• Key indicators of the existing status of public infrastructure, services and human
development in the area concerned as the baseline scenario for public reference
(the stock-taking report).
• Summary of existing programmes and fund allocations (the budget envelope).
• Summary of processes followed for getting the village/ward-level wish-lists prepared
(the planning process).
• Aggregate priorities emerging from the village/ward wish-lists (sector-wise
consolidated lists).
• Summary of processes followed for translation of aggregate wish-lists into technicalfinancial
proposals at appropriate levels (the ‘plan plus’ matching of wish list
with funds).
• Summary of processes followed for getting final approvals to the technical-financial
proposals (the planning workflow, with dates of clearance).
• Final technical plans and financial allocations with details of works selected, fundflows,
implementation process, community role, role of stakeholders in monitoring
and timelines, (the plan, per se).
• Progress and status of any of the above processes.
• Details of public authorities, documents, records and other information held by
them; names, contacts and roles-responsibilities of key functionaries associated
with the above processes.
• Names and contacts of Public Information Officers (PIOs) for seeking further
information, etc.
The JNNURM also envisages the creation of another tier of participative decisionmaking
in the municipality below the ward-level, the Area Sabha, through the
mandatory reform of a Community Participation Law (CPL). Under the model
provisions circulated under the guidelines, all Area Sabhas in a ward will be linked to
the ward level or ward committees through Area Sabha representatives, who will be
community representatives. There will thus be a minimum of three decision-making
tiers in a municipality: the municipality, the ward committee and the Area Sabhas.
In addition, states may choose to have an intermediary level for administrative
reasons, clustering multiple wards into a regional structure between the ward and
the municipality.
8.5.4 Monitoring of plans by gram, ward and area Sabhas: It is necessary to ensure that
citizens; forums such as the gram, ward and Area Sabhas meet and regularly reviews
plan implementation. Some measures that facilitate this are in Box 81.
8.5.5 Record of meetings as a mandatory requirement for funding: All programmes
that devolve funds to local governments should make the record of Gram Sabha and
Ward Sabha meetings a mandatory condition for funding. This will create a sense of
seriousness about such meetings among the higher tiers/levels of local bodies also
because they might lose funding on account of non-functional village/ward sabhas.
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