Writeup AP 2011-12 - Punjab State Planning Board

incurred. An amount of Rs. 1.00 lac was provided for the Annual Plan 2009-10 but no outlay
has been provided in the Annual Plan 2010-2011 & 2011-12.
CSST-3 Monitoring Cell for MPLAD (Member of Parliament Local Area
Development) in Punjab
Outlay – Rs. 1.50 lac
10.2.5 The Prime Minister on 23 rd of December 1993 announced the “Member of
Parliament Local Area Development Scheme” (MPLAD) in the Parliament.
10.2.6 Under this scheme, funds to the tune of Rs. 2.00 Cr is allotted to Member of
Parliament every year, which are allocated on the basis of recommendation made by the MPs
and are spent on development works carried under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner
in the respective areas at district level. Economic & Statistical Organization, Punjab (ESO) is
performing the duty as State agency under this scheme and maintains liaison with the Deputy
Commissioner at the District level and Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
at Government of India. A cell is being created in Economic & Statistical Organization,
Punjab for monitoring of this scheme. During 2008-09, no expenditure was incurred. An
outlay of Rs. 1.00 lac was provided for the Annual Plan 2009-10 but no outlay has been
provided in the Annual Plan 2010-2011. However, an outlay of Rs. 2.50 lac has been
provided in the Revised Estimate 2010-11 However, for the Annual Plan 2011-12, an outlay
of Rs. 1.50 lac has been provided.
New Scheme
CSST-6 India Statistical Strengthening Project (ISSP) (GoI:SS) (75:25)
Outlay – Rs. 100.00 lac
10.2.7 The objective of this scheme is to strengthen the statistical capacity of all
states and Union Territories, especially with regard to the collection, compilation and
dissemination of statistics. This project was initiated on the basis of recommendations of the
National Statistical Commission Report (2001), which inter-alia has underlined the critical
role which all the States/UTs have to play in generating the data for a wide range of national
level statistics and providing appropriate and adequate data, that too in a timely manner for
meeting the requirements of policy and planning at the state and sub-state level.
10.2.8 The total budget of this project at national level would be of Rs. 650.43 crores
out of which 80% would be funded through the World Bank Loan and 20% would be borne
by the Govt. of India. Out of 20% share of Govt. of India the cost (except for that on
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