The finance department will hold a review meeting of all CSS from April 27 to May 15. It has asked the departments to provide details on financial restructuring and the amount is likely to be released by the Centre for these schemes.
Accepting the 14th finance commission recommendations, the Centre increased state's share in central taxes from 32% to 42% of the total divisible pool of central tax revenues. The Centre has delinked itself from the 8 CSS and has changed the sharing ratio of 24 others. New arrangements gave more powers to states in allocating money to CSS and taking on a greater fiscal responsibility for implementation.
"Purpose of these meetings is to push departments to contact their concerned ministries and find restructuring and revised guidelines. They should be able to tell us how much money they will get and how," said PS Mehra, principal secretary, finance.
However, the departments concerned are oblivious of the new guidelines. "We are still waiting for the instructions relating to state's share in the schemes. There is no clear information on anything," said an official from education department that runs sarva shiksha abhiyan and mid-day meal under CSS.
Another official from the health department claimed that officials in the central ministry themselves are unclear about the spread and the outlay of grants. "We have been asked to fill the details and take this work on priority. But what information shall we provide?" asked the official.
Currently, the Centre contributes 75% while the state puts in 25% in a large number of programmes. Some of the schemes included are rashtriya krishi vikas yojana, sarva shiksha abhiyan, national health mission, national rural drinking water and the Jawaharlal Nehru national urban renewal mission.
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