national informatics centreministry of panchayati raj planplus a software to strengthen planning at...

National Informatics CentreMinistry of Panchayati Raj

PlanPlus

A software to strengthen planning at grass roots level


Objective Facilitates the Decentralized Planning

process in Local Language by Converging the rural and urban plans to generate

an integrated district plan Supporting need/activity based planning rather

than scheme-driven capturing the planning work flow Converging the flow of funds from different central

and state sponsored schemes Acting as a decision support tool through the use

of supporting GIS and Graphs


Stakeholders Central Government Departments State Government Departments Urban Local Bodies Rural Local Bodies DPCs Citizens


PlanPlus Input Sources

Planning Commission Guideline Ramachandran Committee Report

on Decentralized Planning BRGF Guidelines issued by

Ministry of Panchayati Raj Mr Raghunandan, JS, MoPR and

other senior officials Inputs from Mr. Vijayanandan,

Principal Secy. PR, GoK Mr Alok Srivastav, UNDP Mr. Ramesh Ramanathan 7th Round Table Conference Mr. B N Yugandhar, Member,

Planning Commission Mr. Abhijit Sen, Member, Planning

Commission

Gram Panchayats Chalissery (Thrithala BP) Sreekrishnapuram

(Sreekrishnapuram BP) Thiruvegapuram (Pattambi

BP) Akathethara (Malampuzha BP)

Block Panchayats Malambuzha Thrithala

Municipalities Chittur-Thathamangalam Palakkad

Palakkad District Panchayat


Citizens/NGOs/ CBOs/

GramSabhas/Area Sabhas/

Planning Units

Planning Unit (ULBs & RLBs)

Technical Approval Committee (BTAC/DTAC/STAC)

DPC

Suggest Needs/Expectations

Formulate Projects(Sectoral Integration)

Assign Works to Projects

(Estimates,time, location etc)

Prepare Annual Plan(Prioritization &source of funding)

Evaluate for Technical Scrutiny/

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Forward to TAC

Evaluate for Administrative Approval

All works approved? Review

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All works approved? Review

Approved PlanYes

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Implementation Monitoring

PRIAccounting(PRIASoft)

Linkages

PlanPlus WorkFlow

NationalPanchayat Portal

Linkages


Suggestion Box The Gram/Ward Sabha or any planning unit or any individual

can express their needs to other planning units. For eg., a GP may suggest its BP to build a link road or a GP may suggest a municipality to build a warehouse

These suggestions are shared in public domain and can be one and all including DPC and the planning units

DPC and the planning units can decide if there is any need to take up the suggested need as a work in any of the Plans


Project Each planning unit begins with the

identification of projects A project is a logical collection of related

works, possibly belonging to different sectors Helps in bringing about sectoral integration

and ensures maximum impact of the interventions in different sectors


Works A project may have one or more works (but at

least one work) Work Details

Work Focus Area (sector) Proposed Asset details Proposed Location of work Target Beneficiaries Unit of work Cost estimates for each year of the work


Asset Specification


Cost Estimation


Activity/Expenditure Schedule


Annual Plan An annual plan would consist of one or more works from one or

more projects Based on the sector of the work and that of the scheme, the

software would automatically show the amount of expected allocation under different schemes.

The Planning unit can allocate funds from different schemes to different works

One work may be allocated funds from more than one scheme, thereby converging the funds of different schemes (if the schemes are for the same sector as that of the work or if the scheme has provision for untied funds)


Schemes The software captures details about the

schemes managed by various central and state government departments

Details include inter-alia, the sector/work area of the scheme its tied/untied status Annual releases to planning units etc


Converging Funds from different schemes


Annual Plan (contd.) Works may be included or excluded from the plan as per availability of

funds Priority can be set for each work; fund availability is automatically

calculated A higher tier (such as ZP or BP) may co-opt works of a lower tier unit A Planning unit can create a work which is part of a supra project The Planning unit would also have access to its development and

planning profile through GIS maps and graphs The Planning unit can view plans of other planning units within the

same district; this would enable it to take more informed decision about its own plan

The software also informs the planner about fund availability under different schemes under different sectors thereby ensuring maximum utilization of funds


Co-option of works A higher tier planning unit such as a ZP or BP can co-opt works

of its lower tier formations

Co-option of works is essentially s suggestion to DPC (and the concerned planning units) that the higher tier can take up the works of the lower tier planning units, possibly to serve the interests of a larger target population and/or if it is more viable economically

The approval or rejection of works would primarily lie with DPC after deliberations with all concerned planning units


Supra Projects Sometimes, two or more planning units are required to

collaboratively address an issue that is affecting them.

Each affected unit can include work to address the issue in its Plan

DPC will create a supra project (a dummy project) and link these works to the supra project

DPC can then monitor the supra project to evaluate its successful implementation


Technical and Administrative clearance Once an optimal Plan has been prepared by a planning unit, it gets

forwarded for technical and administrative clearance If any work requires technical or administrative norm clearance, then it

is evaluated The Plan is returned back to the Planning Unit if any work requires

modification to meet technical or administrative clearance (for eg., revision of cost estimates)

The Planning Unit must modify as per the clearance requirement and forward it back for clearance

If all works are cleared, the Plan is forwarded to DPC.


Plan Approval by DPC The DPC can generate sectoral views of the Plan (to be

reviewed by sectoral committees) and take decisions (approve, reject, review) on each work included in the Plan

The DPC can either approve a Plan (if all works are approved) or return the Plan to the planning unit for review/modification

The DPC can also take decisions on co-opted works and look at suggestions of planning units

The DPC would also have access to the development profile of the planning unit through various maps and graphs

The software also provides graphs to get visual view of the investment/allocation profile of the Plan


Identifying Priority Sector for the district DPC can identify priority sector for the district based

on its development profile

Once Plans are prepared, DPC can see how well the district priorities have been addressed by the Plan


Analytical support using GIS Census villages have already been mapped

to the panchayats of all BRGF districts Boundaries of Gram Panchayats in BRGF

districts are now available Census data can be overlaid on top of these

maps and used to analyze the planning unit’s development profile

Work is going on for the remaining districts


Reports Annual Plan History of the Plan as it goes through the cycle of revisions Status of approval of different works Expected Fund utilization Sectoral Plan Scheme Plan Sectorwise Scheme plan and vice versa Sectorwise BRGF allocation Gap filling by BRGF


Pilots proposed

Panchayats 250 Zilla Parishads 3151 Intermediate

Panchayats 1,08,924 Gram

Panchayats

Municipalities 38 Corporations 584 Municipalities 566 Town Areas 148 Notified Area

Councils

27 States


Integration with other PRI solutions Can be integrated with

Survey databases the accounting software (PRIASoft) for auditing

purposes Scheme monitoring systems

National Panchayat Portal (http://Panchayat.gov.in ) which contains dynamic portals of all PRIs in local language

Will provide an end-to-end solution for district Planning across the country


Thank You

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Documents

work slide

planning work flow

planning units dpc

work work details

decentralized planning

grass roots level slide

different sectors

local language