CSCs likely to be purged due to inability to provide State share
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 26 2015:
Many Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSCs) meant for the State are likely to be purged due to the inability of the Manipur Government to provide its fund share.
Sources said that for the first 6 months of the current fiscal, the State Government has already received the Central Government's fund share for the CSCs.
The amount sanctioned has already been allocated to the respective departments according to the given guidelines.
However, the State Government has not been able to contribute its share based on the plan outlay of 2015-16 .
Since the State Government has not been able to provide its share, the administration is at a critical position as it has not been able to submit utilization certificates for the funds from the first phase installment even when it was already time for receiving the second phase installment.
Sources said that since the Manipur Government has not been able to provide its share, some CSCs are already on the verge of collapse.
It has been speculated that most CSCs are likely to be purged purely as a result of the State Government's helplessness in generating its share.
As per the Budget 2015-16, Centre:State funding pattern for some CSCs had undergone a change with the State supposed to contribute higher share.
Now there are 31 Schemes to be fully sponsored by the Union Government.
Eight schemes have been delinked from support of the Centre and 24 Schemes are now supposed to run with the changed sharing pattern.
Some of the schemes to be run with the changed sharing pattern are Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture; Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana; National Livestock Mission; National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture; Veterinary Services and Animal Health; National Rural Drinking Water Programme; National AIDS and STD Control programme; National Health Mission; Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyaan (RMSA); National Land Records Modernisation Programme; National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM); Rural Housing-Housing for All; PMKSY (including Watershed programme and micro irrigation) etc.
It may be mentioned that the schemes which had been delinked from Centre's support are National e-Governance Plan; Backward Regions Grant Funds; Modernization of Police Forces; Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Sashaktikaran Abhiyaan (RGPSA); Scheme for Central Assistance to the States for developing export infrastructure; Scheme for setting up of 6000 Model Schools; National Mission on Food processing and Tourist Infrastructure.