1. BACKWARD REGIONS GRANT FUND
PRESENTATION ON INTER SECTORAL ISSUES
MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ
15 JULY 2008

2. The BRGF Spread

3. Backward Regions Grant Fund: funding design
4670 cr.
250 cr
Capacity building
4420 cr untied funds
GOI
formula
10 cr
per dist
50%
on Pop
50%
on Area
State
formula
Inter-se shares
between
PRI tiers and ULB
Shares between
Panchayats within the
allocation for the
Tier concerned
Incen-
tives

4. BRGF STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Theory : Grassroot level Planning
Planning &Implementation : By Panchayats & Municipalities
Plan Preparation: Panchayats& Municipalities
Consolidation of Plans :DPCs
Approval: State HPC
Monitoring Formal Audit, Social Audit, Peer Reviews
Planning Guidelines: Planning Commission Guidelines of

5. Backward Regions Grant Fund: Key features in design
Poverty and backwardness agenda
Converge substantial existing development inflows into selected districts into a well-coordinated integrated development.
Funds to be used for gap filling, capacity building and enlisting professional support for planning.
Clear focus on poverty reduction, which is to be closely tracked.
Possibility of Convergence- Sharing of Base line surveys, Data on health infrastructure, sharing of block level,district level NRHM goals with Panchayats and DPCs.

6. BRGF PLANS
No. of States to whom Development Grant has been released: 16 ( & 08-09)
Districts: 186
Infrastructure funded : Drinking Water & Sanitation, Anganwadis, Kitchen sheds, additional class rooms, PHCs, sub-health centres, Ayurvedic Dispensary, ANM
Centres & ANM Quarters

7. State Wise Details (2007-08) Sl. No
Name of the States Illustrative list (Districts with major investment in health)
Percentage of District’s allocation on Health and Sanitation*
Health & Sanitation Infrastructure funded under BRGF 1
Andhra Pradesh-
Total Allocation
Adilabad lakh
Anantpur lakh
Nizamabad lakh
Vizianagaram lakh
Adilabad %
Anantpur %
Nizamabad %
Vizianagaram %
Construction of Sub Health Centres, PHCs,Diarrhea sheds Electricity facility to sub health centres, provision of toilets 2
Chhattisgarh-
Total Allocation-
Bilaspur lakh
Dhamtari lakh
Korba lakh
Koriya lakh
Raigarh lakh
Sarguja akh
Bilaspur %
Dhamtari %
Korba %
Koriya %
Raigarh %
Sarguja %
Construction of Sub Health Centres, PHCs, Electricity facility to sub health centres.

8. Percentage of District’s allocation on Health and Sanitation*
Sl. No
Name of the States Illustrative list (Districts with major investment in health)
Percentage of District’s allocation on Health and Sanitation*
Health & Sanitation Infrastructure funded under BRGF 3
Madhya Pradesh-
Total Allocation-
Sheopur lakh
Chhatarpur lakh
Sidhi lakh
Sheopur %
Chhatarpur %
Sidhi %
Construction of Sub Health Centres, PHCs, Ayurvedic dispensary 4
Rajasthan-
Total Allcoation-
Jhalawar lakh
Barmer lakh
Udaipur lakh
Banswara lakh
Jaisalmer lakh
Chhittorgarh lakh
Jhalawar %
Barmer %
Udaipur %
Banswara % Jaisalmer %
Chhittorgarh %
Construction of ANM Centers and Quarters and Sub Health Centers.

9. Convergence At the Field Level
Breaking up of NRHM Plans Panchayat wise-NIC PR & NIC Health can do it.
Plan should reach every GP &every Village Health & Sanitation Committee
Village Health Sub-Committee should be a sub-Committee of the Gram Panchayat.
Mere Presence of Sarpanch not enough.
Measures agreed and recommendations included in the Report of the Committee to review modifications in CSS Guidelines relevant.

10. Advantages of involving Panchayats
Involving the Panchayats helps in monitoring delivery of services at the grass roots level.
Will reduce absenteeism of health workers.
Coverage of the target group under immunization and other health programmers
Identification of epidemics at an early stage.
Utilization of funds.
Distribution of publicity material to be made mandatory.

11. Present Status
Preparation of Plans underway with the help of TSIs.
Plan Plus software could be adopted.
Convergence would pool and focus resources better.
Moh&fw could consider writing to States/District Health Missions, line departments to share the data & plans with the Panchayats.

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