National Informatics Centre Ministry of Panchayati Raj PlanPlus A software to strengthen planning at grass roots level
Dec 21, 2015
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PlanPlus
A software to strengthen planning at grass roots level
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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
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Stakeholders Central Government Departments State Government Departments Urban Local Bodies Rural Local Bodies DPCs Citizens
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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
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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/
Sanction
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
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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
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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
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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
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Asset Specification
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Cost Estimation
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Activity/Expenditure Schedule
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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)
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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
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Converging Funds from different schemes
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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