New Delhi, Jan 10 (ANI): The Central Government had at the time of presentation of the budget for the year 2010-11announced its decision to introduce a special scheme to address the development of 33 Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected districts.
It was inter-alia, stated that the Planning Commission would prepare an Integrated Action Plan (IAP) for the affected areas and that adequate funds would be made available to support the action plan. The 33 districts (later expanded to 34) referred to in the Finance Minister's announcement were a sub-set of the 83 LWE affected districts identified by the Ministry of Home Affairs for coverage under its Security Related Expenditure (SRE) Scheme.
This sub-set consisted of those districts where more than 20 percent of the Police Stations experienced some incidents of naxal violence.
Subsequently, West Medinipur District of West Bengal was added to the list due to the situation prevailing there, taking the total to 35 districts.
The Integrated Action Plan was formulated as an additional central assistance scheme on 100 percent grant basis in November 2010. To begin with, the Integrated Action Plan (IAP) for 60 tribal and backward districts was to be implemented with a block grant of Rs.25 crore and Rs.30 crore per district during 2010-11 and 2011-12 respectively for which the funds were to be placed at the disposal of the Committee headed by the District Collector and consisting of the Superintendent of Police of the district and the District Forest Officer.
The implementation of the scheme, which commenced in December 2010, saw the districts immediately finalize the works to be taken up, in all the 60 districts.
Currently, the implementation of IAP in the districts is in full swing. The total funds released so far for the year 2011-12 is Rs.1090 crore. Out of total amount of Rs.2590 crores released so far to the nine states, the expenditure as on 27.12.2011 is Rs.1468.83 crore i.e. 56.71percent of the funds has been released.
Under the IAP, so far 62327 projects for an amount of Rs. 3230.02 crore have been taken up in the nine states. These include construction of school buildings/school furniture, anganwadi centres, drinking water facilities, roads, panchyat bhawan, community halls, godowns/PDS shops, skill development centres, health centers etc.
44.42 percent of projects taken up so far have been completed.
The Planning Commission will undertake macro level monitoring of the scheme and implementation of the scheme will be reviewed and suitable decisions taken on the modalities for implementation of the scheme as a part of the 12th Five Year Plan.
The implementation of IAP has had a good response. A number of requests have been received from the Chief Ministers, Members of Parliament and State Governments for inclusion of more districts under the IAP. On the basis of requests received from the State Govts., the Govt. of India has decided in December last year to include additional 18 LWE affected districts under IAP from the financial year 2011-12. (ANI)
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