One-day workshop on “Decentralized Planning” ,

A Brief Report One-day workshop on “Decentralized Planning” was held on 27th July 2013 at Collectorate, Shivpuri District. Workshop was chaired by Mr. R.K.Jain, IAS, District Collector, Shivpuri. Around 100 participants attended the training programme in which Heads of the Departments of district, Chief Municipal Officer, ULBs, Chief Executive Officer, Block Panchayats, Planning and coordination Master Trainers and Data Entry Mrs. Swati Parihar, Specialist Operators were present. While Decentralized Planning, PMPSU, addressing the participants Mr. R.K. State Planning Commission, Jain said that the process of while taking the session she decentralisation planning should be explained the structure and process of completed within the time limit. He the District Decentralized Planning. instructed the concerned officers to She emphasized for the better focus on formation of TSG groups, coordination of District Planning Groups, Block Planning Groups and enhancing the capacities of TSGs, Technical support groups. She said formation of village level and ward that District and Block planning level plan, data entry. groups should guide, coordinate and Need for decentralisation monitor the entire process. Mr. Jitendra Pandit, State Facilitator, Unicef, State Planning Commission, She pointed out the roles and Bhopal briefed the need and concept responsibilities of different of Decentralized Planning. He had stakeholders of planning process like thrown light on Resource Envelop of District Planning Committees, the district with examples such as District Planning Groups, Block how much budget is allotted through Planning Groups, Block Planning NREGS, NRHM, NRLM etc. He Committees, Technical Support highlighted the need of active Groups, Gram Sabha, Ward Sabha, participation of community for Gram Panchayat and Village ensuring the quality district Development Committees. decentralized plan. Coordination and convergence is important in the all She underlined that urban planning steps of the process, he added. needs a lot of attention of concerned departments by involving ward online MIS. He also explained about members and communities. Actual downloading the formats and the needs of the communities should be process of filling the formats. He depicted, realistic and qualitative answered all the queries of plans are made, she added. participants related to software and clarified the doubts.

Feedbacks from Participants: 1. Provision of gram sabha approval is mandatory for lots of flag ship and other programmes and schemes, so attention of community is decreasing in participation of gram sabhas. 2. Untied funds of the departments could be used for unmet While emphasising the need of demands received by District planned and coordinative efforts of decentralized planning which is all departments for implementing not possible to fulfil under any decentralised planning she said that scheme and programme. all the activities of DDP are being monitored by DPG and BPG 3. Data entry is a big problem at regularly to ensure the quality of the block level because of village and ward level plans. She unavailability of trained human pointed out on the need of validation resources and connectivity of of data by department official’s internet. heads, Chief Executive Officer, 4. State planning commission Block Panchayats and Chief should provide enough time for Municipal Officers, which is entered discussion on District Plan at the by Data Entry Operators. state level meeting.

Further, she stressed that the response plan of the department should be filled by the HODs. This helps the concerned officers to take stock, review and plan for next year, she added. Decentralised Planning- Application Mr. Rajeev Bharadwaj, DPMU, Guna, explained the formats of District Decentralized Planning and

Road map of District: Mrs. Neetu Mathur, Deputy Collector, and Incharge District 1. List of all members of District Planning Officer, District Shivpuri Planning Committee, District requested all the CEOs of Block and Block Planning groups Panchayat and CMOs of Municipal and Technical Support Group Corporation for submission the is required from the district. information related to TSG

committees, training schedule and 2. Capacity Building plan and calendar of activities by 5th Augsut awareness generation/media 2013. plan is required from the district. ***

3. All process of district planning should be completed within the time limit.