Gram Jyothi In Bangaru Telangana 

Gram Jyothi
The Government of Telangana launched Gram Jyothi program as a logical continuation of Mana Ooru-Mana Pranalika. The objective of Grama Jyothi is to improve the service delivery to the people in core sectors through the strengthening of the Gram Panchayats by bringing together the efforts of various departments working at the Gram Panchayat level which are hitherto working independent of one another. Grama Jyothi aims synergise the developmental activities of the departments by achieving functional and financial convergence through preparation of Gram Panchayat Developmental Plans.

GramaJyothi seeks to exploit the enormous collective energy of the people by making those active partners in the development process, Decision Making and take good advantage of the Social Capital at the Village level. The goal of Grama Jyothi is bring in much desired accountability, transparency in the functioning of public institutions Woking at Gram Panchayat level and make them responsive to the needs of the people by establishing.

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Vision:
Enable and facilitate vibrant Gram Panchayats that are responsive to people’s needs and aspirations though community participation.

Mission:

• Better coordination of line departments through planning process for convergence of major Schemes which work in Silos
• To bring in synergy of Developmental efforts at GP Level
• Preparation of GP development Plans
• Bottom-up planning to be adopted for optimal utility of resources and avoid duplication
• To improve the service delivery in core sectors
• To kindle and exploit the enormous community strength for development
• Awareness more critical than funds
• To make GP level Institutions more Accountable, Transparent and Responsive to People's needs
• To make Gram Sabha more vibrant

The Process

The concept of “ Grama Jothi” involved holistic development of Grama Panchyathi by preparing a perspective plan and monitoring and coordination plan, with a focus on provision of basic amenities such as roads, drains, sanitation, drinking water, street lights, generate wage employment and green the village through ‘Haritha Haram’ for a period of 4 to 5 years.
While the monitoring and coordination plan focuses on improved service delivery in the Health and nutrition, education, agriculture and animal husbandry sectors.

The perspective plan also focuses on livelihood, poverty and social security and welfare of the people especially with much emphasis on special development plan for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe in planning and providing basic amenities such as housing, income generating schemes to the socially disadvantaged people of SCs and STs, for with funds can be accessed under SCSP and TSP.
The concept was discussed during the Collector’s conference held on 30-07-2015 at Dr.MCR, HRD, which was addressed by the Hon’ble Chief Minister and one day workshop at Prof. Jayashanker Agriculture University with Collectors, SPs, CEOs, DPOs and Change agents.

The Outcome

The programme was organized throughout the State from 17-8-2015 to 24-08-2015. Under this process, perspective plans were prepared for 8695 Gram Panchyathis duly constituting 61043 functional committees with an identified 154896 goals and all the data is being uploaded in Grama Jyothi website. While perspective plans were prepared identifying the goals under different scheme that are being implemented by various departments of the State as follows:

Scheme	Total goals identified	Outlay proposed
Dirking water and sanitation
Health & Nutrition
Education
Social Security and poverty Reduction
Natural Resource Management
Agriculture
Infrastructure

Priorities

The main aim of the ‘Grma Jyothi’ programme was to empower gram panchayathis for holistic development of the panchyathis and achieving the following goals of the panchayathis with the funds available with them through the progamme.
•100% sanitation.
•100% tax collection.
•100% Telangana ku Haritha Haram implementation (40,000 plants for three years)
•100% immunization of children
•100% institutional deliveries
•100% identification and treatment of diseased persons in the village.
•100% literacy
•100% enrollment of children in school education and retention(Age 6-14 years)
•100% enrollment in preschools/ Nurseries/Anganwadis(Age 3-6 years)
•100% wage employment to all who are in need.
The grants available at each gram panchayathi in the preparation of development plan are as follows.

0-10 lakhs	8134
10-20 lakhs	301
20-50 lakhs	156
50- 1 cr	60
1-5 cr	29
5-10cr	5
Above 10cr	0

The scheme is aimed at comprehensive development of rural areas allowing planning and execution of works by villages themselves. For the successful implementation of the scheme, the state government has decided to invest 25000 crore rupees to empower villages.

The scheme will focus on improving the Human Development Index (HDI) by addressing core issues such as drinking water and sanitation, health and nutrition, education, infrastructure, natural resources management, agriculture, social security and poverty reduction.

The Grama Jyothi programme aims to empower gram panchayats. The programme introduces a participatory approach in preparing village development plans involving the panchayats, self help groups, people and all interested in the holistic development of the village.

Grama Jyothi programme will be a game-changer to inclusive and holistic development of backward villages of Telangana. The government will also incentivise villages that achieve 100 percent targets in the areas of sanitation, immunisation, nutrition, literacy and green cover.

Gram Panchayat Development Plan-Sample Allocation of Funds sheet

Plan Shall be prepared for Financial Year Wise i.e. 2015-16 & 2016-17

NREGA 2015-16 Year Plan Allready Approved and No Need Enter, 2016-17 Permissibe Works can be entered through EGS Plan

Funds shall be allocated Head wise available, Also Restrict works estimate amount in available Grant wise only after that Estimated and Remaining Amount wil be traced

Here is Sample Allocation of One Gram panchayat' - Figures of the Allocations to GPs to be entered in Total Amount Columns Year wise
after entry allocations - GP General Fund Total and Sector wise will available

S.No	Source Of Funds	Total Amount	Entered Amount	Remaining Amount		Total Amount in GP	1,29,24,578.00
1	Seignorage Grant	0				Total Estimated Cost
2	Profession Tax	803344				Remaining Amount	1,29,24,578.00
3	Own funds (Tax, Non-Taxes, Stamp Duty, Entertainment Tax, other receipts)	94806				Note: GP Funds = Per-Capita + Seignorage Grant + Profession Tax + Own funds (Tax, Non-Taxes, Stamp Duty, Entertainment Tax, other receipts) General Fund of GP_ Funds allocation not exceeding the limits
4	Per-Capita	22367				SALARIES	30	276155
	TOTAL GP GENERAL FUNDS	920517	0	920517		WORKS	20	184103
5	13th Finance Commission Grants	228631	0	228631		WATER SUPPLY	15	138078
6	14th Finance Commission Grant	1664020	0	1664020		SANITATION	15	138078
7	SFC Grant	188102	0	188102		STREET LIGHTS	15	138078
8	State Planning Grants	2868108	0	2868108		OFFICE EXPENDITURE	5	46026
9	NREGA	7055200	0	7055200			100	920517
		12924578		12924578

S.No	Source Of Funds	Total Amount	Entered Amount	Remaining Amount		Total Amount in GP	1,46,90,291
1	Seignorage Grant	0				Total Estimated Cost
2	Profession Tax	94806				Remaining Amount	1,46,90,291
3	Own funds (Tax, Non-Taxes, Stamp Duty, Entertainment Tax, other receipts)	843511				Note: GP Funds = Per-Capita + Seignorage Grant + Profession Tax + Own funds (Tax, Non-Taxes, Stamp Duty, Entertainment Tax, other receipts) General Fund of GP_ Funds allocation not exceeding the limits
4	Per-Capita	22367				SALARIES		30	288205
	TOTAL GP GENERAL FUNDS	960684	0	960684		WORKS		20	192137
5	14th Finance Commission Grant	2304753	0	2304753		WATER SUPPLY		15	144103
6	SFC Grant	188102	0	188102		SANITATION		15	144103
7	State Planning Grants	2868108	0	2868108		STREET LIGHTS		15	144103
8	NREGA	7407960	0	7407960		OFFICE EXPENDITURE		5	48034
		14690291	0	13729607				100	960684