THE 5th ESTATE (Electronic Bulletin)

The present newsletter ‘The 5^th Estate’ is an electronic newsletter on our Project ‘Promoting State Accountability and Citizen’s Empowerment through Budget Analysis’ which is being implemented in Rajasthan, a state in Northwest India. The project primarily aims to analyse budgetary provisions and achievements of targets of programmes and schemes meant for target groups namely Women, Marginal Farmers and Landless Labourers.
The title ‘The 5^th Estate’ has been derived from the definition of democracy, where the 5^th Estate denotes the people, on whom its other four pillars rest: the Legislature, the Judiciary, the Executive and the Media.
In other words it means that ‘The State derives its rights from the power of the people’. The purpose of this bulletin is to provide regular update on the activities taken as part of the project.
It has been decided to feature select schemes from this bulletin onwards. The first of the series, was published in our October Bulletin and focussed on schemes for women. The present issue is in continuation of the earlier issue focused on schemes related to Employment Generation, being implemented by the Government of Rajasthan.
The Scheme: JAWAHAR GRAM SAMRIDHI YOJANA

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Back ground:

Government of India launched ‘Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana` (JGSY) in the year 1999 in place of an earlier scheme titled ‘Jawahar Rojgar Yojana`. The scheme is funded by the Central government and the State government on a sharing basis of 75:25, respectively.

The scheme aims at developing infrastructural facilities in the Rural Areas according to the needs of the people thereby generating employment opportunities in rural areas for the lively hood of Below Poverty Line groups.

Out of the works, which could be executed by the Gram Panchayat under this scheme, the following works should be given priority:

Infrastructure development for the persons belonging to Scheduled castes and Scheduled Tribes population
Infrastructure required for Swaran Jayanti Gram Swa-Rojgar Yojana.
Infrastructure required for agricultural activities.
Infrastructure for education, health, roads and other social, economic and physical community.

Financial targets and achievements:

The position of estimated receipts, actual receipts and expenditure was studied, which is as follows:

(Rs. in Crore)

S.No.	Year	Estimated Receipts			Actual Receipts			Expenditure	Short-fall/Excess (%)
S.No.	Year	Central	State	Total	Central	State	Total	Expenditure	Short-fall/Excess (%)
1.	1996-97	73.17	18.29	91.46	73.25	18.32	91.57	71.12	-20.45 (22.33)
2.	1997-98	81.76	20.44	102.20	83.52	20.88	104.40	104.76	+ 0.36 (100.35)
3.	1998-99	67.11	16.78	83.89	60.09	15.02	75.11	97.81	+22.70 (130.22)
4.	1999-2000	53.44	17.81	71.25	53.44	17.81	71.25	81.50	+10.25 (114.38)
5.	2000-2001	50.05	16.68	66.73	47.82	15.94	63.75	99.46	+35.71 (148.98)
6.	2001-2002 (Upto Jan.)	56.89	18.96	75.85	56.89	18.96	75.85	65.14	-10.71 (14.11)
	TOTAL	382.42	108.96	491.38	375.01	106.93	481.93	519.79	+37.86 (107.86)

Physical targets and achievements:

.NO.	YEAR	UNIT (MAN-DAYS)	TARGET	ACHIEVEMENT	SHORT-FALL EXCESS (+)	PERCENT- AGE
1.	1996-97		NOT	AVAILABLE
2.	1997-98	No. in lakh	182.03	199.14	+9.40	27.08
3.	1998-99	No. in lakh	149.43	148.30	1.13	0.76
4.	1999-2000	No. in lakh	97.16	105.06	+ 7.90	108.13
5.	2000-2001	No. in lakh	NOT FIXED	96.71	-	-
6.	2001.2002 (upto Jan.02)	No. in lakh	NOT FIXED	54.69	-	-

The figures are based on the Annual Progress Report of the Rural Development Department, Rajasthan, Jaipur and Annual Plan Review of the concerning years.

Observations:

During VIIIth Five Year Plan period against the target of 1603.92 lakh man-days generation, 1625.72 lakh man-days were generated with the expenditure of Rs.510.00 crore.
From the above table it would appear that financial targets fixed during the years 1996-97 to 2000-2001 were achieved fully except year 1996-97 wherein Rs.20.45 crore could not be utilised which formed 22.33 percent of the amount allotted during this year. The shortfall during 2001-2002 (upto Jan.02) is not for complete financial year, unless the expenditure figures for whole of the financial year is available it can not be commented.
However, during the period of above six years net excess expenditure incurred was Rs.37.86 crore, as such financial achievements were more than the targets fixed.
Regarding physical targets, it would appear from the above table that during 1997-98 and 1999-2000 the achievement was more than the target fixed, in both these years 9.40 lakh and 7.90 lakh man-days were generated more than the target fixed, respectively.
However, during 1998-99 the shortfall was 1.13 lakh man-days (0.76 per cent), which is insignificant.
As targets were not fixed for 2000-2001and 2001-2002, hence, shortfall could not be worked out for these years.