Centrally sponsored schemes: what should we do to make them more effective
By: Jha, Nikhilesh.
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ArticlePublisher: 2001Description: p.1-21.Subject(s): Intergovernmental relations | Economic and social development
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Management in GovernmentSummary: Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) are the schemes sponsored by Centre, either fully or partially, in areas which are covered by the State List given subjects in the Constitution. These schemes are implemented by states or their agencies, irrespective of their pattern of financing. The Group of Officials set up by the Committee of the NDC to examine the Centrally Sponsored Schemes in 1987 felt that the definition of CSS should cover all schemes fully or partially funded by the Centre and implemented by the states of state agencies except those which fell in the Centre's sphere of responsibility, i.e., in the Union List. The genesis of these schemes may be traced to the system of centralised economic planning started in 1952 which invariably resulted in the Centre taking a proactive role in the formulation of development programmes falling in the State List of subjects such as rural development, social welfare, health and family welfare, area development, etc. The other reasons for taking up these schemes were, general scarcity of resources as well as technical expertise with the states in the early 1950s and also the need of initiative and leadership which could be provided only by the Central Government in the fifties and sixties. In the changed equation of the Centre and States today, where one would have expected the strength of the CSSs to go down, the share of the CSSs in the plan budget of the Central Ministries/Departments has considerably increased. The states do not grudge encroachment in the subjects of their areas because a substantive part of funding for social sector in many states is provided by the Centrally Sponsored Schemes. The Centrally Sponsored Schemes are different from Central Schemes which are the schemes/projects implemented directly by the Ministries/Departments of Central Government. - Reproduced.
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Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) are the schemes sponsored by Centre, either fully or partially, in areas which are covered by the State List given subjects in the Constitution. These schemes are implemented by states or their agencies, irrespective of their pattern of financing. The Group of Officials set up by the Committee of the NDC to examine the Centrally Sponsored Schemes in 1987 felt that the definition of CSS should cover all schemes fully or partially funded by the Centre and implemented by the states of state agencies except those which fell in the Centre's sphere of responsibility, i.e., in the Union List. The genesis of these schemes may be traced to the system of centralised economic planning started in 1952 which invariably resulted in the Centre taking a proactive role in the formulation of development programmes falling in the State List of subjects such as rural development, social welfare, health and family welfare, area development, etc. The other reasons for taking up these schemes were, general scarcity of resources as well as technical expertise with the states in the early 1950s and also the need of initiative and leadership which could be provided only by the Central Government in the fifties and sixties. In the changed equation of the Centre and States today, where one would have expected the strength of the CSSs to go down, the share of the CSSs in the plan budget of the Central Ministries/Departments has considerably increased. The states do not grudge encroachment in the subjects of their areas because a substantive part of funding for social sector in many states is provided by the Centrally Sponsored Schemes. The Centrally Sponsored Schemes are different from Central Schemes which are the schemes/projects implemented directly by the Ministries/Departments of Central Government. - Reproduced.
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