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The Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF), launched by the Indian Prime Minister at Barpeta in Assam on February 19, 2007, signified a new approach in addressing persistent regional imbalances of development in India. The programme subsumed the ''Rashtriya Sama Vikas Yojana'' (RSVY), a plan previously administered by the Indian Planning Commission. The BRGF Programme covers 250 districts in 27 states, of which 232 districts fall under the purview of Parts IX and IX-A of the Indian Constitution dealing with the Panchayats and the Municipalities, respectively. The remaining 18 districts are covered by other local government structures, such as Autonomous District and Regional Councils under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution and state specific arrangements as in the case of Nagaland and the hill areas of Manipur. ==Objectives== The Backward Regions Grant Fund is designed to redress regional imbalances in development by way of providing financial resources for supplementing and converging existing developmental inflows into the identified backward districts, to: *Bridge critical gaps in local infrastructure and other development requirements that are not being adequately met through existing inflows, *Strengthen, to this end, Panchayat and Municipality level governance with more appropriate capacity building, to facilitate participatory planning, decision making, implementation and monitoring, to reflect local felt needs, *Provides professional support to local bodies for planning, implementation and monitoring their plans, *Improve the performance and delivery of critical functions assigned to Panchayats, and counter possible efficiency and equity losses on account of inadequate local capacity. The BRGF programme represents a major shift in approach, moving away from top-down plans to more participative plans prepared from the grassroots level upwards. The guidelines of the programme entrust the central role in planning and implementation of the programme to Panchayats in rural areas, municipalities in urban areas and District Planning Committees at the district level constituted in accordance with Article 243 ZD of the Constitution to consolidate the plans of the Panchayats and Municipalities into the draft district plan. Special provisions have been made in the guidelines for those districts in J&K, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura, which do not have Panchayats, where village level bodies and institutions mandated under other frameworks such as the Sixth Schedule are to plan and implement the programme. The conviction that drives this new locally driven approach is that grassroots level democratic institutions know best the dimensions of poverty in their areas and are, therefore, best placed to undertake individually small, but overall, significant local interventions to sustainably tackle local poverty alleviation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Backward Regions Grant Fund」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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