Guidelines for Implementation of Member of Legislative Assembly Constituency Development Scheme 2016-17

What the document governs

The Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (SGS1) Department issued G.O. (Ms.) No. 79, dated 4 July 2016, to implement the Member of Legislative Assembly Constituency Development Scheme for 2016-17. The scheme allows Members of the Legislative Assembly to identify infrastructure gaps and propose essential works in rural and urban parts of their constituencies.

The Government provided Rs. 470 crore for the scheme and granted administrative sanction for that amount. An initial Rs. 117.50 crore, representing 25 per cent of the sanctioned amount, was released.

Constituency allocation

The guidelines allocate Rs. 2 crore per Assembly constituency:

• Rs. 1.10 crore is the tied component, which must be used for specified priority works.
• Rs. 90 lakh is the untied component, which may be used for works selected by the Member of the Legislative Assembly, provided they do not fall within the negative list.

Mandatory priority works

The tied component includes the following allocations:

• At least Rs. 25 lakh for infrastructure in Corporation, Municipality, Panchayat Union or Government schools. Eligible facilities include toilets, water supply, compound walls, classrooms, libraries and laboratories.
• At least Rs. 20 lakh for Anganwadi buildings, noon meal centres, kitchen sheds or kitchen modernisation. If these facilities are completed and no longer required, other tied works may be selected after obtaining the specified certificate.
• At least Rs. 15 lakh for water supply works, including augmentation of existing sources and individual or mini power pumps.
• Up to an overall ceiling of Rs. 50 lakh for one or more other listed tied works.

Other listed rural works

The rural works listed under the tied component include:

• Solar street lights and rooftop solar power in Government buildings.
• Upgrading or renewing roads and laying cement concrete roads.
• Buildings, rooms or compound walls for specified Government and local body institutions.
• Infrastructure for Government special schools and orphanages.
• Bridges, burial grounds and cremation grounds.
• Integrated sanitary complexes and Public Distribution shop buildings.
• Local body physical fitness centres or gymnasiums with equipment.
• Compound walls or fencing for burial grounds belonging to public Wakfs registered with the Wakf Board.

Who is involved

Implementation involves Members of the Legislative Assembly, the Director of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, District Collectors except Chennai, District Rural Development Agencies, the Corporation of Chennai, Town Panchayats and other listed Government authorities.