G.O. (Ms.) No.107, Mission Antyodaya State Level Steering Committee, 2018

What the government order does

G.O. (Ms.) No.107 of the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (CGS-2) Department, dated 1 August 2018, creates a State Level Steering Committee headed by the Chief Secretary to Government of Tamil Nadu. The committee is responsible for guiding and monitoring Mission Antyodaya in 2,509 Village Panchayats selected by District Collectors across Tamil Nadu.

Mission Antyodaya is described as a Central and State partnership programme addressing different dimensions of poverty through coordinated government schemes, shared infrastructure and resources, and strategies based on household deprivation.

Who is involved

The State Level Steering Committee brings together senior officials and organisations involved in rural development and related services. Its composition includes:

• The Chief Secretary to Government of Tamil Nadu as Chairperson.
• The Additional Chief Secretary to Government, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department, as Member Secretary.
• The Director of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj as Convenor.
• Senior officials from Agriculture, Finance, Revenue and Disaster Management, Planning and Development, Health and Family Welfare, School Education, Social Welfare, Environment and Forests, and other listed departments.
• The managing directors of the Tamil Nadu Water and Drainage Board and the Tamil Nadu State Rural Livelihoods Mission.
• The Director of the State Institute of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj.
• Any other departmental secretary or head approved by the Chairperson.

Main responsibilities

The State Level Steering Committee is authorised to:

• Prepare government orders or resolutions setting out implementation processes.
• Ensure coordination between departments at all levels.
• Issue instructions for combining schemes, resources, staff and technical support.
• Resolve field issues, identify bottlenecks and make mid-course corrections.
• Coordinate with the national level committee.
• Monitor and steer the entire Mission Antyodaya process.
• Decide the resource envelope available to Village Panchayats or clusters and communicate it to each Village Panchayat through a government order and an appropriate Management Information System.

The resource envelope must cover identified central and state grants and schemes, Village Panchayat own-source revenue projections, voluntary contributions, and assured corporate social responsibility funds where available.

Relevance to property and land matters

G.O. (Ms.) No.107 does not create land ownership rules, change land classifications, regulate property transfers or prescribe land-related fees. Its focus is administrative coordination and funding for poverty reduction in selected Village Panchayats, although the programme may coordinate rural infrastructure and other government schemes in those areas.