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15th Finance Commission recommends grants to RLBs in 28 States

Published: Sep 21, 2020

By TIOLCORPLAWS News Service

NEW DELHI, SEPT 21, 2020: THE Fifteenth Finance Commission (XV FC) in its report for 2020-21 has recommended grants for Rural Local Bodies (RLBs) in 28 States. The grants have been recommended for all tiers of the Panchayati Raj and also to the Fifth and Sixth schedule areas. The grants are provided in two parts, namely, (i) Basic (Untied) Grants and (ii) Tied Grants in the ratio of 50:50. The basic grants are untied and can be used by RLBs for location-specific felt needs, except for salary or other establishment expenditure. The tied grants can be used for the basic services of (a) sanitation and maintenance of Open-Defecation Free (ODF) status and (b) supply of drinking water, rain water harvesting and water recycling. The RLBs shall, as far as possible, earmark one half of these Tied Grants each to these two critical services.  However, if any RLB has fully saturated the needs of one category, it can utilize the funds for the other category. The total size of the XV FC Grants allocation recommended is Rs 60,750 crore in 2020-21. Grants to RLBs are to be released in two equal installments.

XV FC Basic (Untied) Grants and Tied Grants of Rs 15187.50 crores each were released to the States by the Ministry of Finance on 17.6.2020 and 15.07.2020 respectively. State-wise allocations and release of the XV FC Grants is as per Annexure.

Annexure

State-wise allocations and release of Fifteenth Finance Commission (XV FC) Grants during F.Y. 2020-21

(Rs. in Crore)

Sl. No.
State

Allocation

for

2020-21

XV FC 1 st installments released by MoF
Total Release
Basic(Untied) Grants
Tied Grants

1

Andhra Pradesh

2625

656.25

656.25

1312.5

2

Arunachal Pradesh

231

57.75

57.75

115.5

3

Assam

1604

401

401

802

4

Bihar

5018

1254.5

1254.5

2509

5

Chhattisgarh

1454

363.5

363.5

727

6

Goa

75

18.75

18.75

37.5

7

Gujarat

3195

798.75

798.75

1597.5

8

Haryana

1264

316

316

632

9

Himachal Pradesh

429

107.25

107.25

214.5

10

Jharkhand

1689

422.25

422.25

844.5

11

Karnataka

3217

804.25

804.25

1608.5

12

Kerala

1628

407

407

814

13

Madhya Pradesh

3984

996

996

1992

14

Maharashtra

5827

1456.75

1456.75

2913.5

15

Manipur

177

44.25

44.25

88.5

16

Meghalaya

182

45.5

45.5

91

17

Mizoram

93

23.25

23.25

46.5

18

Nagaland

125

31.25

31.25

62.5

19

Odisha

2258

564.5

564.5

1129

20

Punjab

1388

347

347

694

21

Rajasthan

3862

965.5

965.5

1931

22

Sikkim

42

10.5

10.5

21

23

Tamil Nadu

3607

901.75

901.75

1803.5

24

Telangana

1847

461.75

461.75

923.5

25

Tripura

191

47.75

47.75

95.5

26

Uttar Pradesh

9752

2438

2438

4876

27

Uttarakhand

574

143.5

143.5

287

28

West Bengal

4412

1103

1103

2206

 

Total

60,750

15,187.5

15,187.5

30,375

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