Integrated District Planning Software

1. A software to strengthen planning at grass roots level

2. Objective • Facilitates the Decentralized Planning process in Local Language by • Converging the rural and urban plans to generate an integrated district plan • Supporting need/activity based planning rather than scheme-driven • capturing the planning work flow • Converging the flow of funds from different central and state sponsored schemes • Acting as a decision support tool through the use of supporting GIS and Graphs

3. Stakeholders • Urban Local Governments (Municipalities, Corporations etc.) • Rural Local Governments (Panchayats) • District-Level Line Departments • District Planning Committees (DPCs) • Central Government Departments • State Government Departments • Financial Institutions (NABARD, Banks) • Citizens

5. Planning Process – Requirement Specification • Captures Information on • Wish List, • Works (location, proposed cost, proposed duration, asset/beneficiary) • Projects

6. Planning Process – Resource Envelope Specification • Resources available under various central & state government schemes/programmes – State Government Departments • Own Funds – Plan Unit • Credit Plan – NABARD/Banks

7. Planning Process - Planning • Creating Annual Plan – Plan Unit • Allocating available resources to Prioritised works – Plan Unit

8. Annual Plan • An annual plan would consist of one or more works from one or more projects • The software automatically includes all works which have been created for the Plan Year and also includes spill-over, on-going and resumed works in the Plan. • Based on the sector of the work and that of the scheme, the software automatically shows the amount of expected allocation under different schemes. • The Planning unit can allocate funds from different schemes to different works • One work may be allocated funds from more than one scheme, thereby converging the funds of different schemes (if the schemes are for the same sector as that of the work or if the scheme has provision for untied funds)

11. Annual Plan (contd.) • Works may be included or excluded from the plan as per availability of funds • Priority can be set for each work; fund availability is automatically calculated • A higher tier (such as ZP or BP) may co-opt works of a lower tier unit • A Planning unit can create a work which is part of a supra project • The Planning unit would also have access to its development and planning profile through GIS maps and graphs • The Planning unit can view plans of other planning units within the same district; this would enable it to take more informed decision about its own plan • The software also informs the planner about fund availability under different schemes under different sectors thereby ensuring maximum utilization of funds

12. Planning Process – Technical Scrutiny • Scrutinize Plans submitted by Planning Units and offer comments on cost, duration and methodology – Technical Appraisal Committee

13. Technical and Administrative clearance • Once an optimal Plan has been prepared by a planning unit, it gets forwarded for technical and administrative clearance • If any work requires technical or administrative norm clearance, then it is evaluated • The Plan is returned back to the Planning Unit if any work requires modification to meet technical or administrative clearance (for eg., revision of cost estimates) • The Planning Unit must modify as per the clearance requirement and forward it back for clearance • If all works are cleared, the Plan is forwarded to DPC.

15. Planning Process – DPC Approval • Scrutinize Plans cleared by TAC and accord/endorse approval and integrate it with District Annual Plan - DPC

16. Plan Approval by DPC • The DPC can generate sectoral views of the Plan (to be reviewed by sectoral committees) and take decisions (approve, reject, review) on each work included in the Plan • The DPC can either approve a Plan (if all works are approved) or return the Plan to the planning unit for review/modification • The DPC can also take decisions on co-opted works and look at suggestions of planning units • The DPC would also have access to the development profile of the planning unit through various maps and graphs • The software also provides graphs to get visual view of the investment/allocation profile of the Plan

19. Planning Workflow in PlanPlus • Captures the plan unit and state-specific work flows as defined by the State Planning Department. • The Plan is routed to various stakeholders as per the defined workflow. • Versions of the workflow are maintained to ensure consistency in legacy plans.

20. Reports • Annual Plan of respective Plan Units • Integrated District Plan • History of the Plan as it goes through the cycle of revisions • Status of approval of different works • Expected Fund utilization • Sectoral Plan • Scheme Plan • Sectorwise Scheme plan and vice versa • Sectorwise BRGF allocation • Gap filling by BRGF

24. Analytical support using GIS • Census villages have already been mapped to the panchayats of all BRGF districts • Boundaries of Gram Panchayats in BRGF districts are now available • Census data can be overlaid on top of these maps and used to analyze the planning unit’s development profile • Work is going on for the remaining districts

25. Customizing PlanPlus • PlanPlus is a highly generic software making it easy to customize it to specific requirements • Based on Open source tools and technologies • Uses GIS technologies and Census data • Provides complete local language support in UNICODE • Captures the state-specific workflows as defined by the State Planning Department • Can be easily extended to facilitate the preparation of state and central government plans. • Is web-based but can be installed locally also

26. PlanPlus (Field-tested sites) Kerala • Chalissery GP • Sreekrishnapuram • Thiruvegapuram GP • Akathethara GP • Malambuzha BP • Thrithala BP • Chittur- Thathamangalam Municipality • Palakkad Municipality • Palakkad District Panchayat • West Bengal • Ghurisha GP • Banagram GP • Bolepur Sriniketan BP • Bhirbhum ZP • Suri Municipality Karnataka • Savalgi-B GP • Malkhed GP • Kadhechur GP • Mashal GP • Ainapur GP • Maddol GP • Avarat-B GP • Doranhalli GP • Hunasagi GP • Gulbarga BP • Afzalpur BP • Yadgir BP • Sedam BP • Chittapur Municipality Chattisgarh • Dhamtari GP • Rudri GP • Aamdi GP • Kurud GP • Kathauli GP • Anwari GP • Dhamtari BP • Kurud BP • Dhamtari ZP • Dhamtari Municipality

27. Positioning & Integrating PlanPlus in developmental Governance Budget Planning by Central Govt. States, Districts, ULBs, RLBs, Banks(Credit Plan) with proposed outcome COMPACT PLAN PLUS Funds Release under Development Schemes e-LEKHA EV Schemes Monitoring and Information Systems (NREGASoft, IAYSoft, Drinking Water,TSC, PMGSYOnLine, NRHM, SSA etc.) Monitoring Physical & Financial Progress

28. Thank You

35. Planning WorkFlow - Kerala Citizens/ NGOs/ Suggest CBOs / Needs/Expectations GramSabhas / Area Sabhas / Planning Units , Norms, Unstructured wish - list SORs Planning Unit Assign Prepare Annual Plan Formulate Projects ( ULBs & RLBs ) Works to Projects (Prioritization & (Sectoral Integration) source of funding) (Estimates,time, location etc) GP Boundaries, Census Database, Local resource database etc. Forward to TAC Integration with CSS/State Fund info, Technical Evaluate for Approval Committee Review All works approved? Technical Scrutiny/ (BTAC/DTAC/STAC) Sanction Yes Evaluate for Review All works approved? DPC Administrative Approval Approved Plan Yes PRI National Implementation Area Profiler Services Linkages Accounting Panchayat Monitoring ( ) PRIASoft Portal