User:Aravind V R/Glossary


 * The Backward Regions Grant Fund is designed to redress regional imbalances in development. The fund will provide financial resources for supplementing and converging existing developmental inflows into 250 identified districts, so as 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
 * Provide professional support to local bodies for planning, implementation and monitoring their plans Improve the performance and delivery of critical functions assigned to Panchayats
 * counter possible efficiency and equity losses on account of inadequate local capacity