State Act

Jharkhand Panchayat Raj Act, 2001_English

Section 127 Functions of the Committee - The District Planning Committee shall perform the following functions:- (a) Identification of local needs and objectives within the perspective of national and state goal; (b) Collection, compilation and updating of statistics of the natural and human resources of the district so that preparation of a decentralized plan on the basis of solid data base and preparing a blueprint of the resources of the district and blocks may be facilitated; (c) Tabulation and mapping of the facilities available at village, block and district levels; (d) Policy - making and fixing of programmes and priorities for rational exploitation, use and development of the natural and human resources available in the district; (e) Preparing blueprints of five year and annual plans for the district, consolidating the plans prepared by the Panchayat and the municipal bodies and assigning the same to the state government for inclusion in the state - plan; (f) Preparing employment scheme for the district; (g) Estimating financial resources for funding the district plan ; (h) Making provision for funding of regional and sub - regional plans under the blue print of the comprehensive district development plan; (i) Persuasion, evaluation and review of plans of the central domain, centre sponsored plan, plan of the State domain and the local area development schemes funded by a Member of Parliament and a Legislator in the district; (j) Submission of progress reports of the plans within the district to the State Government; (k) Ensuring cooperation of non government organisations in the process of all around development of the district; (l) Identifying plans and programmes relating to institutional finance and tagging them with the district development plan and providing necessary financial support; (m) Advising the State Government regarding the important plans of the State domain in the process of the overall development of the district; (n) Other functions assigned by the State Government, besides this.