EMPOWERED COMMITTEE MEETINGDate: 13 February, 2014

Annual Action Plan of Chhattisgarh State

Rural livelihoods Mission (CG-SRLM)

(Financial Year 2014-15)

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Chhattisgarh at a Glance:

Total Area 1, 35,191 Sq. km

Total Division 5

No. of Districts 27

No. of tehsils 149 149

No. Of Blocks 146 146

No. of total Panchayats 9734

No. of total villages 19285

Total population (Census 2011) 2,55,40196

Total Population of Males 1,28,27,915

Total Population of Females 1,27,12,281

Sex ratio (No. of Females per thousand Males) 991

Total SC Population 24,12,336

Total ST Population 66,13,128

Total Rural population 1,66,21,000

Literacy rate 71.04% (Census 2011)

Population Below Poverty Line 47%, (1,20,03,892)

NRLM Target Household (80% of the Rural HH) 26,59,360

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Introduction

At present following no of districts & blocks

are covered by CGSRLM :

NRLP NRLM

RB

Coverage

RB IB

2013-14 4 12 1 10 district

17 blocks

Total 4 12 1

Arang, Simga, Tilda, Chhura,

Rajnandgaon, Manpur,

Dongargaon, Lakhanpur, Odgi,

Wadrafnagar, Ramchandrapur,

Balrampur, Bastar, Bastanar,

Bakawand, Makdi

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Coverage

At present following no of districts & blocks are covered by CGSRLM 2014-15:

AAP NRLP NRLM TOTAL Coverage

Intensive

Blocks

Blocks under

GOALS

Partnership

Blocks

Intensive

Blocks

2013-14 16 0 0 1 17 16 Districts

32 Blocks2014-15 1 03 10 1 15

Total 17 03 (Sukama,

Bijapur,

Narayanpur)

10 2 32

District Block District Block

Bastar Darbha, Tokapal

Kanker Bhanupratappur Balod Gunderdehi*

Dhamtari Nagari, Magarload RajnandGaon ChuiKhadan*

Raigad Raigad, Tamnar, Lailunga

Implementation Structure (SMMU)

CGSRLM Organogram/structure

State Mission Director

COO (Programme)

Account Officer

AdminOfficer

And

Support Staff

SMIB

State Project Managers

FI LH Skills M&E Procur HR&A

ASPM-IB

ASPM

FI

ASPM

LH

ASPMJobs

SD

Governing Body

Executive Committee

JMD (Operations)

FMSD

ASPMMIS

YP ASPMHR

ASPM

A/C

ASPMITYP / PE

(For NRLP District viz - Raipur, Gariaband, Baster, Rajnandgaon, Surguja & Balrampur)

Implementation Structure (DMMU)

District Mission Director(Ex officio - C.E.O. ZP)

District Mission Coordinator

FI SMIB HRT FM LH SD

Support Staff –

(Accountant, Office Assistant cum DEO, Peon)

MIS SD

Implementation Structure (BMMU)

(For 20+2 Blocks )

Block Mission Director

(Ex officio - C.E.O. JP)

Block Project Manager

Supporting

Staff

Area Coordinator

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Recruitment Status

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NRLP

UNITs2012-13 (Year 1)

Proposed but not

sanctionedTotal

PositionsRecruited

To be

recruitedApproved Recruited Vacant 2013-14 2014-15

SMMU 32 32 0 10 0 42 32 10

DMMU 36 36 0 42 21 99 36 63

BMMU 128 128 0 0 72 200 128 72

Total 196 196 0 52 93 341 196 145

Young

Professionals0 0 0 10 0 10 0 10

Total NRLP 196 196 0 62 93 351 196 155

NRLM

UNITS 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 Position RecruitedTo be

recruited

SMMU 0 0 5 5 0 5

DMMU 0 1 0 1 0 1

BMMU 0 5 20 25 0 25

Total 0 6 25 31 0 31

FI Consultant 0 18 0 18 0 18

Fitment Policy

Steps taken towards fitment of Government

Officials.

Draft document of Fitment Policy towards fitment of

Government Officials is ready.

Draft will be forwarded to be put-up for EC approval in next

meeting.

Whether it is being implemented?

It is planned to take 3 Govt. Officials (1DEO, 2ADEOs) in each.

Fitment Policy will be in place by Mar 2014.

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Setting up Offices:

Intensive Districts and Blocks

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Implementation Level

Approved No.

Implementation Started

Adequate Space for Office

Fully Furnished

Fully Equipped

Tally Instituted

MIS Instituted

SMMU 01 Yes No Yes Yes Yes In Place

DMMU06 04 Yes -04 Yes Yes Yes No

BMMU 16 16 16 Yes Yes No No

Review of Implementation: Physical Progress

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S.

N0.Particulars

NRLP NRLM Approved

in AAP FY-

13-14

Total

Achievement

– Jan'14Approved

in AAP

2013-14

Achievement

- Jan’14

Approved in

AAP 2013-14

Achievement

- Jan’14

1 No. of blocks where

intensive implementation

has started

16 16 01 01 17 17

2 No. of villages entered 320 127 119 86 439 213

3 No. of SHGs New formation

promoted/ revived/

strengthened

1600 2600 1220 1146 2820 5230

4 No. of SHGs provided RF 1400 2422 200 923 1600 3345

5 Amount of RF disbursed (in

Rs. Cr)2.10Cr 3.63Cr 0.30Cr 1.38Cr 2.40Cr 5.01Cr

6 No. of SHGs provided CIF 720 382 0 60 720 442

7 Amount of CIF disbursed (in

Rs. Cr)

3.60Cr 1.91Cr 0 0.30 Cr 0 2.21 Cr

8 No. of SHGs accessing bank

credit

2050 1221 800 113 2850 1334

9 Amount of bank credit

accessed (Rs. Cr)

223Cr

total state

target

7.60Cr -- 0.68Cr 223Cr 8.28Cr

Review of Implementation: Financial Progress

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S. N. Particulars

NRLP NRLMTotal As

Approve

d in AAP

2013-14

Total

Achievemen

t – Dec’13

Expected

Achieveme

nt –

March14

As

Approved

in AAP

2013-14

Achievemen

t- Dec’13

As

Approved

in AAP

2013-14

Achievemen

t- Dec ’13

1Institution & Human Capacity

Building - A

- - - - -

2 SMMU + DMMU – B18.64 1.90 (22%) 5.75 0.06 (1%) 14.39 1.96 (14%) 3.39(24%)

3Institution Building and

Capacity Building – B2

15.26 2.85 (19%) 18.10 16.96(94%) 33.36 19.81 (59%) 28.7 (86%)

4Community Investment

Support Fund – B3

5.86 2.27 (39%) 5.75 2.79 (49%) 11.61 5.06 (44%) 7.88 (68%)

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Special project initiatives –

Field implementation through

partnerships – B4

- - - - - - -

6 Innovation – C - - - - - - -

7 Implementation support - D 3.15 0.14 (5%) 3.15 0.14 (5%) 0.24 (8%)

8Marketing & Infrastructure –

E

11.40 4.32 (38%) 11.40 4.3 (38%) 6.05 (53%)

9 Interest Subvention - F 17.73 - 17.73 - -

10 RSETI - G 3.64 0.50 (14%) 3.64 .05 (14%) 0.70 (20%)

TOTAL 32.91 7.16 (22%) 62.38 24.63 (40% 95.17 31.8(33%) 47.6 (50%)

Review of Implementation: Financial Progress

Expected opening balance by end of March 2014: NRLM : Rs 1.64 Cr

NRLP : Rs 8.58 Cr

Expected expenditure till Mar 2014

NRLM : Rs 32.02 Cr

NRLP : Rs 12.53 Cr

Status of Procurement Plan (No. and values of items completed/ in progress/ dropped (Services))

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S.N Particulars Target Progress

1. Services 21 Completed - 01Under Progress- 03

Carried Forward - 04Dropped – 13

2 Goods 65 Completed - 50Under Progress – 05Carried Forward - 10

Review of Implementation: Roll out of Interest

Subvention

Interest Subvention budget received during 2013-14 (Category-II): Rs 17.73 Cr. & 2014-15: Rs.9.37 Cr

Calendar of activities related to disbursement of interest subvention to eligible groups.

During the year 2013-14 NMMU has allocated the Budget of Rs 17.33 Cr. for

interest subvention.

Quarterly Disbursement to SHG. Start from June14.

Strategy for creating awareness campaign.April 14 onwards awareness campaign on SHG financial literacy, about NRLM, Bank A/C opening, knowledge about various Govt. Schemes. Etc.

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Review of Implementation Progress

Compliance to the points mentioned in the previous EC minutes

1. Recruitment of Staff- 95% recruitment was done and balance will be recruited by

Feb 14. for the new sanctions during FY13-14 recruitment will be completed by 2nd

Qtr 14-15.

2. Community Operation Manual is adopted and need to be approved by State EC by

Mar14.

3. Development of SPIP is under progress it will be complete by Feb14.

4. HR, FM and Procurement manual are developed and need to be approved by Mar14.

5. 33000 SHG Data has been Digitized.

6. Skill & Placement- 9189 Youth are trained and 7033 got Placement.

Status of Submission of SGSY closure report

Audit report of FY 12-13 is received from all the 27 District.

Rs.28Cr recouped from Banks which is presently lying with DRDAs (the same shell

be submitted to SRLM with the format of Closure Reports)

Closure Report shell be submitted by the end of March14.

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Lessons Learned out of 1st Year of Implementation

Local Community people involvement brings positive result

Follow-up by community people.

Complete recruitment before Resource Block rollout.

Revolving fund to all the SHGs following Panchsutras.

Staff engagement in Resource Blocks is must.

Exclusive Setup for SMMU, DMMU and BMMU: At present DMMU

is operating under Zilla-Panchayats and BMMU is operating under Janpad.

It will be better to bring autonomy in DMMU, BMMU units.

Setup needs to be established separate office premises for DMMU

&BMMU.

Mission Implementation

Strategy

FY 2014-15

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Phasing Plan

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Phasing Plan 2013-14 to 2021-2022

Capacity Building Plan

New staff will be provided Induction trainings as per module as and when they recruited.

Strategy for Staff Capacity Building: NRO Support for providing Capacity Building trainings to Staff at various

levels CBA Support for providing Capacity Building to the Staff Developing Resource Pool State Level & District Level. Support of NMMU for SMMU & DMMU Staff trainings. Hiring of Resource Persons from other NGOs and Organizations.

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Total Number of

Staff

Status of Induction Timeline for Completion of

Induction

SMMU 32 Phase-I Completed May – 2014

DMMU 36 Phase -1 Completed May – 2014

BMMU 128 Phase-1 completed July – 2014

Contd…..

Strategy for Community Cadre Capacity Building: Capacity Building of Active Women by NRO and Capacity Building Agencies.

Development of Master trainers from Active Women @ 10 per cluster i.e 40 per Block.

Trainings by Internal Resource Pool at State Level & District Level.

Creating Resource pool with NGOs, Academies, Institutions, and Bankers etc.

Strategy for Community Institutions Capacity Building:

All BMMU Staff will act as a trainer for Community Institutions

Master Trainers will impart trainings to the Community Institutions.

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Contd……

Immersion

Bankers Organized Immersion for 31 bank officials of Resource Blocks, in NRO.

Exposure visit of 150 Bankers from Resource & Intensive Blocks will be organized during FY 14-15.

Other stakeholders Immersion for 40 field staff of Partner organization.

Immersion for 06 CEO, ZPs and 15 CEO, Blocks

Partnerships with CBA/SIRDs/NIRD /NRO/

Institutes/ Agencies Partnering with SERP, NRO for capacity building support of SRLM Staff,

Community Cadre.

Proposed to partner with Capacity Building Agencies for providing capacity building trainings. 21

TIMELINE FOR COMPLETION OF KEY ACTIVITIES

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SN List of Key Activities Timelines

1 Recruitment of Approved Position 1st & 3rd Quarter.

2 Approval of HR Manual March14

3 Fitment Process 1st Quarter.

4 Induction & Immersion 3rd Quarter

5 MDP 1st & 3rd Quarter.

6 Baseline (In Process) June 14

7 Process Monitoring (In Process) June 14

8 Developing MIS Strategy Note March 14

9 Establishment of MIS Data Centers in Blocks April/July 14

10 Placing of Software & Tablets to VO July/Aug14

11 Internal CRP Positioning Aug/Sept14

12 MOU with SERP for new RB- 5(3+1+1) May 14

13 MOU with SERP for Intensive Block Capacity Building May 14

14 Partnership with Pradan and Home Grown Models June14

Strategy for Resource Blocks

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Qualitativeo Partnership with SERP, NRO for implementation of Resource Block Strategy.

o Formation and Strengthening of New Groups, Revival of Old groups by Ext.

CRPs.

o Formation and Strengthening of village organization by Sr. CRPs.

o Handholding & training support to the DMMU / BMMU staff by PRPs

o Development Community Cadre, Int. CRP.

o Capacity Building to the Active Women, Community Cadre and SRLM Staff

o Sensitization of Bankers by organizing exposure visit in NRO

PhysicaloDuring FY 13-14 - 04 Blocks under NRLP and 01 Block under NRLM.

oDuring FY 14-15, NRO will continue support in existing 04 RBs under NRLP and

01 RB under NRLM.

oDuring FY 14-15 – NRO will extend support for implementing RB Strategy in New

Blocks - 04 Blocks under NRLP and 01 Block 5(3+1+1) under NRLM

Strategy for Intensive Blocks

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Qualitative1. MoU with SERP, NRO & Capacity Building Agency for Capacity Building of Staff,

Community Cadre.

2. Developing ToTs from SRLM Staff & Community Cadre.

3. Development Resource Pool from Staff of SRLM and also with the Resource

Persons from external Agencies.

4. Active Women training by SRLM staff on Social Mobilization, Book Keeping &

MCP Processes.

5. Organizing exposure visits of active women to Resource Blocks

6. Internal CRP Strategy – from Aug / Sept 2014.

Physical During FY 14-15 the programme is being implemented in 11 Blocks under

NRLP

Strategy for Partnerships Blocks

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Qualitative1. Partnering with PRADAN NGO for implementation of NRLM in 08 Blocks in 4

Districts (3 Blocks from existing 2 districts and 5 blocks from new districts)

2. Partnership with Local NGOs for implementation of NRLM in 2 blocks in 2 Districts

(1 Block from existing district and one block from new district)

3. Partner organization will establish Mission Facilitation Team (MFT) in each Block.

4. SRLM support the Partner organization for convergence with line departments and

Banks.

Physical 1. 08 Blocks under Partnership with PRADAN

2. 02 Block under Partnership with local NGOs (Maabamaleswari, Janhithakarini)

Action Pilots (if any)

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Status of 2013-14 Pilots

No pilots were initiated during 13-14

New Pilots

Bonded Labour pilot in Kondagoan and Bastar Blocks

Partnering with International Justice Mission to implement the pilot in these two blocks.

SRLM is proposed to initiate social mobilization process in Kondagoan block as Bastar block already covered under RB Strategy.

Non Intensive Strategy

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Implementation Strategy

State level Support unit at SMMU.

This will be responsible for initiating Capacity building, financial inclusion and MIS activities in Non Intensive Districts/ Blocks.

The existing staff of RD Dept. Chhattisgarh will be selected through fitment policy and will be positioned in non intensive blocks to implement the program.

Position of FI Consultants in non-intensive areas to ensure RF and Bank Linkages.

District and block level staff for non-intensive :

The designated staff from existing Zila Panchayat & Janpad Panchayat Structure i.e the ADEOs & DEOs will be responsible for delivering the work in non-intensive blocks.

Key Activities proposed:

Capacity Building of existing JP staff (APOs, ADEOs & DEOs) on NRLM Concept.

Capacity building of identified Active Women from existing SHGs.

RF/ Bank Linkage activities of the Blocks.

Strengthening of existing SHGs by providing capacity building on Book Keeping, Panch Sutra, etc.

Organizing exposure visits to RBs(maximum twice a year) for Designated Field staff (APOs, ADEOs & DEOs), SHGs, identified Active Women from existing SHGs.etc.

Strategy for SHG-Bank Credit Mobilization

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Strategy for Bank Credit Mobilization1. Sensitization of Senior Bank Officers: 10 Sr. Bankers given exposure and Exposure

for 60 Bankers is planned in FY 14-152. Sensitization of Bank branch managers and nodal officers: 22 BM given exposure .

Planned 5 Exposure Visits is planned.

3. Strengthening of community cadres- Bank Mitras : 152 is already in place and 334 Bank Mitra is planned.

Target for Bank Credit Mobilization No of SHGs targeted for Bank Linkage- 6396.

Total Amount of Bank Linkage- 51.16Cr

Preparation of Directory/ Inventory of SHGs

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Status1. 86000 SHGs were reported and during digitization stock of 50,000 SHG

were collected (Re-verification is in progress).

2.Till now 33000 SHGs data is Digitized.

3.SHG Validation confirmation is done by 19 District.

Plan for completion1. By March 2014 remaining data of SHG will be Digitized.

2. SHG Validation from remaining district will be obtained by March 14.

SYSTEMS

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Manual Human Resource : HR Manual by March 14 Financial Management : Financial Management Manual by 1st Quarter. Procurement : NRLM Procurement Manual is adopted as it is mandatory and

followed/ communicated to all DMMUs & BMMUs.

Adoption of Community Operational Manual (COM) COM is developed and it needs to be approved by State-EC.

MIS and M&E – including setting up ICT at SMMU/ DMMU/BMMU 16 MIS Centers at 16BMMU/ 6DMMU will be in place in FY 14-15 .

FMTSA FMTSA – Agency will be in place by 1st Quarter. Audit (internal and system) Statutory (External) audit is done at District & State level. System for internal shell be placed from FY 14-15.

Procurement Procurement manual developed by NMMU, MoRD is being adopted and used by

CGSRLM.

Orientation on Procurement manual is given to DMMU & BMMU staff.

A regular follow-up is being done for a proper utilization of procurement manual at DMMU & BMMU level.

Community Procurement Manual draft preparation is in progress.

Governance and accountability The CGSRLM is accountable towards transparency and accountability in the

implementation of a policies and intervention to the public. Also making them aware of the entitlements that they have access to under the specific Government scheme/intervention.

Development of Citizen Charter: It will be developed by CGSRLM it defines the obligations, duties and responsibilities of the mission setups in the implementation of the NRLM in the state. It broadly lists the following: Objectives and key activities performed in the RL Division

Structure of the mission in the state and the responsibilities amongst the various personnel

Grievance Redress Procedure

Service Standards adhered to by the Division

Communication, Consultant will be hired.

Half Yearly New Letter Publication is Planned .

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Estimated Budgets (FY 2014-15)

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NRLM Budget Summary (Figures in Rs. Crores)NRLM Intensive Strategy Non-Intensive Strategy Total Budget

Central Share

State Share

Central Share State Share

IBCB 1.61 0.54 8.13 2.71 12.99

Community Fund (RF/CIF) 2.51 0.84 6.0 2.0 11.35

Administrative Costs 0.00 0.00 0.75 0.25 1.00

Marketing & Infrastructure 0.00 0.00 0.19 0.06 .25

Total 4.12 1.38

15.06 5.02 25.58

Interest subvention IAP Districts Non-IAP Districts

4.80 1.60 2.25 0.75 9.40

RSETI, Saras/ village haat, etc) 1.61

0.00 1.61

MKSP (if applicable) 13.50 0.00 13.50

Estimated Budgets (FY 2014-15)

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NRLP Budget Summary (Figures in Rs. Crores)

NRLP Year2014-15

Central Share (75%)

State Share (25%)

Technical Assistance- A - - -

SMMU + DMMU – B1 17.29 12.97 4.32

Institution Building and Capacity Building – B2 26.38 19.79 6.60

Community Investment Support Fund/Revolving Fund – B3 36.45 27.34 9.11

Special project initiatives (Field partnerships)– B4 3.75 2.82 0.94

Innovations & Partnerships (C) 0.60 0.45 0.15

Project Management (D) 2.31 1.73 0.58

Total 86.79 65.09 21.70

Procurement Plan for FY 2014-15

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NRLP Procurement :

SN Activities Nos. Estimated Costs

1 Goods 33 667.13

2 Consultancies /Services 19 358.80

Total 52 1,025.93

NRLM Procurement :

SN Activities Nos. Estimated Costs

1 Goods 03 39.71

2 Consultancies /Services 01 216.00

Total 04 255.71

Key Implementation Issues

CIF Disbursement to existing SHGs/ VOs.

Positioning of 100% staffs in tribal areas.

Rollout plan of CPSMS

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Supports Required from NMMU/NRLPS

Support from State Anchor Persons and Thematic Units State Anchor persons support is very much required to develop and execute SM & IB,

HR, FM, FI and Procurement systems.

To provide technical assistant on hiring / recruiting staff for programme implementation

To develop modules, strategies for smooth implementation of the activities.

To impart trainings to the Staff of SMMU and DMMU and also to support for imparting trainings to the BMMU and Community cadre.

To support the SRLM for developing training modules, flipcharts, training material etc.

Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Guidance in progression of SPIP process of the state.

Designing comprehensive M & E and MIS system on eNRLM platform for concurrent monitoring field progress.

Setting up of system for collecting electronic and manual Database collection from community Institutions.

Guidance in progression of Process Monitoring and Baseline Study of Intensive & Non-intensive Blocks.

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Procurement Procurement workshop for State & district team members.

Support for developing different Thematic ToRs of various Researches, Studies & Survey etc.

Implementation Support Mission. Development of IEC material.

Value chain analysis of NTFP commodities

Implementation of CPSMS in Chhattisgarh State – Workshop / Training required

Inputs for finalization of Financial Manual.

Other support: The support of the state Anchor person is required to assess

the partner organizations, to identify the capacity building agencies for IB & CB, to monitor and asses the work done in the partner blocks, to address the convergence meetings with higher level officials at state level, to execute partnerships with NRO etc.

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Supports Required – NROs & Other SRLMs

NROs Implementation of RB strategy in Existing and New Blocks.

Capacity Building Support for staffs and community cadres.

Exposure and immersion Programs.

Sensitization of Bankers.

Other SRLMs jointly Conducting orientation of staffs.

Cross Learning's

Immersion & Exposure Visits.

Field assessment of partnership blocks.

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Issues in Appraisal/ Comments

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The AAP is complete with all the attachments.

Estimates are as per the last years unit cost. This could be revised after new unit cost approval.

State could achieve the 60% financial progress in the FY13-14, But The team needs more clarity and Capacities . For which A COO is very essential to lead the Thematic and provide guidance in the implementation of the plan.

Block Processes which they proposed have evolved from the RB implementation. But Phasing plan will be possible only if the state achieve Int.CRP by next FY.

CGSRLM needs strong support and in strengthening the systems like Finance, HR & Admin, procurement and MIS. They should develop more clear plan for the systems related Activities.

SGSY closures report and District level audit reports will be submitted soon.

Thank you

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