The funds are meant for each the 5,949 eligible gram panchayats successful the state, it added. (File)
The Centre has released the archetypal instalment of the 15th Finance Commission grants for FY 2024-25 to the agrarian section bodies (RLBs) successful Karnataka, the Union Panchayati Raj Ministry said successful a statement.
The funds are meant for each the 5,949 eligible gram panchayats successful the state, it added.
“The Government of India done the Ministry of Panchayati Raj and Ministry of Jal Shakti recommends the merchandise of XV-FC grants to the Rural Local Bodies which are past released by the Ministry of Finance. The allocated grants are recommended and released successful 2 installments successful a fiscal year,” the connection said.
The grants volition beryllium utilised by the RLBs for location-specific requirements nether the 29 subjects enshrined successful the 11th Schedule of the Constitution, but for salaries and different constitution costs, it added.
The grants tin beryllium utilized for the basal services of (a) sanitation and attraction of ODF status, and this should see absorption and attraction of household waste, and quality excreta and fecal sludge absorption successful peculiar and (b) proviso of drinking water, rainwater harvesting and h2o recycling, the connection read.
It added that the Government of India is taking beardown steps to fortify agrarian self-governance by providing the 15th Finance Commission grants to the panchayati raj institutions and agrarian section bodies.