Evaluation of Prominent/Major Schemes : Starred Question in Loksabha

Evaluation of Prominent/Major Schemes

(a) whether the Government has evaluated or proposes to do any evaluation of prominent/major schemes/programmes implemented in the country including Madhya Pradesh;
(b) if so, the details thereof, along with the funds allocated for various schemes/programmes during last three years;
(c) whether the funds allocated have been utilized properly; and
(d) if so, the details thereof and if not, the action taken by the Government in this regard?

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF PLANNING

LOK SABHA

STARRED QUESTION NO: 63                                                    ANSWERED ON: 07.02.2018

Evaluation of Prominent/Major Schemes

ANOOP MISHRA

Will the Minister of PLANNING be pleased to state:-

(a) whether the Government has evaluated or proposes to do any evaluation of prominent/major schemes/programmes implemented in the country including Madhya Pradesh;
(b) if so, the details thereof, along with the funds allocated for various schemes/programmes during last three years;
(c) whether the funds allocated have been utilized properly; and
(d) if so, the details thereof and if not, the action taken by the Government in this regard?


ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR MINISTRY OF PLANNING 
AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS & FERTILIZERS
(RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

(a) to (d) A statement is laid on the Table of the House.


STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) TO (d) OF LOKSABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *63 REGARDING EVALUATION OF PROMINENT/MAJOR SCHEMES BY SHRI ANOOP MISHRA TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.02.2018
(a) Ministries/Departments of Govt. of India conduct evaluation studies for their schemes/programmes. Arrangements are also in place for concurrent evaluation of GOI funded schemes by the Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, NITI Aayog. Besides this, in States, including Madhya Pradesh, the State evaluation offices conduct evaluations of the prominent schemes/programmes. Further, third party evaluation is required to be done for continuation of schemes from one period to another.
(b), (c) & (d) The funds are allocated in the Expenditure Budget to the different Ministries/Departments in a scheme-wise manner and the Ministries/Departments monitor the release and utilization of funds as per the specific scheme guidelines. Most of the ministries and departments are using the Direct Benefit Transfer platform for seamless and expeditious flow of benefits to the last mile beneficiaries. Details of the funds allocated and utilized for various Centrally Sponsored Schemes and Central Sector Schemes for the last three years are available at Statement 4A and Statement 4B of Expenditure Profile of the Budget documents 2017-18 and 2018-19 respectively. However, the overall expenditure profile of the Budget documents of the financial years 2015-16 (Actual), 2016-17 (Actual) and 2017-18 (RE) are as below:
Fund Allocation (In Rs Crores)
2015-16 (Actual) 2016-17 (Actual) 2017-18 (R.E.)
Central Sponsored Scheme (CSS) 203740.42 241295.55 285581.44
Central Sector Scheme (CS) 521373.98 589470.61 634318.08

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Source: Loksabha

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