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12.1 State Planning Board
The primary objective of the State Planning Board is to prepare the Five Year Plans and annual plans of Govt. of Madhya Pradesh. In addition to this the board is also monitoring the sanction of the projects to be implemented under the State Government costing more than Rs. 250 lakhs and has taken up the implementation and supervision of the schemes viz. the MLA’s Area Development Schemes and Jan Bhagidari Yojna. Under the MLA's Area Development Schemes every MLA can recommend to the District Collector, small works not exceeding a total cost of Rs. 40 lakhs in the course of one year. The scheme is being implemented under the overall supervision of the State Planning Board as in the case of MPs Area Development Scheme under Jan Bhagidari Yojana. The small development works in the district are carried out with 50% and 75% share of funds from the State in normal and scheduled areas respectively.
Achievements during the Ninth Plan
For the Ninth Five Year Plan the plan provision was Rs. 300.00 crores. During 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 expenditure amounting to Rs. 63.79 crore, Rs. 64.09 crore, Rs. 64.05 and Rs. 56.00 crore was incurred respectively and during the year 2001-2002 the anticipated expenditure is Rs. 294.13 crore.
Under the MLA's Area Development Schemes 6412, 7593, 6161 and 6266 construction works were sanctioned during the year 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 respectively and during 2001-2002, total 2341 works have been sanctioned.
Tenth Five Year Plan and Annual Plan 2002-03
In the Tenth Plan the provision of Rs. 46,200 lakhs has been made for MLA’s Area Development Scheme. This includes the provision for 231 MLA’s constituency at the rate of Rs. 40 lakhs for each constituency. Under Jan Bhagidari Yojna the provision of Rs. 20,299 lakhs has been made to cater the needs of small development works in the district to be carried out with 50% and 75% share of funds from the state in normal and scheduled areas respectively. Apart from this the provision of Rs. 254 lakhs has been made for strengthening the district offices under the Planning Board.
For the Annual Plan 2002-2003 the total provision of Rs. 9240 lakhs has been made for the MLA’s Area Development Scheme, provision of Rs. 4000 has been made for Jan Bhagidari Yojna and provision of Rs. 50.00 lakhs has been made for strengthening the district offices of the board.
No physical targets can be proposed but on an average 11,000 works are sanctioned every year.
12.2 Statistics
The Directorate of Economic and Statistics is the nodal agency for development of an efficient statistical machinery both at state and district level for collection compilation, analysis and interpretation of primary and secondary data base for planners and administrators.
Achievements during the Ninth Plan
For the Ninth Plan the provision was Rs. 2.34 crores. During 1997-98, 1998-99, 1990-2000 and 2000-2001 expenditure amounting to Rs. 4.97, 3.34, 4.06 and 4.76 was incurred respectively and during the year 2001-02 the anticipated expenditure is Rs. 57.13 lakh.
Tenth Five Year Plan and Annual Plan 2002-2003
Training being an agent for quality improvement the provision of Rs. 10.00 lakhs for the Tenth Plan and Rs. 2.00 lakhs for the Annual Plan 2002-2003 has been made for the training of statistical personnel. Effective implementation of registration birth and death according to registration of Birth and Death Act 1969 is very important activity. Provisions of Rs. 117 lakhs for the Tenth Plan and Rs. 23.00 lakhs for the Annual Plan 2002-03 has been made. In the context of the formation of three tier system of Panchayati Raj Institution, it has been felt necessary to develop village level information system to serve as back-up material for preparation of district plan proposals and other needs. Village level information will be collected from Gram Panchayats every year. Besides small area surveys of topical relevance will also be conducted particularly to facilitate the plan discussions. An outlay of Rs. 25.00 lakhs is proposed for the Tenth Plan and Rs. 5.0 lakh for the Annual Plan 2002-03 for this purpose.
During the Tenth Plan the total proposed outlay is Rs 174.50 lakhs and for the Annual Plan 2002-2003 is Rs.34.50 lakhs.
12.3 Tourism
The State of Madhya Pradesh offers a variety of tourist attraction ranging from sculpture to wild life and hence it is comparable to any top tourist region of the country. As an industry tourism has a great potentiality for earning foreign exchange and also creating employment opportunities. Based on this realisation the tourism has been marked as a priority sector for the Tenth Five Year Plan. In the state the MPSTDC was set up with the objective to provide lodging catering transport facilities to nation as well as international tourists. The corporation was expected to provide information regarding tourism and organise adventure and water sports for the tourists. It was also entrusted with the responsibilities to develop new areas having tourism potential. The MPSTDC has over the years tried to provide basic infrastructure and tourist facilities in such areas of tourist importance where the presence of private sector is negligible or non existed.
Achievements during the Ninth Plan
For the Ninth Plan the Plan provision was Rs. 1472.00 crores. The expenditure incurred in 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 is Rs. 303.10 lakhs, Rs. 12.53 lakhs, Rs. 243.19 lakhs, Rs. 396.08 lakhs respectively. The expected expenditure during 2001-2002 is Rs. 2200 lakhs.
Tenth Five Year Plan and Annual Plan 2002-2003.
The important provisions kept in Tenth Plan for development of tourism sector are as follows:-
At present only 15 major places are identified for tourism development. It is planned to develop atleast one good tourist spot in each district. An amount of Rs. 30.00 lakhs has been proposed for this purpose.
In the present age promotion and publicity has a great role to play in the marketing of tourism products. An amount of Rs. 1000 lakhs has been proposed for this head.
For the last few years MPSTDC is holding tourism festivals at Orchha and Panchmari. An amount of Rs. 100.00 lakhs has been proposed during the Tenth Plan for this activity.
To develope the minimum basic essential facilities at two new tourist circuits. one at Jabalpur - Bhedaghat - Kanha - Bandhavgarh and Second at Bhopal -Bhojpur - Bhimbetka - Pachmarhi provision of Rs. 50 lakhs has been made in the Tenth Plan.
To promote youth and adventure activities an amount of Rs. 100.00 lakhs has been provided.
Provision for grants to local bodies for construction of day shelters, approach road, water supply, landscaping, construction of Dharmshala, development of garden etc. at important tourist centers for tourist amounting to Rs. 95.00 lakhs has been made.
An amount of Rs. 10.00 lakhs has been provided to impart training to guides at important tourists centers.
An amount of Rs. 75.00 lakhs has been provided to give interest subsidy to MPFC for Heritage Hotels.
During the tenth Plan an amount of Rs. 150.00 restricted only to year 2002-2003 has been provided for upgradation of the units of MPSTDC.
During the Tenth Plan for the year 2002-03 an amount of Rs. 1400.00 lakhs and for the year 2003-04 an amount of Rs. 1145.00 lakhs has been provided under the 11th Finance Commission to fulfill the special needs of the tourists in the Jabalpur-Satna area.
An outlay of Rs. 5360.00 lakhs has been kept for Tenth Plan and Rs. 2073.00 lakhs for Annual Plan 2002-03.
12.4 Weights and Measures
The Weights and Measures Department plays an important role in the sphere of consumer's protection. Main functions of the department is to stamp and test the correctness of metric weights and Measures and other related instruments and to enforce the various provision of Central and State Govt. Act and Rules respectively.
Achievements during the Ninth Plan
The outlay for the Ninth Plan at constant prices of 1997-98 was Rs. 47.00 lakhs against which the expenditure incurred in 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 was Rs. 9.95, 9.73, 8.98 and 8.32 lakh respectively. For the year 2001-2002 the expected anticipated expenditure is Rs. 44.28 lakhs.
During the Ninth Five Year Plan 1997-200 intensive checking of weights and measures, and the goods in packaged form has been done, covering about 1899635 traders and 40206 prosecution cases has been registered against the fraudulent traders.
During the plan period under the scheme, provisions have been made for modernisation of equipments and strengthening the laboratories of the Divisional and District Offices. Balacnces were purchased for two offices during the year 2000-2001 and two sets of secondary standard weights and measures are being purchased in the plan year 2001-2002.
Tenth Five Year Plan and Annual Plan 2002-03
The provision of Rs. 36.0 lakhs has be made for the Tenth Plan and provision of Rs. 7.00 lakh has been made for the Annual Plan 2002-03 to cater for the activity of the department.
The programme proposed in 10th plan is modernisation of equipment and straightening of secondary standard laboratories of the district.