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Events States - Gujarat IRMA to host meet on empowering panchayat bodies Our Bureau Ahmedabad, Dec. 19 ‘Issues before the Finance Commission: Empowering Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI)’ is the theme of a conference to be held at Institute of Rural Management Anand on December 22 and 23. The agenda for the conference would be to discuss issues concerning fiscal devolution to PRIs and creation of devolution systems from the Centre and States to Panchayats, according to an IRMA release. The conference will review the past experience and identify ways to arrive at an effective financial devolution mechanism to PRIs and municipalities as per the terms of reference. The conference is expected to help Finance Commissions at Central and State level to evolve specific policy initiatives to streamline the process of fiscal devolution to the PRIs, said the release. Around 40 participants from the field of financial decentralisation to the Panchayati Raj Institutions, representatives of the Panchayati Raj and Rural Development departments of the Government of India and the state Governments will present papers on Review of Earlier Recommendations, Financial Devolution to PRIs and Incentivising States, Working of State Finance Commissions, Accounting, Data Base and Capacity Building of PRIs, Issues Concerning Broader Decentralisation and Analysis of the constitutional asymmetry in devolution between Centre and State and State and Local Bodies. The conference grows out of IRMA’s completion of the ‘State of Panchayats Report 2007-08’ released by the Prime Minister in April 2008. Based on the conference proceedings, a framework of recommendations will be submitted to the Thirteenth Finance Commission. More Stories on : Events | Rural Development | Gujarat
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