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Operational Guidelines on National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2008
Summary :The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,(NREGA) was notified on September 7, 2005. The Scheme is being implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme on a cost-sharing basis between the Center and the States as determined by the Act.
  
Guidelines on Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Sashaktikaran Abhiyan (RGPSA), 2013
Summary :Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Sashaktikaran Abhiyan (RGPSA) has been launched to strengthen Panchayati Raj. This scheme was approved on 07.03.2013
  
Guidelines for the Formulation of District Plans,1969, Planning Commission government of India
Summary :The document provides guidelines for the formulation of District Plans, establishing extensive framework of development. The guidelines make a sustained effort to encourage greater initiative on the part of the states to draw up their plans in the light of local resources, potentials and problems within the overall framework of national priority.
  
Guidelines on Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADs)
Summary :The document provides the revised guidelines to the general public approach Members of Parliament (MPs) for provision of certain basic facilities including community infrastructure in their areas. The document also inculcate financial discipline at the District level , monitoring of MPLADs work and clearly demarcating the functioning of Panchayat, Block, District and State level.
  
Guidelines on Manpower for the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs)
Summary :The 73rd and 74th amendment to the Constitution of India increased the importance of decentralised planning particularly at a local level. However for the same it is required that capacities of PRI members is strengthened. Such guidelines address this issue.
  
Guidelines for District Plans in the Eleventh Five Year Plan
Summary :The constitution of India, 73rd and 74th Amendments mandates local planning at the village panchayat, intermediate panchayats and district panchayat levels as well as in urban local governments and their consolidation into a District Plan in each district.The ‘district plan process’ is an integral part of the process of preparation of state’s Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007- 2012) and the annual plans.These are guidelines for preparation of the district plans.
  
National Capacity Building Framework
Summary :The Framework describes the preparatory activities, building up of training infrastructure, developing a pool of resource persons, the range of handholding activities required to sustain a capacity development effort, planning the logistic of implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of capacity building efforts. It suggests training programmes in a range of areas, including Centrally-Sponsored Schemes (CSS), clearly indicating the duration, sequencing and target category with indicative timelines for completion of the training programmes, norms for strengthening the training related infrastructure and pedagogical software.