workshop based on this findings. Representatives from different civil society organizations working with various development issues, participated in the workshop under the chairmanship of the President of Minority Commis-

sion.

For the detailed study contact

Budget Analysis Rajasthan Center P-1, Tilak Marg, C-Scheme, Jaipur—302005

Tel/ Fax: 0141 2385254

E-mail : info@barcjaipur.org

For the past nine years Budget Analysis Rajasthan Centre (BARC) has been diligently working towards the process of analyzing state’s budget and policy . They have also been engaged in advocating on the budgetary issues need to be prioritized . BARC has accomplished an unique study called ”Accessibility of State Programs to the Muslim Families” on minor-ity communities with a special focus to the Muslims. This study is based in 6 cities of Rajasthan. The major findings of the study depicted the vul-nerability of the children from the Muslim families in the con-text of accessing Anganwadi services. It also illustrates that very few people from these communities are getting advan-tages of the beneficial program like the Pension Scheme run by

the department of Social

Welfare.

Almost15.3% families are not having their ration cards and a majority of people are not aware of the Minority Affairs department constituted by the state Government. A substantial proportion of these people are unaware of state’s major development initiatives targeted at the minority communities. Recently BARC has organized a one day

Muslim families are struggling to access the benefits of budget for

Minority Programs: BARC’s Study reveals

Influencing policy towards a pro-poor budget: An endeavor by Pathey

Budget work in India had gained momentum in 1995, with the work of Pathey, Their analysis of the state budget from the perspective of tribal

welfare, status of children, women, water and health conditions have made a significant impact on state government's policy. Pathey functions as a program unit of DISHA and has pioneered budget efforts at state level in India since 1990s. Budget Informational Analysis Service (BIAS) of Pathey supplies budg-etary information to the MLAs across party line for the

facilitation of a constructive debate during state’s budget making process at the assembly. These budget briefs enhance budgetary knowledge of the community and also induces other stake holders like the Civil Society Organizations and the Mass Media to advocate at their respective levels for a pro-

poor budget.

October 2012

Issue I

Budget Round Up

Findings

• The study report on “Accessibility of State Programs to the Muslim Families” in Rajasthan.

By BARC

• Study report Conducted by Life Education and Development Support (LEAD) on “Allocations and Implications under Tribal Sub Plan during Eleventh Five Year Plan

in Jharkhand”.

Changing Direction

• Pathey ‘s deliberation for making a pro-poor budget through

influencing state’s policy.

Building Awareness

• OBAC instigated Community Radio Program in Western Odisha in order to foster the process of communities’ understanding on

budgetary issues

Budget

Terminologies

• Keywords used in State Budget (to be continued

in next editions)

Miscellaneous

• What does Publish What you Fund’s 2012 Aid Transparency Index Tell

us?

• Partnership– IBP and PBI

Budget analysis program by Pathey

Participants of the workshop

One day workshop on the “Accessibility of State Program to the

Muslim Families”

resources for the development

of SC and ST

communities. TSP came into

force during the year 1974.

The main objective of the Govt. behind the initiation of

the TSP was

� to ensure that the share of resources spent for the benefit of these two back-ward communities should be in proportion to their

population in the country.

� Substantial reduction in poverty and un-employment among the

SCs and STs.

� Creation of productive assets in favor of Sched-uled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to sustain the growth likely to be ac-quired through develop-

ment efforts.

� Human resource develop-ment of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes through specially providing adequate educa-

tional and services. And

� Provision of Physical and financial security against all

types of exploitation and

oppression .

LEAD had taken up this study

at the backdrop of the above

mentioned objectives stated by the Indian Govt. The empha-size was laid on to demystify the facts, illusions, prevalent norms, planned allocation and budgetary allocation regarding

the Tribal Sub Plan.

More than one fourth of the total inhabitants (26.3% of the total population) belong to the Tribal community in Jharkhand. This study on Tribal Sub Plan was conducted on the analysis of the secondary data and re-ports, mainly from the detailed Demands for the Grant and

CAG Reanalysis

According to the study there was a considerable hike in the budgetary allocation for the TSP in Eleventh Five Year Plan as compared to that of the Tenth Five Year Plan. During this tenure the allocations for the Agricultural Sector was relatively high. This step was taken to subdue the consider-able shortfall had happened in the Tenth Five Year Plan in Agriculture and allied sectors. In spite of this expanded budget the major area of con-cern for the TSP remained in the failure to make an even allocation by each department. One of the pivotal agendas of TSP as mentioned earlier was to elevate the socio-economic conditions of the tribal com-munities residing in the rural

areas of Jharkhand.

The Rural Development De-partment, one of the chief functionaries in the context of Tribal upliftment had been

allocated 10% of its planned budget in TSP. Moreover, de-partments like General Eco-nomic Services and Transport Department which are rela-tively less relevant in regard to the tribal empowerment had been allocated highest budget in TSP. Three departments like Communication, Special Area Program and Energy were allocated zero budget in

Tribal Sub Plan.

In addition to this disparity of department-wise uneven and unjustified budget allocation there was some serious issues of concern highlighted by this

study.

Most of the states are still struggling for the allocation on TSP head. Contrary to this fact, all the ministries except communication had been allo-cated fund for TSP far larger than the prescribed norms of

population bar for Jharkhand.

Besides TSP, implementation of SCSP is also mandatory and as essential as TSP. Jharkhand is one of the poorest states of India and incidence of poverty is equal in case of all the eth-nicities residing in remote and backward areas of the state,

this study concludes.

For the detailed study contact

Life Education and Develop-ment Support (LEAD)

Shree Maa Apartment,

Flat No: 203 and 401,

P.N. Bose Compound,

Purulia Road,

Ranchi: 834001

Tel/ Fax: 0651 2532304

Mobile: 09431356092

E-mail : leadsindiajh@gmail.com

Tribal development in Jharkhand taking back seat with the prudent departmental allocations in

Tribal Sub Plan : Voices LEAD’s study

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Life and Development Support (LEAD), a Jhark-hand based Non Gov-ernment Organization, conducted a study on “Allocations and Im-plications under Tribal Sub Plan dur-ing Eleventh Five Year Plan in Jhark-hand”. Before getting into the major findings of the study it is imperative to unleash the back-ground of Tribal Sub

Plan.

After the completion of four five year and three annual plans it was real-ized by the policy mak-ers that the process of mainstream develop-ment targeted at the SC and ST populations are falling short of the in-tended milestone. The strategy of Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) and Sched-uled Caste Sub Plan was initiated by the Govt. of India during the fifth five year plan (1974-1979). These two planned schemes appeared as a sub component of public

sector plan

State conference on Tribal Sub Plan organized by LEAD

Issue I

One of the key challenges of the Odisha Budget and Accountability Centre has been to establish a community based dialogue with the ground

level budget makers.

Community Radio Program was experimented in select villages western Odisha which comprises of the underdeveloped district like Kalahandi, Koraput, and Bolangir. Radio is one of the major tools of entertainment based education and being affordable and accessible to the poor, is considered as the best

medium to propagate and communicate with them. In order to add an essence of the soil, the radio episodes are formulated in local western

Oriya language.

The dissemination process is done through both in broad-casting and narrowcasting format. All the four episodes are being transmitted through All India Radio, Bhawanipatna (Kalahandi). Narrowcasting is aimed at a specific community groups hailing from 105 villages

of western Odisha.

It was even felt that if the target communities listen to the budget related radio programs together, then it would instigate discussions and brain storming sessions on concepts and issues related to

budget.

OBAC has been successful in generating considerable amount of interest among the community members to share dialogue with the local political leaders and other ground level policy makers referring to their needs and

priorities.

Connecting Community with the Budgetary Process: An initiative in the

form of Community Radio by OBAC

providing aid. The report urges donors to sign and implement the International Aid Transparency Initia-tive (IATI), which offers a global common standard for publishing aid information. Aid information published to this standard is shared openly in a timely, comprehensive, com-

parable, and accessible way.

For more click on to

http://internationalbudget.org/2012/10/with-aggressive-outreach-internet-based-participatory-budgeting-proves-

effective-in-brazil/

Source: International Budget Partner-

ship

(http://www.internationalbudget .org)

According to Publish What You Fund’s 2012 Aid Transparency Index, which was released 1 October, do-nor transparency is on the rise but continues to fall short of best practice. This news is par-ticularly disappointing at a time when transparency is critical to ensuring confidence in aid spending. The Aid Transpar-ency Index examines and ranks donors based on how transparent they are in

A civil society coalition, which campaigns for the inclusion of people's move-ments, grassroots organi-zations and national and international NGOs in the policy processes that de-termine the priorities un-derlying government budg-ets in India. For more click on to http://www.cbgaindia.org/advo-cacy_peoples_budget_initiative.php

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What Does Publish What You Fund’s 2012 Aid Transparency Index Tell

Us?

Community listening to the Radio

Program

Preparation of episodes for the

Radio Program

Issue I

Keywords Used in State Budget

Budget: This is a financial estimate to show how much money a person or an organization will earn and how much they will need or be able to spend in a year. The term “Budget” is derived from Bougette which is a French word meaning Purse. It generally refers to a list of all proposed in-comes and expenses of the government. Under Article 202(1) of the Constitution of India, a state-ment of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the state has to be laid before the legislature in respect of every financial year. This statement is known as “Annual Financial Statement” (AFS) or popularly known as Budget. In the Indian federation, the Government has two layers. The Central Government presents its budget on the last day of February every year. However, the State Gov-ernments adhere to no such fixed date. Recently there is an attempt to have uniform Budget system for all the third tiers of the Local Government in the country. The Budget of a State Government is generally presented before the Legislative Assembly in the last week of February or the first week

or March every year.

International Budget Partnership (IBP) collaborates with civil soci-ety around the world to analyze and influence pub-lic budgets in order to re-duce poverty and improve the quality of governance. p://internationalbudget.org/

*to be continued in next editions

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Organizational Brief.. (Contributed in this edition)

Rational behind......

Odisha Budget and Ac-countability Center

Step towards

disseminating

information on

budget work

throughout the

nation…. An OBAC

initiative

CYSD has been working

towards strengthening

the lives of the poor,

deprived,

under-privileged and the

marginalized people in

Odisha. OBAC (Odisha

Budget and Accountabil-

ity Centre) is an upshot of

intensive and continuous

budget analysis and

advocacy process

undertaken by CYSD.

Budget Analysis Rajast-

han Centre (BARC), a

Jaipur based budget and

policy analysis and ad-

vocacy group working

diligently for the past

nine years towards a peo-

ple centered transparent,

accountable, participa-

tory governance and

budget implementation.

Pathey facilitates de-

bates over financial

allocations of the

government for the

poor and marginalized

communities through -

Empowerment,

Capacity building,

Budget Research and

advocacy process for

transparent, account-

able governance.

http://www.cbgaindia.org/files/chater_of_demands /Charter%20of%20Demands%20For%20Union%20Budget%

202012-13.pdf

Publications..

Grant in aid and

loans to Pancha-

yat in English-

2012-13

http://www.pathey.in/download/others/grant-aid-panchayat2012-13-

english.pdf

http://www.barcjaipur.org/admin/cat-images/ca-tImg_1360876856.p

df

http://www.obac.in/

index.php?bmkey=10

Life Education And

Development Support

(LEADS) is a trust estab-

lished on December 14th

2005 working towards the

development and

empowerment of poor and

unrecognized people of

rural areas and urban slums

in Jharkhand and adjacent

states like Chhatisgarh,

Bihar and Odisha.

This e-newsletter is compiled, edited and published by “Odisha Budget and Accountability Centre”, E-1, Institutional Area,

Gangadhar Meher Marg Bhubaneswar - 751 013, Odisha,