Ministry of Rural DeveloPment

DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION AND MONITORING COMMITTEE

(DrsHA)

Objective

A large number significant and ambitious programmes are being implemented for
of
and well-being of the
improvement of infrastructure and for improving human development
people. District Development coordination and Monitoring committee
(DISHA) is being

formed with a view to fulfill the objective of ensuring a better coordination among all the elected
(Panchayati Raj
representatives in Parliament, State Legislatures and Local Governments
Institutions/Municipal Bodies) for efficient and time-bound development
of districts in our
programmes in accordance
country. These Committees could monitor the implementation of the
for greater
with prescribed procedures and guidelines and promote synelgy and convelgence
impact. The DISHA supercedes the District Vigilance & Monitoring
Committee currently
dated ZJrh June,20i6 (copy
mandated by Ministry of Rural Development vide its communication

placed at Annexure-I)

2. Background
part IX of the Constitution of India provides for Panchayats and part XI defines the
List - I provides the union List'
relationship between the Union and States. Seventh Schedule
concurrent List of responsibilities of
List II provides the State List and List - III provides the
-
29 items that are the responsibility of
centre and states. Likewise, the Eleventh Schedule lists
provides the list of 18 items that are
Local Governments in rural areas and rwelfth Schedule
under urban Local Government'
local governments with power for
Article 243 Gprovides authority to State Legislature to endow
planning and imPlementation'
Planning (DPC)'
Article 243 ZDprovides the authority for Committee for District
DISHA is an eflbrt to improve development coordination and monitoring within the

Governments'
Constitutional framework of responsibilities assigned to Central, State and Local

3. Composition

The District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) should

have the

following composition:
(Lok Sabha)
Chairperson: The Chairperson of the DISHA should be a Member of Parliament
The criteria for
elected from the district, nominated by the Ministry of Rural Development.
nomination should be the following:

(i) Where there are more than one Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) representing the
district, the senior-most Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) should be nominated as
the Chairperson. However, the Warrant of Precedence maintained by the Ministry
of

Home Affairs should be followed, which may result in exceptions.

(ii) Ifthe district has more than one Parliamentary Constituency (Lok Sabha) as its
segments and the senior-most Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) is made
Chairperson of DISHA in some other district, the next senior-most Member of

Parliament (Lok Sabha) should be the Chairperson'

(iii) In case of same seniority, the Chairperson should be the Member of Parliament in
whose Parliamentary Constituency the largest geographical area of the district falls.

Co-Chairperson:
(a) The other Members of parliament (Lok Sabha) representing the district should be

designated as Co-ChairPersons.

(b) Rajya Sabha MP: One MP (Rajya Sabha) representing the State and exercising option to
be associated with the district level Committee of that district
(on hrst come basis), to be

designated as Co-Chairpersons by the Ministry of Rural Development'

maintained by the
Note: In case the Mp from RS is senior following the Warrant of Precedence
Ministry of Home Affairs, he / she may be made as chairperson of the committee'

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 shourd be the District collector /
Member secretary: The Member Secretary of the DISHA
where specific exemption has been
District Magistrate/ Deputy Commissioner except in cases
the District
given by the Union Government. In very extraordinary circumstances
Magistrate/Deputy Commissioner could authorize the CEO
Zila Parishad or a Senior ADM to be
meetings of the DISHA are held as
the Member Secretary for a particular meeting to ensure that
scheduled.

Members: The other Members of the committee should be as fo110ws:

(i) All Members of the State Legislative Assembly elected from the district'
(ii) one representative of the State Govemment / UT Administration'
(iii) All Mayors / the Chairpersons of Municipalities (inclusive of at least one woman) and
to be nominated by the
five elected heads of.Gram Panchayat (inclusive of two women)
chairperson and the other Members of Parliament in the
committee'

(iv) Chairperson of the ZilaPanchayat'

having Schedule VI Areas'
(v) Head of the Autonomous District Council in districts

(vi) All chairpersons of Intermediate Panchayats in the district.

(vii) Chief Executive Officer of the ZilaPanchayal

(viii)ProjectDirector,DRDA/PovertyAlleviationUnit'
(ix) Ministry of Rural Development, Govemment of India may nominate up to 4 members
as

member of the committee from the following categories:

a. Eminent person of the district from social, academic or public fields

having
development in
special knowledge or experience of socio economic
the

region/district'
working in the
b. Eminent person/office bearer of a civil society organization
in the region/district'
district/relion in the freld of socio-economic development
(above the age of 60 years)'
c. Eminent person in the senior citizencategory

one of the
provided that, At least one of the above persons shall be a woman and; At least
caste or a scheduled tribe category'
above persons shall be from either a scheduled

provided further that continuance of these persons as member of the committee

will be at
Government of India'
the discretion of Ministry of Rrryal Development,

by the chairperson and the other

(x) one Member from a reputed NGO, to be nominated
Members of Parliament in the Committee'
 by the chairperson and
(xi) one representative each of sc, sT and women to be nominated
the other Members of Parliament in the Commtttee'
(xii) Lead Bank officer of the district'
(xiii) Senior Superintendent/ Superintendent of the Postal Department'
under the purview of
(xiv) District level nodal functionaries of all Programmes that will be
DISHA. The tist of Programmes is atPata 5 below'

4. Terms of Reference
(i) Ensure that all programmes are implemented in accordance
with the programme

Guidelines.
(ii) Facilitate coordinated solution to remove constraints of any
kind'
the DPC'
(iii) Facilitate smooth implementation of priorities determined by
(iv) Resolve matters related to provision of land and space for faster roll out
of

priorities.
they can be leveraged for
(v) Guide DPCs about all the national programmes and how
transformation of the district'
(vi) Identify issues for follow up in Parliament, state Assemblies and Local

Governmentsfortimelyachievementofobjectives.
coverage'
(vii) lntensively monitor all time bound national initiatives for universal
(viii) Recommend improvements in design of approved programmes and
suggest mid -
course corrections to address implementation constraints.

(ix) Look into complaints/alleged inegularities received in respect of the

implementation of the programmes' including complaints

of wrong selection of
recommend follow-up
beneficiaries, mis-appropriation / diversion of funds and
action. The Committee should have the authority to summon
and inspect any
matter for enquiry to the
record for this purpose. The committee may refer any
District CollectoriCEO of the Zlla PanchayatlProject Director of DRDA (or

poverty Alleviation Unit) or suggest suitable action to be taken in accordance with

theruleswhichshouldbeacteduponbyhimwithin30days
allocated, funds released by
(x) Closely review the flow of funds including the funds
under each Scheme'
both Centre and the State, utilization and unspent balances
5. Programmes to be covered by DISHA
that are administered in
DISHA wil cover all non-statutory schemes of Government of India
assigned under a
general. However, the functions of schemes that have been specifically
for monitoring' In such cases' the extant
statute cannot be assigned to any other committee
schemes is:
statutory provisions will prevail. A suggestive list of

Scheme (MGNREGS)
1. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee

2. Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana - NRLM

3.DeenDayalUpadhyaya-GrameenKaushalyaYojana(DDU-GKY)
4. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)
5. National Social Assistance Programme (I\SAP)
6.PradhanMantriAwasYojana(HousingforAll-Urban)
7. Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojna - Gramin (PMAY-G)
8. Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM)
9. Swachh Bharat Mission - Gramin (SBM- G)
10. National Rural Drinking Water Programme O{RDWP)
- Integrated watershed
ll.Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojna (PMKSY)
Management Programme (IWMP)
(DILRMP)
12. Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme
13. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana
(DDUGJY)

14.ShyamaPrasadMukherjiRurbanMission-NationalRurbanMission(NRuM)

city Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY)

15. Heritage
(AMRUT)
16. Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation
17. Smart CitY Mission

18. Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)

19. National Health Mission (NHM)

20. Sarva Siksha AbhiYan (SSA)

2l . Integrated Child Development S cheme (ICD S)
 22.Mid-DaY Meal Scheme
23 . PradhanMantri Ujj wala Yoj ana (PMUY)
24.Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)
25. Digital India - Public Internet Access Programme - providing Common Service
Centre in each Gram PanchaYat
highways, waterways'
26. Infrastructure related programmes like Telecom. railways,
mines, etc.

2T.PradhanMantriKhanrjKshetraKalyanYojana(PMKKKY)
28. Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS)
29.Non-LapsableCentralPoolofResources(NLCPR)scheme
30. Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY)
31. Paramp aragat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY)
32. Soil Health Card (SHC)
33. e-National Agriculture Markets (E-NAM)

34. PMKSY (HKKP)

35. Surface Minor Irrigation Scheme

and Restoration (RRR) Scheme of Ministry of water
36. Repair Renovation
Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation

37. Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana

(PMAGY)

38.PrimeMinister,sEmploymentGenerationProgramme(PMEGP)
39. SugamYa Bharat AbhiYan
40. Beti Bachao Beti Padhao

41. Implementation of National Food Security

sector programmes/schemes to be
Decision to include or exclude any central
Rural Development'
reviewed by the committee rests with Ministry of

6. Number of Meetings

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 after giving
Meetings of the DISHA should be held at least once in every Quarter,
During the year at least 4
sufficient notice to the Hon'ble MPs/MLAs and all other Members'
meetings are to be organized. However, if chairman so desires, number of meetings to be

convened can be more than four. The meetings can be convened

even if all the members of the
chairperson, co-
committee have not been nominated. In the absence of the designated
present, should preside over
chairperson (if any), with consensus among'the co-chairpersons
the meeting. If no chairperson / co-chairperson is present, the Members who are present
over the scheduled meeting'
should elect a chairperson from among themselves to preside

7. Schedule of Meetings

agenda setting for the

Every DISHA committee will have to evolve its own system of
be arranged on any day during
quarterly meetings. It is suggested that the regular meeting may
third week of April, July, october and February with the permission
of chairperson' For
meeting to be notified with the consent/
organizingadditional meetings, date and month of the
direction of the ChairPerson.

Member Secretary should be personally responsible

for convening meetings'

8. Agenda and Follow uP action

Agenda:

previous meeting should be the first agenda item

Action Taken on the recommendations of the
,Action taken Report, of the irregularities flagged during the previous
for the next meeting. The
during review meetings with the
meeting should form an integral part of the agenda
in quality
should contain substantive issues to facilitate improvement
States/districts. The agenda
of implementation of the programmes'

B Follow uP action:

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 the programmes reviewed by DISHA
Officer's in-charge of the line departments executing
should assist the committee in the discharge
of its functions. proceedings of meetings will be

sent to relevant Ministries/Departments for

action. The proceedings of the meetings should be
of the DISHA
issued within 10 days of the meeting. Follow up action on recommendations
the meeting. Action taken shall be monitored
in
committee shourd be initiated within 30 days of
DISHA meetings.

15 days prior to the meeting' Agenda

Meeting notice should reach all members at least
should reach all members at least 10 days
prior to the meeting and The Member Secretary
note
and proceedings of meetings are immediately
should ensure that meeting notice, agendd notes

uploaded on both the website of the Ministry of Rural Development

and the website of the State Government'

of the DISHA meetings and follow up on its decisions

will be regularly
RegularitY
centrally Sponsored
monitored at the time of making releases to states under central and
progriunmes'

g. ExPenditure for the meeting:

on holding the meeting of DISHA at

The District Administration may incur expenditure
The total expenditure should not' however'
district level adhering to the norms applicable.
exceedRs.2,00,000/-permeetingandthebillsshouldbeclearedbytheconcernedState
Government/DRDA(orZl||aPanchayat)ofthestatebasedonactual.Thenormsforthe
expenditure for DISHA are given below:

other than Members of Parliament

a. Non- official members of DISHA committee,
andMembersofStateLegislativeassemblyshallbeentitledforreimbursementof
expenditure on local travel within the district
for attending the Meetings as
applicable to Group 'A' Officers of the State'

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 Member of
Daily allowance may be allowed to non-official members other than
DA
parliament andMembers of State Legislative Assembly at the State Government

rate applicable for Group 'A' Officers of the State

c. The District Administration may incur expenditure on: light refreshments'

arrangement of venue, minimum stationery required, etc'

Regarding other logistics and infrastructural facilities required
for the functioning of
d.
may be made use of.
the DISHA, the facilities available with the district headquarter
No expenditure should be allowed on items like computer, office accommodation'
fumiture, telePhone etc.
The records of expenditure should be maintained at the district
level and claims

should be made by DRDA (or zilaPanchayat) based on actual.

The Ministry of Rural Development will reimburse the amount claimed by DRDA

(or Zila Panchayat) based on the actual expenditure incurred within the overall
ceiling of Rs. 2,00,000/-.

10. Powers of the Committee

powers. Its role is to facilitate timely
This committee will have coordination and Monitoring
effective follow up of issues
execution of approved Projects. It will have powers in seeking
raised during the deliberation. The District Collector
will be the Member Secretary
responsible for the timely follow up on recommendations.

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