Under Digital India Programme, Ministry of Panchayati Raj is implementing e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project (MMP), in all the States/ UTs of the country. The aim is to revamp the functioning of Panchayats and to make them more transparent, accountable and effective. Ministry has launched eGramSwaraj, an accounting application to simplify Panchayat work like planning, accounting and budgeting. Ministry has also integrated eGramSwaraj with Public Financial Management System (PFMS) for Gram Panchayats (GPs) to make real time payments to vendors/service providers. The progress made by States, including West Bengal, under eGramSwaraj in for the year 2022-23 is given as below:

 

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Adoption of eGramSwaraj at Panchayat level during FY 2022-23

 

S. No	State Name	Total Number of Village Panchayats & Equivalent	Village Panchayat onboard		Village Panchayats & Equivalent with Online Payment		Total Number of Block Panchayats		Block Panchayat onboard		Block Panchayats with Online Payment		Total Number of Zila Panchayats		Zila Panchayat onboard		Zila Panchayats with Online Payment
1	ANDHRA PRADESH	13371	8845		2		660		603		0		13		13		10
2	ARUNACHAL PRADESH	2114	2088		1120		0		0		0		25		25		20
3	ASSAM	2663	2197		2180		191		191		191		30		26		26
4	BIHAR	8176	8175		7920		534		534		531		38		38		36
5	CHHATTISGARH	11659	11658		11537		146		146		146		27		27		27
6	GOA	191	191		131		0		0		0		2		1		1
7	GUJARAT	14400	14236		13334		248		248		248		33		33		33
8	HARYANA	6230	5976		3605		142		140		84		22		22		17
9	HIMACHAL PRADESH	3615	3611		3557		81		81		80		12		12		12
10	JHARKHAND	4345	4342		4337		264		264		263		24		24		24
11	KARNATAKA	5958	5958		5938		233		232		226		31		31		31
12	KERALA	941	941		940		152		152		152		14		14		14
13	MADHYA PRADESH	23032	22970		21419		313		313		303		52		52		51
14	MAHARASHTRA	27896	27713		25942		351		351		351		34		34		34
15	MANIPUR	3812	161		160		0		0		0		12		6		6
16	MEGHALAYA	6760	0		0		2240		0		0		3		3		0
17	MIZORAM	834	834		764		0		0		0		0		0		0
18	NAGALAND	1293	5		0		0		0		0		0		0		0
19	ODISHA	6798	6798		6764		314		314		314		30		30		30
20	PUNJAB	13241	13162		9629		152		151		131		22		22		21
21	RAJASTHAN	11342	11314		11241		352		352		350		33		33		33
22	SIKKIM	198	181		175		0		0		0		6		4		4
23	TAMIL NADU	12525	12480		11788		388		388		386		36		36		36
24	TELANGANA	12769	12745		12468		540		539		500		32		32		32
25	TRIPURA	1178	1178		1151		75		75		75		9		9		8
26	UTTARAKHAND	7812	7789		7686		95		95		92		13		13		13
27	UTTAR PRADESH	58842	58812		58138		827		826		822		75		75		75
28	WEST BENGAL	3340	3229		3222		344		334		334		22		21		21
Total		265335		247589		225148		8642		6329		5579		650		636		615

 

Furthermore, Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is implementing the BharatNet project to provide broadband connectivity to all GPs in the country. Phase-I of the project to connect one lakh GPs has been completed in December, 2017. Under Phase- 1 of BharatNet out of 1.23 lakh GPs approximately 1.22 lakhs of GPs were made Service Ready. Implementation of Phase-II to connect remaining GPs is in progress. Under Phase -2 of BharatNet out of 1.44 lakh allotted GPs more than 71,000 GPs have been made Service Ready.

All States are making efforts at State level to implement e-Panchayat MMP, based on their available resources. However, due to differentials in the level of preparedness of Panchayats across the country, States are at different stages of implementing these applications. Besides, some States also have their own State-specific applications for similar purpose.

This information was given by the Union Minister of State for Panchayati Raj, Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

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