Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF)

BRGF is designed to redress regional imbalance in development. The fund will provide financial resources for supplementing and converging existing developmental inflows into identified districts, so as to:

• Bridge critical gaps in local infrastructure and other development requirement that are not being adequately met through existing inflows.

• Strengthen, to this end Panchyat and Municipality level governance with more appropriate capacity building, to facilitate participatory planning decision making implementation and monitoring to reflect local felt needs.

• Provide professional support to local bodies for planning implementation and monitoring their plans.

• Improve the performance and delivery of critical functions assigned to Panchyats and counter possible efficiency and equity losses on account of inadequate local capacity.

As per the scheme guideline works belonging to following categories can be taken up:

• Agriculture and allied sectors (as relevant)

• Availability and development of water sources

• Industries – especially traditional, small industries including food processing

• Infrastructure including power

• Drinking water and sanitation

• Literacy, school education

• Health and medical facilities

• Poverty reduction and basic needs

• Gender and children

• Social Justice – SC/ST, Persons with disability etc.