Madikeri: The State Government has approved the plan and non-plan grant for Kodagu district for 2007-08 of Rs. 116.92 crore to be utilised by the zilla panchayat, three taluk panchayats and gram panchayats, according to information received by The Hindu .

Of this, Rs. 47.46 crore will go for plan expenditure while Rs. 69.45 crore will be utilised for the non-plan expenditure. The zilla panchayat will get Rs. 19.39 crore, taluk panchayats Rs. 9.94 crore and gram panchayats Rs. 18.13 crore under the plan grant. Under the Rs. 69.45 crore allocation in the non-plan grant, Rs. 29.07 crore will be for the zilla panchayat, Rs. 39.09 crore for the three taluk panchayats and Rs. 1.28 crore for the gram panchayats.

The Centre and the State Government have shared the grants.

Last year's plan grant to Kodagu was Rs. 47.02 crore under the plan expenditure and Rs. 65 crore under the no-plan grants. There is a marginal rise in the grant to the district this year. In the plan expenditure, Rs. 16.08 crore has been allocated for rural development projects, which ranks the highest. The State Government's share is Rs. 8 crore while the Centre has given Rs. 8.07 crore.

The primary and secondary education sector gets the next highest with Rs. 6.15 crore.

There is no Central grant under this head. The zilla panchayat will spend Rs. 5.85 crore while the taluk panchayats will get Rs. 30 lakh. In all, Rs. 4.86 crore will be spent on women and child welfare programmes.

Of this, the taluk panchayats will spend Rs. 3.96 crore while the zilla panchayat has been given Rs. 90.41 lakh.

The Centre has contributed the bulk of Rs. 3.17 crore while the State Government's share is Rs. 1.69 crore.

Family welfare programmes have been given Rs. 3.44 crore of which Centre's contribution is a whopping Rs. 3.39 crore. Housing schemes will get Rs. 2.38 crore while watershed development projects are to get Rs. 2.34 crore. Agriculture has received Rs. 1.84 crore, rural water supply works Rs. 1.66 crore, roads and bridges Rs. 1.25 crore, medical services Rs. 1.21 crore.

Only Rs.10 lakh has been given for forests. Sericulture (Rs. 4.45 lakh), minor irrigation (Rs. 2 lakh), adult education (Rs. 6 lakh).

In the non-plan sector, the bulk of the grants will go for salaries of employees and administrative expenditure.

Education sector garners the highest of Rs. 41.53 crore, followed by Rs. 6.28 crore for medical and public health, Rs. 4.44 crore for other rural development, Rs. 2.78 crore for SC development, Rs. 2.01 crore for ST development, Rs. 2.14 crore for nutritional food, Rs. 1.95 crore for backward class development.

Youth Services and Sports, Indian medicine system, special component plan, agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, fisheries, cooperation, minor irrigation, minority development are some of the 30 different heads under which grants will be utilised.

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