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    The North Eastern Council (NEC) was estabished by North Eastern Council Act, 1971 intially as apex level advisory Body, for securing balanced and coordinated development and facilitating effective co-ordination amongst seven States of North Eastern Region. Subsequent to the amendment of NEC Act in December, 2002 (Notified on 23rd June, 2003) Sikkim was added as 8th Member State, and NEC was mandated to function as a statutory Regional Planning Body for the North Eastern Region. The Council comprises of Governors and Chief Ministers of constituent States and three members to be nominated by the President as per Clasus (iii) of Section 3 of the North Eastern Council (Amendment) Act, 1971. The Union Home Minsiter is ex-officio Chairman and the MoS(IC) DoNER is the ex-officio Vice-Chairman of the NEC.

    The broad objective of the NLCPR scheme is to ensure speedy development of infrastructure in the North Eastern Region by increasing the flow of budgetary financing for new infrastructure projects/schemes. Both economic and social infrastructure sectors, such as, Power, Roads & Bridges, Education, Health, Water Supply, and Sports, etc are considered for providing support under the Central Pool. Funds from the Central Pool can be released for State sector as well as Central sector projects/schemes. However, the funds available under this Pool are not meant to supplement the normal Plan programmes, either of the State Governments or Union Ministries/ Departments/ Agencies.

    It may kindly be recalled that in October 1996, the Central Government announcements of "New initiatives for the North Eastern Region" included a number of measures for the development of North Eastern Region. One of these was the policy decision to earmark at least 10% of Plan Budget(s) of the Central Ministries/Departments for the development of NE States. A preliminary exercise undertaken by he Planning Commission in consultation with the various Ministries / Department revealed that the expenditure on the North East by some Union Ministries during 1997-98 fell short of the stipulated 10% of the GBS for that year. Planning Commission thereafter explored the possibility of creating a Central Pool of Resources for the North East out of the unspent amount of stipulated 10% of GBS to support infrastructure development projects in the North East. Since 1998 - 1999 all Ministries/ Departments of GoI (except a few specifically exempted ones) are earmarking at least 10% of their annual bud

    The Criteria followed for exemption of a Ministry / Department are: Highly scientific Ministries / Departments with hardly any scope for work in the North East. The Ministries / Departments having no direct involvement in the North East and Sikkim such as the erstwhile Department of Ocean Development; The Ministries in which case the expenditure in the North East and Sikkim was "Nil" during the last three years; and. The Ministries / Departments whose Gross Budgetary Support is less than Rs. 10 crores.

    The amount by which actual expenditure of a Ministry / Department falls short of the earmarked outlay at RE stage is surrendered at the end of the financial year to the Ministry of Finance. This surrendered amount does not lapse, but accrues to the NLCPR Pool.

    Yes. In response of request from Ministries / Departments for exempting Department / Scheme from earmarking funds of the NER, the Ministry of DoNER advocates framing of broad based schemes / framing sub-schemes to suit implementation in the North East States.

    The annual requirement under the NLCPR scheme is projected by taking into account the volume of committed liability on sanctioned projects and new projects at various stages in the pipe-line for sanction.

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