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Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Friday released the basic grant for this year to the Panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) amounting to Rs 79.21 crore. India News | Arunachal Pradesh Releases Rs 79 Crore Basic Grants to Panchayati Raj Institutions.
Itanagar, Sep. 23 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Friday released the basic grant for this year to the Panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) amounting to INR 79.21 crore. The amount accounts for 70 per cent of the basic grant to state PRIs, while the rest 30 per cent, which will be performance based, would be released after review of performances of the PRIs in their respective jurisdictions. Handing over the amount to the concerned department at a function held here by All Arunachal Pradesh Panchayati Raj Parishad (AAPPRP) as ‘thanksgiving’ to the state government, Khandu informed that the grant amount is from the state-owned resource tax revenue. “Instead of looking for help from the Centre for each and everything, we have allocated INR 123 crore from our internal resources to PRIs for this year and this is the basic grant we are releasing today,” he said. Stating that as per the 73rd Constitutional amendment, the state government has decid