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The Finance Ministry has released an amount over Rs 4,189 crore to four States for providing grants to the Rural Local Bodies.

Of this amount Tripura received Rs 44.10 crore. The amount has to be spent for providing pure drinking water, rain water harvesting and water recycling  and also to create proper sanitation infrastructures , Open Defecation status Free in the rural areas of the state. The fund will be spent in these two services which are being implemented under the centrally sponsored schemes.

The money was released by Department of Expenditure on Wednesday.

Of the total amount, over Rs 2,239 crore has been released for Uttar Pradesh, more than Rs 708 crore for Gujarat, over Rs 628 crore for Karnataka, Rs  569 crore  for Andhra Pradesh and over Rs 44 crore for Tripura.

Total grant of over Rs 15,705 crore released to Rural Local bodies so far in 2022-23, says Finance Ministry

The Local Body grants are meant to ensure additional funds to Rural local bodies over and above the funds allocated by the Centre and the State for sanitation and drinking water under the Centrally Sponsored Schemes.

The Ministry said, the 15th Finance Commission had recommended to release Tied grants to Rural Local Bodies on the recommendations of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation for making improvements on two critical services. These are Sanitation and maintenance of open-defecation free status, and supply of drinking water, rain water harvesting and water recycling. The Ministry said, total grant of over 15 thousand 705 crore rupees has been released to Rural Local bodies so far in 2022-23.

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