Plan Coordination (PC) Division

The Plan Coordination Division is responsible for the coordination of all plan schemes and programmes of the Ministry in close association with the Planning Commission. This involves preparation, monitoring and review of Five Year Plans, Annual Plans and the Annual Action Plans of the Ministry. The Division also looks after the monitoring of progress reports and reports under the 20-Point Programme (Points XV item No. 52 & 53).

Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012)

Against an approved outlay of Rs. 5945 crores, the total expenditure of the Ministry during the 10th Five Year Plan (2002-07) amounted to Rs.5112 crores. For the 11th Five Year Plan, 2007-12, the Ministry has been provided with an outlay of Rs.10005 crores. A rationalization exercise was also carried out by clubbing/merging large number of plan schemes of the Ministry into 22 thematic schemes. The Annual plan 2007-08, first year of the 11th Plan had an approved outlay of Rs. 1351 crores against which the actual utilization amounted to Rs.1349.73 crores. For 2008-09, the approved outlay of the Ministry is Rs. 1500 crores, which is likely to be fully utilized. An outlay of Rs. 1500.00 crores has been re-allocated by the Planning Commission for the Annual Plan 2009-10 of the Ministry. Sector-wise details are given in Table below :

Table-Tenth Plan Expenditure, Eleventh Plan Outlays / Expenditure - Ministry of Environment and Forests

S.l No.	Sector	Tenth Plan		XIth Plan	2007-08		2008 - 2009		2009-10
		Outlay	Exp.	Outlay	Outlay	Exp.	Outlay (BE)	Outlay (RE)	Outlay, 2009-10
1.	Environment	1200.00	917.73	1246.01	259.16	223.44	261.38	259.34	289.42
2.	National River Conservation Directorate	1670.00	1548.24	2540.00	340.00	321.03	340.00	327.33	327.33
3.	Forestry & Wildlife	1600.00	1280.48	2948.99	371.61	363.39	475.00	511.71	466.63
4.	National Afforest- ation and Eco-development Board	1300.00	1290.81	3150.00	359.23	422.03	398.62	376.62	391.62
5.	Animal Welfare	175.00	75.11	120.00	21.00	21.00	25.00	25.00	25.00
	Total	5945.00	5112.37	10005.00	1351.00	1350.89	1500.00	1500.00	1500

The progress of plan schemes are reviewed regularly in the Ministry and necessary corrective action is taken to ensure proper and meaningful deployment of resources with a view to building up the capacities of the State Governments in Forestry and Environment Sector, for the programmatic aspects and variegated Centrally Sponsored and Central Sector Scheme.