The Centre on Monday launched ₹12,351.5 crore to 18 States as grants to rural native our bodies (RLBs) for 2020-21, taking the entire grants launched for such our bodies this 12 months to ₹45,738 crore.
The grants are primarily based on the interim suggestions of the fifteenth Finance Commission for 2020-21.
“The grants are meant to ensure additional funds to RLBs over and above the funds allocated by the Centre and the State for sanitation and drinking water under the centrally sponsored schemes like Swachh Bharat and Jal Jeevan Mission,” the finance ministry stated.
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