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In line with government’s commitment to evaluate all centrally-sponsored schemes before fresh appraisals, the Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO) under NITI Aayog has invited proposals for consultants to evaluate 28 umbrella centrally sponsored schemes under 10 sectors. The exercise is expected to be completed before the start of 20th Finance Commission post March 2020.
In order to rationalise the available resources based on the recommendations of the Finance recommendations of the Finance Commission for the achievement of the National Development Agenda, the government had made the approval of the schemes co-terminus with the Finance Commission cycle. “Since the 14th Finance Commission cycle will end in March 2020 and the 15th Finance Commission will begin after that, government has assigned DMEO, NITI Aayog the responsibility to conduct independent third-party evaluation of all the CSS in a time-bound manner so that the findings of the evaluation are made available for determining the rationalisation of the schemes.
