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Revised PMKKKY Guidelines, 2024
What the 2024 guidelines say about where DMFT money can go, and how the Trust must plan, spend and report.
The 70 : 30 rule
At least 70% of the money must go to high priority sectors. The rest can go to infrastructure and other sectors.
Within the guideline DMFT Jamtara has allocated 75.5% of sanctioned funds to high priority sectors. Fund dashboard
High priority · ≥ 70%
- Drinking water supply
- Environment preservation and pollution control
- Health care
- Education
- Welfare of women and children
- Welfare of the aged and persons with disabilities
- Skill development and livelihood
- Sanitation
- Housing
- Agriculture and animal husbandry
Other priority · ≤ 30%
- Physical infrastructure: roads, bridges, buildings
- Irrigation
- Watershed development and energy
- Other measures for the environment of the mining district
Key provisions
1 Who counts as affected
Directly affected areas are villages and gram panchayats within 15 km of a mine or cluster of mines. Indirectly affected areas lie up to 25 km away, or downstream, where the economic, social or environmental effects of mining are felt.
Affected people include families displaced or whose land was acquired, people who lost traditional rights over land, and others identified by the Gram Sabha.
2 Plans before money
Every DMF prepares a five-year perspective plan based on a baseline survey of affected areas, and an annual plan approved by the Governing Council before the financial year starts. Works outside the annual plan need Governing Council approval.
3 Role of the Gram Sabha
Gram Sabhas of affected villages identify beneficiaries, propose works for the annual plan and receive the list of works sanctioned in their area. In Scheduled Areas, the provisions of PESA apply.
4 Limits on spending
Administrative expenses up to 5% of annual receipts. Up to 10% of annual receipts may be kept as an endowment fund for sustainable livelihood after mining ends. No spending on works that duplicate a running government scheme in the same place.
5 Transparency and audit
A website with details of contributions, beneficiaries, works and meetings; an annual report placed before the State Legislature; annual audit; and social audit of works by the Gram Sabha.