Pathey Trust’s

Activity Report for

2016(March) to 2017(March)) for Project Budget Work in India: Advancing and Promoting Transparent, Accountable

and Inclusive Governance

Working Office

Phone: +91-79-26306557

Website : www.pathey.in

Regd Office: 7, Mangaldeep Flats, Near Parikshit Bridge, P.O Gandhi Ashram, Ahmedabad-380027

Pathey Budget Center G-2, Arbudha Apartment,

Near Gangotri Society, Old Passport Office Road Gulubai Tekra Road Ahmedabad-380006

Email : Patheya.budget@hotmail.com / info@pathey.in

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Pathey Trust’s Activity Report

March, 2016 to March 2017 Back ground: Pathey……. Food for thought on Struggle Journey for Social Justice

About Pathey:- Pathey was registered in year 1993 and has pursued the pioneering work of Budget analysis, Goveranace and Advocacy work to further the cause of vulnerable and deprived sections of the society, to ensure Social Justice and Development and to create a debate over the financial allocations for the weaker sections of society and its impact over the development process. Pathey has been analysing the state, district, tehsil and national budget. Pathey analysis is focused upon the issues of Adivasis, Dalits, women, children, people with disability, NT-DNT, workers of unorganized sector, and other backwards classes. Pathey also works for capacity building of elected members and members of civil society organization for budget literacy. Pathey help by providing budgetary information to the members of civil society for strengthening their advocacy work. It organizes the training programmes for the elected representatives at (Panchayat level) to make them aware on financial allocation and spending, so that the village level elected representative can make budget for their villages and also ensure benefits of schemes to their village citizens from various schemes. One of the objectives of Pathey is to be a resource center for elected members, civil society, issue based organizations and networks, journalists, and academicians for providing information on budget, policy analysis, governance related issues for wider discussions and application of resources for change. Vision To ensure social justice and development, and to foster debates over financial allocations of the government for the poor and marginalized communities through, Empowerment, Capacity building, Budget Research and Advocacy process for transparent, accountable governance. Mission Creating multiple centers for Demystifying state budgets to facilitate understanding of public finance from the perspective of vulnerable section of society like (Adivasis, Dalits, women and children and disadvantageous communities.) and facilitate advocacy process for right based policy by sharing research knowledge, capacity building of people for seeking accountable governance. Strategy Pathey is Budget analysis and Research based advocacy and educational organization engaging at various levels with stake holders like elected representatives, policy makers, civil society groups, voluntary organizations, academicians, communities and media through dissemination, education and capacity building. The interventions are focused around empowerment, social justice, and good governance for the vulnerable section of society.

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Pathey Trust’s Narrative Report (March, 2016 to March 2017) for Project

Budget Work in India: Advancing and Promoting Transparent, Accountable and Inclusive Governance

Transparency, Accessibility and Availability of Budget Data: Sharing of Budget Analysis and Data

During the month of March, in year 2016 and 2017, the state government presents its annual budget for the next fiscal year. We (Pathey Trust) prepared budget brief write ups on several departments’ (as indicated in the table A) demands on grants. The budget write ups provides budgetary information pertaining to department’s demand with previous years’ trends, un spent utilization, variation from previous year, along with development outcomes and indicators, comparison with other states. The budget write ups are in simple language. We prepared Budget write ups on 13 Departments and 3 write ups on macroeconomic, and state’s priorities and investment of public resources for social sector development in Gujarat. The budget briefs are distributed among the legislatures and media people one day before the actual discussion in the assembly, so that they have budget information. One of the objectives is to provide budgetary information to elected members, media people and general public for wider dissemination of budget and policy matters for having informed discussion.

Pathey has been disseminating the brief budget write-ups along with comments and analysis (one day before the actual discussion in the assembly) to the elected members (MLAs) to facilitate understanding of budget expenditure (Previous years) and outlay for the next year. As the budget books are bulky full with numbers (which indicates budget expenditure and outlay for government’s functions). The budget is presented in a technical terminology, one requires certain skills to demystify and comprehend the figures, these figures are not mere number but unfold many stories of giving privileges to certain sections of society, denying and deprivation of due share from state exchequers to some sections, these numbers tells priority of the state government for future year, whom state intends to take forward by providing budgetary acceleration. Pathey has been distributing the budget write-ups to legislatures, (as they are the legitimate entity to discuss and legislate the budget in the assembly house, as being the representative of citizens), so that legislatures can participate in the debates as they have readymade accurate information of state budget of every department. When they discuss the budget expenditure and outlay, they also discuss the performances of budget expenditure; this process of discussion brings many issues on the surface, where the state government has to respond to the legislatures concerns. The discussion on performances of department with budgetary information also creates some kind of pressure over the executives to perform better, as the performance are discussed and comments on poor performance is also aired. This in a way leads to accountability of executives and legislatures, when it is discussed in the assembly house by the legislatures, entire media also take note of it. The write-ups are available on Pathey web www.pathey.in Here are some of stories about budget discussion and information appeared in print media, who used Pathey’s budget write ups for their reporting during the state’s Assembly’s Budget Session 2017. Media Coverage to Pathey’s Budget Brief in 2017

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Here we have selected reports from Gujarati Newspaper namely Sandesh, DNA ,Gujarat Samachar, Nav Gujarat Samay and Divya Bhaskar only. The Department wise Budget Write up are available at http://www.pathey.in/demand-ongrants-departments.html

Sr. Department 1 Education Dept -2016-17

2 Finance Department -2016-17

3 General Administration Department 2016-17

4 Health and Family welfare -2016-17

5 Women and Child Development Dept-2016-17

6 General Discussion I

7 General discussion II

8 General discussion III

9 Home Departmentt-2016-17

10 Labour and Employment 2016-17

11 Legal Dept-2016-17

12 Narmada Water Resource and Kalpsar Dept 2016-17

13 Revenue Department-2016-17

14 SCSP-2016-17

15 Social Justice Empowerment (Social Welfare)

16 TASP- 2016-17

During the state’s budget session for 2017-18, we wrote budget brief for 14 departments and 3 General discussions. The budget brief write ups were also distributed among the media to facilitate their understanding on budget so that; they could also write and have informed discussion.

Sr. Department 1 General Discussion Part I 2 General Discussion Part II 3 General Discussion Part III 4 Education Department-2017-18 5 TASP-2017-18 6 Women and Child Development Department-2017-18 7 SCP-2017-18 8 Social Justice and Empowerment Department -2017-18 9 Labour and Employment Department -2017-18

10 Legal Department -2017-18 11 Home Department -2017-18 12 Urban Development and Urban Housing Department -2017-18 13 Health and Family Welfare Department-2017-18 14 General Administration Department-2017-18 15 Narmada Water Resource and Kalpsar Department-2017-18 16 Industries and Mines Department-2017-8 17 Finance Department -207-18

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Strengthening People’s Participation:

1. Pre-Budget Consultations:

We have organized two pre-budget consultations one at Ahmedabad on 25th October, 2016 and

one at Vyara Tapti District (for Adivasi Asks

in State Budget) on 8th November, 2016.

The Ahmedabad Pre-Budget consultation was attended 65 participants (Civil society members, Academicians, Activists and Others). The focus area of discussion was Gujarat state’s development process and priority of public finances for achieving the goals of development mainly quality primary education for all, improvement in health care services and access to free medicines, recruitment of doctors at primary and community health centers, improvement of family welfare services in the tribal areas, social security for all workers of un-organised sector, agricultural workers, construction workers and salt pan workers, allocation for occupational diseases for

factory workers. Besides, the consultation also recommended to enhance the budgetary allocation and expenditure under Gender budget to empower the women and girl child, legislation for implementing TASP and SCP strategy for development and welfare of the Adivasis and Dalits, there was also recommendation for enhancing the transparency in the state budget and

implementation and the information should be made accessible to the citizens through government websites. We had invited various resources persons working actively with the issues like Adivasis, Dalits, women and children, workers of un-organised sectors, Health and Education issues and others. Each session was moderated by an academician and presentation made by the subject experts followed by the open discussion for suggesting the policy and budget related demands for the 2017-18 budget. The pre-budget consultation held at Vyara was focused upon on Adivasi issues and policy matters, where the participants were mainly community members, members of civil society and others. The Vyara Pre- budget consultation was attended by around 85 participants.

After these two Pre-budget consultations, Pathey Trust prepared the charter of demands with incorporating the budgetary trends, development indicators and expectation on policy asks from

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the next budget 2017-18. The charters of demands were also submitted to the concerned department’s Minister, Principal Secretary, and other relevant officials like commissioner. Please find copy of Charter of Demands here

The state government’s some of departments have responded to the charter of demands by acknowledging the charter of demands and also positively taken policy decision and addressed in the budget 2017-18, as indicated below, one of the charter of demands under “ Enhancing the transparency in state budget was that the state should issue ‘The Outcomes Budget” for each department, the state government issued the document on outcomes budget 2017-18. Besides, there are some more charter of demands get reflected in departments’ budget, we will prepare the detail report on it.

We have received some responses from the Department of Finance and Labour Departments.

Pathey Demand No.4 Department’s Response Government Issued Outcomes Budget 4. The state should also publish the Outcome Budgets of the Administrative Departments, providing statistical information of administrative department’s activities and Target set and achievement made during the financial year.

We also received response from Department of Labour and Employment for the social security of un-organised sectors’ workers and Construction workers for necessary action, please see the annexure E & F

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Strengthening People’s Participation:

2.1 Awareness and Mobilization:

The Budget Analysis work should help people and activists, grass root movements, issue based organizations in helping and building their capacities for strengthening their advocacy efforts. During the last seven months Pathey was approached by several organizations, movements and campaign to conduct the capacity building training programmes on budget analysis.

Promoting the Budget Analysis work among Civil Society Members: Pathey Trust as its endeavor, has been promoting the Budget analysis work among the civil society organizations, academicians, students, journalists, elected members and others by sharing the budget analysis work, orientation and capacity building for doing the budget analysis. Pathey conducted four capacity building and orientation workshops at Himmatnagar, Anand, Amreli and Rajkot for the members of civil society to orient them about Budget analysis and tracking the budgetary schemes in their respective areas. The training workshops were held at new places to increase the outreach of Pathey’s budget analysis work and promote the budget analysis and advocacy work in the Saurashtra region. The response to budget analysis orientation has been quite encouraging; the civil society members from remote places have never been acquainted with budget work. The content of workshop is according the kind of issues the civil society organization is working with; like at Himmatnagar, participants were working with issues of tribal empowerment and development, therefore, the training content was basic understanding of budget components of analysis and focus on Gujarat General Budget and TASP (Tribal Area Sub Plan). Similarly at Rajkot, the members were engaged with empowerment and development of Schedule Castes. The focus of training was on understanding of the SCSP (Schedule Caste Component Plan). The third training was held at Anand (Kheda) focusing on Health and Nutrition budget and indicators. The Amreli training was first attempt in that region to introduce the participants to budget work.

Training Workshop Details

Sr. Date Venue/place Participants Participants 1 16th Dec 2016 Himatnagar Pathey Trust 64

2 31st Dec 2016 Anand Pathey Trust & Tribhuvandandas

Foundation Anand 69

3 20th Jan 2017 Rajkot Pathey Trust & Lokhit Trust,

Rajkot 47

4 25th Jan 2017 Amreli Pathey Trust & SSKK (Shikshan

Ane Samaj Kalyan Kendra) 27

Pathey Trust makes alliance with local lead organizations to conduct the budget analysis training work.

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Capacity Building Training workshop at Himmatnagar Capacity Building Training workshop at Anand

Capacity Development and Facilitation of Budget Analysis. Pathey has been approached by issue based organizations to give detailed case study and presentation on the various themes to understand the application of budget analysis for awareness, tracking, and capacity building for research and advocacy. During the last year, Pathey Trust facilitated budget orientation and training on Gender Budget, Minority Budget, Budget for SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). Date Place Subject Organized by Target Group

1 28th April, 2016 Ahmadabad Gender Budget SPIPA (SIRD)

Govt and NGO Officials

2 25th September, 2016 Ahmedabad

Budget for Minorities Rahenuma CSJ

CSJ’s activists

3 12/13th October, 2016

Netrang , Narmada District

Understanding Budget AKRSP (State budget) AKRSP

AKRSP’s Staff

4 27/28th November, 2016 Ahmadabad SDGs WNTA and CSJ

NGO workers

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5th March, 2017 Ahmedabad Stock Taking of RTE RTE Forum Gujarat

Civil society organization associated with RTE.

SIRD (State Institute for Rural Development) invited Pathey to conduct a session on Gender Budget for the government officials and members of civil society organizations for understanding the concept of gender budget and check list for formulating the budget proposal under the local development progarmmes with Gender Lens.

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Pathey Trust also jointly facilitated workshop on SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) with CBGA, the workshop was organized by Wada Na Todo Abhiyan and CSJ (Center for Social Justice). The focus of workshop was to understand Public provision for social development and the existing social development indicators in Gujarat. Pathey Trust also facilitated the budget analysis training for the activists of Rehenuma Project for capacitating the activists to understand the budgetary process and tracking budget to provide benefits to the Minority communities from the state budget. Pathey Trust also conducted two budget analysis training programme for the staff members of AKRSP at Netrang campus to orient the basic of budget terminology for understanding the budget processes, reading budgetary numbers, budget analysis, linking the budget with issues and outcomes of development and TASP (Tribal Area Sub Plan), as the organization works for development of tribal communities and tribal areas. A presentation on status of education delivery under RTE was presented at RTE Forum Gujarat, highlighting the gaps in teachers, class rooms and budgetary provisions in 2017-18. Besides, the quality of education, transition rate from primary to upper primary and secondary was also discussed. Engaging with Academic Institutions for Budget work: Pathey has been pursuing to make alliances with academic and research institutions for sharing and learning the budget analysis works. During the last year, Pathey was invited by PDPU (Pandit Deen Daya Petroleum University) for presenting the paper on Public provisioning for the Child Budget in Gujarat, IIPH (Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar with collaboration of UNICEF Gujarat invited Pathey to present paper on Investment for Tribal Children in Gujarat. similarly, Paper was also presented on TASP Budget and Tribal development in Gujarat at Tribal Research and Training Institute, Gujarat Vidhyapith. Date Place Subject Organised by

1 22nd April, 2016 PDPU Gandhinagar Child Budget in

Gujarat PDPU University ,

Gandhinagar

2 6th June , 2016 IIM, Ahmedabad. Public Investment for

Tribal Children in Gujarat.

IIPH (Indian Institute of Public Health,

Gandhinagar.

3 9th August, 2016

TRTI(Tribal Research and Training Institute,

Gujarat Vidyapith

TASP Budget and Tribal Development

TRTI (Tribal Research and Training Center),

Ahmedabad.

4 27th

September, 2016

Vaso college, Kheda

Understanding the Public Finance for

Development in Gujarat (College)

students)

Vaso College , Kheda-Anand

5 6th January, 2017 Khedbrahma

“Role of State and Federal Finance for

Economic Development in

Gujarat

GEA(Gujarat Economic

Association) Forum of Academics in

Economic

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• Vaso College in Kheda district invited for their students of Economic and Commerce to facilitate understanding the Public finance for social development in Gujarat state in last five years.

• Gujarat Economic Association invited Pathey Trust to its 47th Annual Conference to

present Key paper on “Role of state and federal finance for economic development in Gujarat”, on 6th January, 2017. The paper highlighted the various aspects of Gujarat’s public Finance priority for the social and economic development and recommendations.

Deepening of the Budget work at ULB and PRI Level Pathey Trust has been pursuing the its horizon on deepening of budget from state to Urban and Panchayat level budget by analysis and also imparting training to other organizations for tracking and also generating awareness among the community members. Urban Budget and Governance: Gujarat state is rapidly urbanizing state due to state’s positive push for it and also increasing industrialization in the state. The state government has been facilitating the urbanization process by spending huge budgetary allocation coupled with private participation; by the next Census-2021, it seems, in Gujarat every 2nd citizens will be living in urban area. The Urban local bodies have substantial its own financial and administrative resources, the citizens in urban areas have to access all the amenities from ULB, therefore, citizens’ participation in governance and budget analysis is essential to have inclusive process. Pathey Trust study and prepared a presentation incorporating the budgetary allocations, which directly benefits the community members. The workshop was conducted for the HDRC (Human Development Resource Center)’s core team, working with urban issues. The budget analysis workshop on Ahmedabad Budget helped the team members to understand the budgetary provisions and also generate awareness among the community members for better implementation. Besides, Pathey also facilitated training for understanding the Urban Budget for the team members and community members of SXSSS (Saint Xavier Social Service Society). We also provided budgetary information of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s Sanitation budget to civil society members working with issues of Safai workers to help them to understand the budgetary provisions for sanitation work and their wages. Pathey also facilitated the training workshop for the partners of IGSSS (Indo German Social Service Society) to understand the urban budget and governance and incorporate the urban budget analysis in tracking and better implementation of budgetary provision for urban poor’s

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and slum dwellers in their respective city (Ahmedabad, Surat, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai and Vizag). Besides Pathey Trust also made presentation for the Urban Governance Network for focusing the AMC budget for the poor and slum dwellers to give overview of AMC budgetary provisions not getting utilized for them (which directly benefits the poor like, health care, nutrition, education, water sanitation, street lights, and other basic amenities. Pathey Trust also conducted orientation on urban governance for the elected members of Bhuj Nagar Pallika (Bhuj Municipality Corporation in Kachchh district). The elected members were elected last year and many of them were first time elected. The Urban Setu (KMVS, Kutch Mahila Vikas Sanghathan) works with Municipalities of some urban centers in Kutch on Urban Governance issues.

Sr. Date Place Subject/Theme Organised by Participants 1 26th April, 2016 Ahmadabad AMC Budget HDRC Slum Dwellers 2 16/17th

November 2016 Ahmadabad IGSS Urban Governance IGSS IGSS Partners

3 24th November, 2016 Ahmadabad AMC Budget SXSSS+HDRC

Community Members

4 10th December, 2016 Ahmedabad

Participatory Urban Governance in Ahmedabad

Urban Governance Network

Urban civil society members and CEPT

Panchayat Raj Governance: Pathey Trust has been generating awareness about the Panchayat Raj governance in few villages in Himmatnagar block in Sabarkantha and Vyara in Tapi district in tribal areas. The focus area has been to generate awareness among the village people for participating in the Gram sabha meetings and raising the issues of general amenities like water availability, construction of pucca roads, street light, proper drainage and sanitation, besides, opening of NREGA works, inclusion to access the benefits of various development and welfare programmes. The participants are informed about tracking and monitoring the food security progarmmes like PDS (Public Distribution System), ICDS for their kids, Mid Day Meal for their school going children, besides, also accessing the health care services from Village Sub Center and Primary Health Center. Apart from above mentioned, the village members are capacitated to organize the Ward wise meeting and discuss the basic amenities in their respective ward and pass resolution demanding it from Gram Panchayat. The ward wise resolutions passed are submitted to Gram Panchayat to incorporate in their Annual village development plan for seeking budgetary resources. The experiences of last year, has been quite encouraging and some development work has happened. Pathey was also approached by AKRSP (Aga Khan Rural Support Programme-Gujarat) for facilitating training for the freshly elected members of Sagbara Block Panchayat and Narmada District Panchayat for orientation of budgetary process so that they could take active part in budget formulation process.

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Sr. Date Place Subject/Theme Organised by Participants

1 9th April, 2016 Surat District Agriculture Budget SUMUL Dairy , Surat Small and Marginal Farmers 2 18th October,

2016 Sagbara, Narmada District

AKRSP (Narmada Budget) AKRSP

Elected members of Sagbara Block in Narmada

Awareness about Agricultural budget One day workshop was organized by Gujarat Khedut Samaj, where Pathey Trust made comprehensive presentation on provisioning for budget from Gujarat state Budget and the Union Budget. The office bearers of Cooperative society organized the workshop for the cooperative society to understand the budget proposals and financial allocation for agriculture and allied activities to access the benefits of various schemes for promoting the agricultural productivity. The farmers were provided information about the budget and various schemes for enhancing the farm productivity by accessing the benefits and entitlements of various schemes. In last nine months, Pathey conducted or facilitated 10 capacity development workshops on budget and application of budget analysis.

Awareness and Mobilization for Health Rights:

Pathey Trust Activity with JSA partners:Pathey Trust also facilitated the training on Health budget for the JSA members under Campaign for Health Rights. 1st two days’ training workshop was held on 30th May at Ahmedabad; Mr. Ravi Duggal a Health Budget Expert also facilitated the training session along with Mahender, Pathey Trust. The participants were oriented towards the state’s health budget from various departments (TASP, SCP) and Health and Family welfare Department; besides, budgetary trends for Rural, Urban helath care services, under various health care services providing units like PHCs, CHCs, Hospitals. The participants were also oriented toward new announcements made by the state government for free medicines from government stores and hospitals, free diagnosis for cervical and breast cancers and others.

Date Place Participants Subject 30th May, 2016 Ahmedabad JSA members State Health and Nutrition Budget 9th September, 2016 Ahmedabad JSA District PIP

29th November, 2016 Vadodara JSA Pre-Budget Consultation for Health care Demands

15th February, 2017 Vyara, Tapi JSA Awareness on Health Rights 18th February, 2017 Patan JSA Awareness on Health Rights

10th April, 2017 Rajkot JSA Awareness on Health Budget for 2017-18, JSA’s demands for Health, Access to Medicines

18th April, 2017 Godhara JSA Awareness on Health Budget for 2017-18, JSA’s demands for Health, Access to Medicines

21 and 22nd Post Budget Consultation with JSA Members Vadodara JSA

Discussion on NHP-2017(New Health Policy-2017), Gujarat Health Policy-2016 and Budget for Health and Family welfare -2017-18 Planning for activities.

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The 2nd workshop was held on 9th September focused upon the district PIP (Project Implementation Plan), the government officials from Health department, particularly. NHM (National Health Mission), those who are in charge of preparing are implementing the activities of NHM. The facilitation by state’s NHM project team also helped in building the rapport with them for future engagement.

Printing and Publication

Publication of Newsletter:

During the last year, we published three newsletters for disseminating the budget analysis and research outputs. The one newsletter was exclusively focused upon on Health care and budget in Gujarat state; and another newsletter was focused upon Education Budget and Nutrition budget. The third newsletter was published in Marc, 2017 providing the budgetary provisioning information for 2017-18 budget at macro level focusing on development indicators of the state. These newsletters are uploaded on Pathey’s website. The newsletters were distributed among the members of civil society organizations, media people, academicians and government officials.

Research work: We have conducted research work on Health care status and budget in Gujarat taking budgetary expenditure trends for last ten years; besides Health care, we have also conducted research Education, Nutrition, Investment for Tribal Children in Gujarat state and Status of Gujarat Macro-economics in context of 14th Finance Commission’s recommendation for higher devolution and state’s priority for social sector development. The summary of the research papers is uploaded on Pathey website. A Research paper on “Role of State and Federal Finance

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for Economic Development in Gujarat” was also prepare for Annual conference of Gujarat Economic Association.

Public Investment for Health Care in Gujarat

Public Investment for Elementary Education in Gujarat

Public Investment for Nutrition in Gujarat

Copies of Policy Brief are available here Data Portal: Pathey also entered with partnership with CBGA led PBI (People’s Budget Initiative) for collecting and compiling data sheets for Gujarat based Municipal Corporations namely Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Junagadh and Gandhinagar city. The data sheet has last five years’ budgetary data for Revenue Receipt, Revenue Expenditure, Capital Receipt and Capital Expenditure. The Budget documents for Municipal Corporations are not easily available in the public domain, even though, the corporation have their own website and interface with citizens for tax collection and registering the complaints for getting the basic services. we interacted with the budget divisions of Municipal Corporations for acquiring the budget documents. In the process, Municipal corporations uploaded the budget documents in their respective website. There is scope to work at Municipal Corporation for governance, as with rapid urbanization, more and more people will be in urban centers, besides, Urban local bodies particularly, the Municipal Corporation have their own resources and authority to raise the financial resources with state’s legislation backing. The Municipal Corporation budget presentation is at very nascent stage, where the budgetary process needs a manual to make uniform format for all Municipal Corporations, as state governments’ formats. There is scope for advocacy with state and Corporation level to adhere the Municipal Corporation’s Manual for presetting the budget, bring more transparency in the budget process by keeping budget documents in the public domain, making budgetary process more participatory by involving the citizens in preparing ward wise budget. The Municipal Corporation’s staff engaged in Budget division needs to be imparted training for making budgetary process and presentation robust, as the municipal corporations’ budget sizes are also getting bigger in size.

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Constraints faced: Delay in approval of proposal and receipt of grants constrained many field based and programmatic activities. Pathey Trust opted for fewer budgets than the approved. We did not conduct capacity building up activities around budget at village Panchayat level due to the Village Panchayat elections to be held in December, 2016; and the newly elected members took charge only in the last week of January, 2017. We focused on Pre Budget consultation and preparation of Charter of demands and submitted at the appropriate time. We rather concentrated on research work on Education, Nutrition, Health care etc. We collaborated with civil society organizations and utilized research output for building their capacity for budget analysis for their advocacy and understanding. Transparency Compliance:

Gender disaggregate data of staff members

Gender Paid full time Male 2 Female - Total 2

Salary structure Distribution of staff according to Salary (April, 2016) Salary plus benefits paid to staff No of staff members

8000-10000 0 10001-15000 0 15001-25000 1 25001-45000 1

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Registration and Legal status Registration under the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950

PATHEY TRUST

Registartion Number E 9425 Ahemdabad. FCRA (Prior Permission) No.II/21022/94(0395-02)/2009-FCRA-III Address of Registered Office PATHEY TRUST

7,Mangaldeep Flats, Nr. Parikshit Bridge, P.O. Gandhi Ashram Post, Ahmedabad-27

Working Office G-2, 2nd Floor, Arbudha Apartment, Near Gangotri Society, Gulubai Tekra Road, Old Passport Area, Ahemdabad-380006 Email: patheya.budget@hotmail.com Web: www.pathey.in

Auditors Chandervadan Shah & co. Charterd Accountants 801,A,Sahajanand Complex, Shahibaug Road, Ahmedabad-380004.

Banker State Bank Of India Sabarmati, Ahmedabad.380056

Our Partner NFI(National Foundation for India), New Delhi.

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