"The Centrally-sponsored schemes should be given on annual Block Grant basis (block grant funding is distributed on a formula basis.) This is because current Gadgil-Mukherjee formula is disadvantageous for a developed state like Goa and needs to be reviewed," Parsekar said.
He was talking to reporters after returning from Delhi where he participated in a meeting of CMs called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday to discuss formation of new body in place of the Planning Commission.
"For instance, if a Union minister is from Bihar obviously he will think from the perspective of his own state. That is of no benefit for the smaller states like Goa," he said.
The benefits of schemes like Prime Minister's Gram Sadak Yojna cannot be extended to states like Goa, considering the parameters required to qualify for the grants, Parsekar said.
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He said the current government can think from the perspective of states because Prime Minister Narendra Modi had himself served as a chief minister.
The Gadgil formula, on the allocation of state resources, was based on schematic patterns. It was named after the then deputy chairman of the Planning Commission Dr. D R Gadgil and adopted in 1969.
Due to reservations of state governments on revision of the formula, a committee under Pranab Mukherjee, the then Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, was constituted to evolve a suitable formula.
The Gadgil-Mukherjee Formula, adopted by consensus in 1991, was made the basis for allocation during 8th Five Year Plan (1992-97) and has since been in use.