Draft operational guidelines of digital india land records modernization programme (dilrmp) introduction

4. IMPLEMENTATION
4.1 The State Governments/UT Administrations will implement the programme through their Project Management Units already set up under the Programme
4.2. The district will be taken as the unit of implementation, where all activities under the programme will converge. States/UTs will ensure that all districts shall complete all the components/ activities of the programme latest by 31.03.2020.
4.3 All the activities shall be taken up in a systematic manner. A diagrammatic depiction of the indicative nature of activities being/to be undertaken is provided at Annexure-GL-I. The States/UTs may suitably adapt them with suitable modifications as per their need with exercising proper re-engineering process involved, if any.
4.4 A mobilization advance of up to 30% will be released as the first installment to the States/UTs based on their approved annual action plan. Subsequent installments (out of remaining amount) will be released on reimbursement basis on the basis of entry of bills/vouchers furnished by the vendor on completion of different milestones of work which are entered in the Expenditure Advance Transfer (EAT) module of the Public Finance Management System (PFMS). All sanctions will be done on the basis of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs), which will be part of annual action plan prepared by the States / UTs in the prescribed Proforma.
4.5 All the States shall have to release corresponding share of the release corresponding to fund released by the Central Government upto 31.03.2016. Cent percent funds would be released to the Project Management Unit (PMU) established in the States for the purpose by Central Government w.e.f. 01.04.2016
4.6 States/UTs shall identify a nodal Department for implementing the DILRMP. This Department must, in turn, put in place a Programme Management Unit (PMU) under the charge of an officer not below the rank of Secretary to oversee the DILRMP in its entirety. This PMU will ensure coordination among all concerned Departments as well as among the various units of the implementing Department. For each activity under this Programme, the duties and responsibilities of officials as well as of the vendors, if any, must be listed out in detail in harmony, as far as possible, with the Guidelines and also be intimated to the DoLR. The PMU must ensure that milestones and timeframes, as well as physical and financial achievements, are monitored on a regular basis and online data are uploaded.
4.7 PMU will receive funds from Govt. of India and shall follow the procedure/rules and will implement Public Financial Management System (PFMS) including Expenditure, Advance & Transfer (EAT) module and onboarding of vendors on the module from time to time.