 bill no  53 of 2008 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2008 by shri kashiram rana, mp a billfurther to amend the constitution of indiabe  it enacted by parliament in the fifty-ninth year of the republic of india as follows:—short title1  this act may be called the  constitution (amendment) act, 2008 2 after article 279 of the constitution, the following new article shall be inserted, namely:—insertion of new article 279aadequate funds to states for carrying out central schemes''279a notwithstanding anything in this chapter, for all schemes announced by the union government for delivery of public services to the poor and for improvement in infrastructure, the state governments shall formulate provisions for meeting the specified objectives of such schemes and the union government shall guarantee to the states access to adequate funds required for the implementation of the schemes'' statement of objects and reasonsat present most financial powers and planning responsibility covering all states of the country is that of the central government the planning commission is responsible for approving state plans and deciding on actual flow of central plan assistance to different states from year to year the present system, with multiple party coalitions in power in different states, has become totally outdated there is urgent need to transfer more financial powers and higher responsibility to state in the conception as well as implementation of developmental programmes at present, all schemes for delivery of public services and for improvement in infrastructure are announced by the centre, but implementation is the responsibility of states the centre decides who will get what, and when, and under what conditions, but implementation is the responsibility of the states for example, the sarva shiksha abhiyan, rajiv gandhi drinking water mission, national rural health mission, national rural employment guarantee scheme, etc are all central schemes, but the implementation is with the state governments the central government blames the states for all failure and takes credit for all successes on the other hand, the states blame the centre for impractical rules and inadequate allocation of fundstherefore, it is essential to devolve powers on the states, to formulate provisions of the scheme to meet the specified objectives with guaranteed access to adequate fundsthe bill seeks to achieve the above objectivesnew delhi;kashiram ranajuly 14, 2008 financial memorandumclause 2 of the bill provide for provision of  adequate funds to state governments for implementation of schemes announced by the central government the bill, therefore, if enacted, would involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india for ongoing schemes of the central government the expenditure involved in the future schemes will be determined as per the parameters set for those schemes and the plans made by the respective state governments for meeting the objectives of the particular schemes it is estimated that at present a recurring expenditure of rupees ten thousand crore per annum will be involvedno non-recurring expenditure is likely to be involved lok   salok   sabhabha———— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india————(shri kashiram rana, mp)gmgipmrnd—3186ls(s5)—03102008