Budhist & Tibetan Culture Art
| Scheme for Financial Assistance for the Preservation and Development of Buddhist/Tibetan Culture and Art (Scheme Revised in October 2011) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Contact Details | Mr Yash Veer Singh (US), NAI Annexe, Building Janpath Phone: 23070790 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Objective | To give financial assistance to the voluntary Buddhist/Tibetan organizations including Monasteries engaged in the propagation and scientific development of Buddhist/Tibetan culture, tradition and research in related fields. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria for Grants | i. The voluntary Institutions/Organizations and Societies should be registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act (XXI of 1860) or similar Acts. ii. Only those Organizations which are mainly devoted to Buddhist/ Tibetan studies and have been functioning at least for the last three years will qualify for applying for a grant. iii. The Organization should be of regional or all-India character. iv. The grants will be ad-hoc and of a non-recurring nature. v. Grants from this scheme will be given only to those organizations which are not in receipt of grants from any other source for similar purposes. vi. Financial assistance may also be given for construction of hostel building, class rooms, school buildings and training centres. vii. Organizations which are doing good work in the field and having resources for meeting matching funds will be given preference. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Purpose and quantum of Assistance | Financial assistance is given for all or any of the items listed below upto a maximum of Rs.30.00 lakhs per year for any single organization. In case of the organizations of all-India character and running a school for imparting monastic education, the financial assistance may be given beyond the ceiling, on the recommendation of the Expert Advisory Committee and approved by the Minister (Culture) in consultation with the FA, Ministry of Culture.
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| Procedure for application | The organization shall submit complete application alongwith the following documents/information to judge the eligibility of the organization through the concerned State Government/UTs. The organisation, however, located in North Eastern States, Sikkim, Leh and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir are exempted to submit their applications direct to Ministry of Culture only with the recommendation of concerned District Collector/Dy. Commissioner.
i. Registration status of the organisation. ii. Whether as per Memorandum of Association the objectives and activities of organisation are related to promotion of Buddhist/Tibetan Art and Culture. iii. In case funds are sought for IT upgradation, transport facilities, civil construction, salary of teachers whether a Monastery, Monastic/Nunnery School exists/owned by the organisation. iv. Whether the organisation is capable of undertaking such projects. v. Recommend the activity/activities and the amount thereto. The Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Leh will act as ‘Help Window’, for the organisations located in Leh and Kargil districts of J & K. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mode of and Conditions for Release of Grants | a. Grant shall be given based on the appraisal of applications and recommendation by the Expert Advisory Committee and thereafter administrative approval and financial concurrence of competent authorities in the Ministry of Culture. b. Grants will be paid in two equal instalments, the first being normally released with the approval of the project. The second instalment will be released on receipt of duly audited statement of accounts showing the utilization of the entire amount of grant plus the share of the grantee/concerned State/U.T. Government and other documents on behalf of Chartered Accountant. The release of the balance of grant will be decided on the basis of the actual expenditure incurred on the project subject to the maximum limit. c. An organization in receipt of financial assistance under the scheme shall be open to inspection by an officer of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India or the State Government concerned. d. The accounts of the project shall be maintained properly and separately and submitted to the Government of India as and when required and will be subject to check by an officer of the Central Government or the State Government or by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India at his discretion. e. The organisation shall submit detailed break-up of expenditure under the head “Maintenance” in a separate annexure forming part of accounts. f. The grantee shall maintain : i. Subsidiary accounts of the grants-in-aid received from the Government. ii. Cash book Register in hand written bound books duly machine numbered. iii. Grant-in-aid Register for the grant received from the Government and other agencies. iv. Separate ledgers for each item of expenditure like construction of hostel building, etc. g. The organization shall maintain a record of all assets acquired wholly or substantially out of the Central Government grant and shall not dispose of or encumber or utilize for purposes other than those for which the grant was given without prior approval of the Government of India. h. If at any time, the Government of India has reason to believe that the sanctioned money is not being utilized for approved purposes, the payment of grant may be stopped and the earlier grants recovered. i. The organization must exercise reasonable economy in the working of the approved project. j. The grantee organization shall furnish to the Ministry of Culture a quarterly progress report of the project indicating in detail both the physical achievements and the expenditure incurred on each of the approved items separately. k. The organisations availing grant for civil works will not be eligible for the grant for similar purpose for the next ten years. l. The grantee shall furnish PWD completion certificate and photographic evidence for Civil Works. m. The grantee shall submit five copies of the Research Project. n. The grant for Repairs, restoration, renovation of Heritage Buildings associated with Buddhism is subject to certificate from Archaeological survey of India. An officer of appropriate level from ASI office/Circle concerned will be associated by the organisation for this activity. o. Applications against which previous grant/Utilisation certificate is pending will not be considered. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mode of Payment | All payments will be made through electronic transfers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outcome of the Scheme | A Performance-cum-achievement Report on the activity undertaken will be submitted in triplicate, duly bound, at the time of seeking second and final instalment to the Ministry and one copy to State Government/UT/Dy Commissioner concerned as per the following format: Scheme of Financial Assistance for the Development of Buddhist/Tibetan Culture and Art Performance-cum-achievement Report
Signature_____________ President/Secretary of organisation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Incomplete applications | Incomplete applications not supported by the required documents and applications received without recommendation of the prescribed authority will not be considered and summarily rejected. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Provision | The Expert Advisory Committee on the scheme is empowered to recommend or reject any proposal received without or with the recommendation of State Government/U.T. administration/ Local Administration and also to recommend the amount beyond the maximum limit but not exceeding Rs.1.00 crore from this scheme, in respect of any proposal which is of outstanding merit for which the EAC feels that the maximum limit would not be sufficient for undertaking the said project, with the approval of Minister (Culture) and concurrence of AS & FA, Ministry of Culture. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inspection and Monitoring | Inspection would be carried out by Ministry officials every year at least in 5% of the cases. The concerned State Govt/UTs Administration, District Collector/Dy Commissioner will also monitor. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penalties in case of misutilisation of Grants | The members of the executive body of the organisation would be liable for recovery of misused grants. The organisation will also be blacklisted for misuse of funds, fake registration certificate, etc. All immovable assets created from the Government grants would be taken over by local administration prescribed by the Ministry. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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