Appraisal and Approval of the Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSSs) and the Central Sector Schemes (CSs) is for their continuation over the next five years.
- The new five year cycle will start on 1st April 2026 and is aligned with the 16th Finance Commission (FC) cycle.
- There are 54 CSSs and 260 CSs which have their terminal date of approval till 31.03.2026 and are likely to be submitted for re-appraisal.
About appraisal and approval
- Mandated by: the 2016 Union Budget, each scheme must have a sunset clause and undergo outcome-based review before continuation.
- Evaluation by: The Development Monitoring Evaluation Organisation (DMEO) in NITI Aayog for CSSs and third-party agencies selected by the Ministries concerned for CSs.
- Significance: Remove redundancies and ineffective suboptimal interventions, merge schemes and close schemes which have either outlived their utility, enable optimum deployment of scarce public resources, etc.
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