Government of West Bengal
Department of Planning
Joint Administrative Building
HC-7, Sector III, Salt Lake,
Kolkata 700106
Memo No.2/APAS/202 Date: 26thJuly 2025
MEMO RAND UM
The State Government has announced the launch of "Amader Para, Amader
Samadhan" campaign (APAS), a unique flagship initiative aimed at institutionalising
participatory governance and re-imagining grassroot service delivery through people-
engagement and empowerment covering 80,000+ polling booths across the state.
It has been decided that the local administration will undertake an exercise whereby,
on an average, 3 polling booths will be clustered for holding one APAS Camp. The total
number of camps to be organised in the State under the campaign will be approximately
around 27,000. However, depending on local geography and convenience of the people, the
local administration may decide to cluster a smaller or larger number of polling booths for
scheduling APAS Camps;
Under this initiative, people will be invited to attend APAS camps to deliberate on
and play an active role in identifying and prioritizing the resolution of small but crucial
infrastructure gaps/issues in their own locality affecting their daily lives by implementing
schemes with the fund allocated to the booth; transforming governance from a top - down
model to a collaborative, people-led process; and
Additionally, it has also been decided that the applications for various individual
beneficiary schemes under Duare,Sarkar will also be received in these APAScamps.
The timeline to be adhered to for undertaking the various activities under APAS has
been fixed as follows:
Details of Program Period of implementation
Holding of APAS Camps for public interactions 2"0 August to 3ra November 2025,
including meetings, booth level discussions for excluding Sundays and all public
finalising list of prioritised schemes to be undertaken holidays including Durga Puja and
at the community level including receipt of Kali Puja etc.
applications under individual benefit schemes
through Duare Sarkar
Administrative review and project finalisation of By I51"November 2025
prioritized schemes
On-grounding & completion of schemes that have By I 5th January 2026.
come through APAS meetings and Service Delivery
of Applications received under Duare Sa"rkar
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APAS will be supported by a robust IT portal capturing all important stages of the
campaign. SOP for IT requirements including trainings in this respect will be conducted by
the State IT team.
Communication strategy / !EC Plan for APAS will be done centrally by the
Information and Cultural Affairs Department, Government of West Bengal to be followed by
all field offices.
Implementation SOP for APAS will be shared by the State APAS Task Force.
Separate Government Order regarding fund flow and procedural issues including manner of
utilisation of funds under APAS will be issued subsequently.
The entire Government machinery including infrastructure, IT resources, logistics &
Human resources as deemed necessary will be deployed for ensuring the success of the
campaign. Planning and Statistics Department will be the Nodal Department for APAS.
Vide Notification No. l/APAS/2025 dated 26thJuly 2025, committees/ task forces at
various levels including State Level Apex APAS Committee headed by the Chief Secretary,
Government of West Bengal, District Level APAS Task Force headed by the District
Magistrate and SDO/ Block level APAS Task Forces headed by the SDO/ BOO respectively
etc. have been constituted for the smooth implementation of APAS.
All concerned officials are to take action for the smooth roll out of the campaign to
ensure the desired outcomes of the APAS are achieved within the timelines and as per the
various orders and guidelines issued in this regard.
This order will come into effect immediately.
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