Panchayat Empowerment and Accountability Incentive Scheme (PEAIS)

It is a central sector scheme (100% funded) launched by Ministry of Panchayati Raj. It aims at incentivizing – (a) States for devolving funds, functions and functionaries (3Fs) to panchayats and (b) Panchayats to put in place accountability systems to make their functioning transparent and efficient.