The new guidelines drafted by the Government for implementation of the Jawahar Gram Samridhi essentially lays down the criteria and procedure for allocation and release of resources. It has now been decided that the central assistance would be allocated to the States/UTs on the basis of proportion of rural poor in a State to the total poor in the country or as per the criteria to be decided by the Government or the National Development Council from time to time.The poverty estimates prepared by the Planning Commission would be used for this purpose.