The District Planning Committee (DPC) has called on local bodies to submit their Annual Plans and secure its clearance by May 30.
The DPC meeting held here on Tuesday also told the local bodies that the carried over projects in 2014-15 should be completed by September 30. The meeting observed that the local self-government institutions were lagging behind in submitting new projects.
The DPC meeting would be held once a week to change this, it was decided.
Cumulative utilisation of funds by all the 81 grama panchayats in Kannur was 70.42 per cent.