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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PM, many MPs haven’t spent a rupee from MPLAD fund -Swati Mathur

PM, many MPs haven’t spent a rupee from MPLAD fund -Swati Mathur

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published Published on Feb 2, 2015   modified Modified on Feb 2, 2015
-The Times of India

LUCKNOW: More than eight months after the 16th Lok Sabha was constituted, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his MP colleagues in the government, as well as most of the opposition MPs in the Lok Sabha have not utilized a single rupee from their designated MP Local Area Development fund.

According to data sourced by TOI from the ministry of statistics and programme implementation, MPs from only 10 out of 36 states in the country have started to use the MPLAD funds for developing their constituencies. While the cumulative, country-wide utilisation of funds released is a paltry 1.82% of the total amount, MPs from poll-bound Delhi, and also from Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Assam, among others, have sat on the government funds earmarked for development, without commissioning even a single work in their parliamentary constituencies.

From May 2014 until January 1, 2015, MPs have received a total of Rs 1,242.50 crore under the MPLAD scheme. Uttar Pradesh, with its 80 parliamentarians, PM Narendra Modi among them, has received the largest part of this share, Rs 197.50 crore as first tranche. But in six months since the fund was released, none of the MPs, 71 from BJP, 2 of Apna Dal, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi, and 5 MPs of Samajwadi Party, including Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, daughter-in-law Dimple, nephews Dharmendra and Akshay, and grand nephew Tej Pratap, could fund development works permitted under the scheme.

It is much the same in poll-bound Delhi, where all 7 MPs, all from BJP, have not found use for the Rs 2.5 crore released to them as first installment, or Maharashtra, Assam, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala, where MPs have registered zero utilization against funds released by the Government of India.

Under MPLAD, MPs are given the choice of suggesting to the district collector of a nodal district in their parliamentary constituency, development works worth Rs 5 crore per annum. The objective of the scheme is to create durable community assets based on locally felt needs, including those that strengthen drinking water facilities, primary education, public health, sanitation and roads.


The Times of India, 1 February, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/PM-many-MPs-havent-spent-a-rupee-from-MPLAD-fund/articleshow/46082217.cms


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