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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | UP hasn't spent Rs 220 crore for central scheme: Jairam Ramesh -Swati Mathur

UP hasn't spent Rs 220 crore for central scheme: Jairam Ramesh -Swati Mathur

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published Published on Jan 1, 2014   modified Modified on Jan 1, 2014
-The Times of India


LUCKNOW: Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday shot off another letter to the Akhilesh Yadav government, accusing it of having failed to spend money given under the central schemes. This is Jairam's sixth dispatch to the SP government since it came to power in March, 2012.

The letter to the chief minister focuses on the implementation of the Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP), a centrally-funded scheme whose objective is to restore the ecological balance by harnessing, conserving and developing degraded natural resources such as soil, vegetative covers and groundwater tables.

It says UP was promised development schemes worth Rs 2,830 crore under IWMP between 2009-10 and 2013-14 and challenges the state government's claim that the Centre had not provided funds. "A total of Rs 536 crore was released to UP, of which the state still has unspent balances of approximately Rs 220 crore. If the state government had implemented the scheme as promised, it could have sought additional funds of Rs 355 crore from the Centre," Jairam said.

Dismissing Akhilesh government's accusation that the Centre played partisan in releasing funds to UP, Jairam said the state's performance is critical in the overall success of the scheme. In his earlier missives, Jairam had maintained the Centre is only too eager to provide support, provided UP follows the prescribed norms for implementing the Central schemes.

A senior government functionary said, "All Government of India schemes are governed by a set of stringent norms. Fresh funds, for instance, can only be released when a state furnishes utilisation certificates as proof of work done. In UP, however, the impression is that the Centre should release the entire corpus in one instance. That is not done for any state, for the purpose of monitoring."

In March 2012, when Jairam visited Lucknow days after Akhilesh took over as CM, the two leaders decided to hold meetings once every two months to monitor the implementation of centrally-funded schemes in UP. But the meetings have not been held as planned.

The latest letter is also the first time that Jairam shifted focus from the implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in UP, for which he had been demanding a CBI inquiry, to IWMP, another flagship scheme for the UPA government.

The state government, on its part, has maintained that the scheme is in "various stages" of implementation and utilization certificates will be sent to New Delhi.


The Times of India, 1 January, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/UP-hasnt-spent-Rs-220-crore-for-central-scheme-Jairam-Ramesh/articleshow/28202549.cms


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