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How MPs spend their funds: there’s good and bad news -Samarth Bansal

-The Hindu What do our MPs do with the funds they have been given to spend on their constituencies? Every year, MPs are allotted Rs. 5 crore under the MPLAD (Member of Parliament Local Area Development) Scheme, primarily to take up development projects in their respective constituencies. The fund has been increased over time, starting from Rs. 5 lakh in 1993-94 to Rs. 5 crore at present. As per the data provided by...

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55 per cent of Lok Sabha MPs spent nothing on constituencies -Gangadhar S Patil

-IndiaSpend.org As many as 298 of 542 Lok Sabha members have not spent a single rupee of the annual Rs 5 crore that is set aside for constituency development A year after they took office, 298 of 542 members of the 16th Lok Sabha – India’s lower house of Parliament – have not spent a rupee from the Rs 5 crore that is set aside annually for them to develop their constituencies,...

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8 Centrally Sponsored Schemes Delinked from Support of the Centre

-Press Information Bureau/ Ministry of Finance The plan outlay of 2015-16 reflects the compositional shift in the allocations for various Programmes and Schemes in view of high devolution; 42% of Union Taxes, to States as per the recommendation of 14th Finance Commission. Making his Budget Speech while presenting the General Budget 2015-16, the Finance Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley said that consequent to this substantially higher devolution, many schemes on the State...

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

-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...

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MPs funds to now be used to develop over 2,000 ‘model’ villages -Jitendra

-Down to Earth Ministry of rural development will channelise MPs' funds through different schemes for Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to restructure the existing Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme in a holistic way. He launched the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) on Saturday, under which2,379 model villages will be developed across the country in the next five years. There are 793 Members of Parliament...

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