COMPLAINTS UNDER MPLAD SCHEME
LOK SABHA
Some complaints
against the Collectors and implementing agencies under the Member
of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) have been
received from the Members of Parliament. The Collectors as well
as the implementing agencies are responsible for satisfactory
implementation of works taken up under MPLADS.
The complaints are
mainly about delay in processing of recommendations received by
District Authorities, delay in preparation of estimates by the
concerned implementing agencies, delay in issue of financial sanction
by the District Administrations, non-compliance of time frame
by the implementing agencies, delay in transfer of funds from
one district to another, non-submission of expenditure statement
by District Administrations to the Central Government, non furnishing
of information to the MPs by the District Administrations.
Instructions
have already been issued to all the District Collectors to accord
top priority to MPLAD scheme and follow the guidelines scrupulously.
Whenever specific complaints are received, the matter is immediately
taken up with the concerned State Governments/District Administrations
for investigation and remedial action.
The State Governments
have been advised from time-to-time to strictly follow the provisions
of the guidelines and implement works recommended by Members of
Parliament expeditiously. The District Administrations have been
advised to sanction works recommended by Members of Parliament
to the extent of their entitlement without waiting for actual
release of funds and submit the expenditure report expeditiously
so that entitled funds could be released by the Ministry.
The District Administrations
have also been advised to evolve a timeframe for implementation
keeping in view the nature of the works and follow the same strictly.
The State Governments/District Administrations have also been
advised to comply with the provision of monitoring of works as
per the guidelines on MPLADS and have review meetings at the level
of Chief Secretary. Special Review Meetings are being held from
time-to-time at the level of Minister of State (S&PI) to remove
the bottlenecks so as to ensure expeditious implementation of
works recommended.
Shri S.B.Mookherjee,
Minister of State for Statistics and Programme Implementation,
gave this information in a written reply to a question by Shri
Chandra Bhushan Singh and Shri K. Malaisamy in the Lok Sabha today.
