He tops the list in the country with highest 90.5% utlisation of funds. Sonia and Rahul lag far behind with just 58.97% and 35.35%respectively.
As prime minister Manmohan Singh visits his constituency — Assam — on Friday, he has a lesson for MPs who crave for more local area development funds, but fail to utilise them.
Not only has he shown how to spend the money, Singh is way ahead of Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul in terms of utilising the MPLADS funds and offering bounties quietly to his the constituency.
He tops the list in the country with highest 90.5% utlisation of funds. Sonia and Rahul lag far behind with just 58.97% and 35.35%respectively.
Out of Rs40.5crore coming in his account as an MP, he has already released Rs35.05 crore for various works in Assam, out of which Rs31.73 crore have been already spent.
It is so because he not only releases funds, but also keeps track of the projects to ensure timely utilisation. Biswajit Daimery, another Rajya Sabha member from Assam, stands second at 90.4%.
On the eve of his visit, Singh has sanctioned Rs one crore from the MPLAD fund for the all-round development of Assam’s Morigaon town. The scheme includes construction of a modern auditorium, a training centre for self-help groups and construction of two municipal roads.
Parliament was recently informed that installments of MPLAD funds for 2011-12 are yet to be released to 196 nodal districts of 245 Lok Sabha MPs and 86 nodal districts of 123 Rajya Sabha MPs.
Under the MPLAD scheme, every MP is provided Rs5 crore every year for taking up development works and projects in his constituency.
Singh’s office is also directly monitoring 17 different projects worth Rs129crore sanctioned to Assam, since he assumed office in 2004.
These include battery operated buses, buildings for cultural activities, construction of bus sheds/stops for public transport passengers, community centres and other public works.
Singh has also asked the ministry of external affairs to conclude negotiations with Mayanmar for early completion of Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project.
The project worth Rs535.91 crore envisages connectivity between Indian ports on the eastern seaboard and Sittwe Port in Myanmar and through riverine transport and by road to Mizoram, thereby providing an alternate route for goods transport to North-East.
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