MPLADS
MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT LOCAL AREA DEVELOPMENT SCHEME- Members of parliament local area development scheme is for development works and creation of durable community assets.individuals benefits and movable and non-durable assets are generally not allowed under this scheme. the emphasis is on creation of durable community assets based on locally felt awareness of roads, electricity , drinking water ,health and education .
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- The recommendations of the works are made by the members of parliament for the betterment of the community. these works are executed by district authorities in accordance with the respective state governments financial,technical and administrative rules.
- On 23rd December 1993 prime minister had announced the members of parliament local area development scheme.
- Initially the MPLADS was under the control of the Ministry of rural development.
- The scheme was transferred to the Ministry of statistics and Programme implementation in october 1994.
- The guidelines were subsequently revised in December 1994,Feb 1997, September 1999, April 2002, November 2005, August 2012 and lastly in May 2014.
- OBJECTIVE:
The objective of this scheme is to enable MPs to recommend works of developmental nature with emphasis on the creation durable community assets based on the locally felt needs to be taken up in their constituencies.
In 1993-94 when the scheme was launched , an amount of Rs. 5 lakh per member of parliament was alloted which became rupees one crore per annum per MP constituency from 1994-95. This was stepped up to Rs.2 crore from 1998-99 and now it is Rs. 5 crore from the financial year 2011-12.
The Ministry of statistics and programme Implementation has been responsible for the policy formulation, release of funds and prescribing monitoring mechanism for Implementation of the scheme.
A Department in each state /UT is designated as the Nodal Department with the overall responsibility of supervision, monitoring and coordination of the MPLADS implementation with the districts and other line departments .
The government of india informs the state nodal department about the MPLADS funds released to the district authorities . The district authorities report the status of MPLADS implementation to the government of india and state nodal department.
The MPLADS is a plan scheme fully funded by government of india .
The annual MPLADS fund entitlement per MP constituency is Rs 5 crore .
MPs are to recommend every year , works costings at least 15 percent of the MPLADS entitlement for the year for areas inhabited by schedule caste population and 7.5 per cent for areas inhabited by S.T population .
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