MPLADS fund: 14 MPs from Assam get the highest share, shows data

Only Rs 4,307.5 crore of the Rs 6,216 crore entitled to parliamentarians were disbursed

Nearly a third of the entitled amount under the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) remained undisbursed in the first four years of the tenure of the current Lok Sabha.

This was revealed by Minister of State (Indepe­ndent Charge) for Statistics and Programme Impleme­ntation Rao Inderjit Singh in Parliament last week. Accor­ding to a Business Standard analysis of close to 500 parliamentarians from 21 states and Union Territories, only Rs 4,307.5 crore of the Rs 6,216 crore entitled to them was disbursed during the period.

Under the scheme, elected and nominated members of both Houses receive Rs 5 crore annually