MPLADS SCHEME SHOULD BE ABOLISHED (!).

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Delhi:Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Parliament and Planning Commission termed MPLADS useless and corruption-generating. A TV-sting caught Parliamentarians taking bribe to approve schemes to be funded through MPLADS. The then Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chaterjee had echoed likewise to scrap the scheme. Many MPs and MLAs are over-generous to fund their favourite organisations from this scheme even though such funding may have nothing to do with public-welfare. It may be recalled that trusts floated by the then Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla were generously funded by Parliamentarians cutting across party-lines from MPLADS. Our Parliamentarians and MLAs must have capability to get work done for public-welfare from existing administrative-machinery including wisely using RTI Act rather than needing short-cut by way of corruption-generating scheme.

Already Bihar government has abolished such a scheme in the state. All such suggested reforms should be implemented both at the centre and in states.

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