A little more than Rs 120 billion of MPLAD funds lying unused, says report

The report showed that there are 2,920 pending installments of Rs 25 million each, making it about Rs 73 billion worth of installments that have not been released

A little more than Rs 120 billion in Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLAD) funds have remained unused till the end of the 2017-18 fiscal year, an internal report has stated. Of this, about Rs 48 billion, or 10 per cent, still remains unspent, while the remaining amount of Rs 73 billion is yet to be allocated due to backlogs.

The internal report, whose contents were examined by Business Standard, has been drafted by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). The report states that the unutilised amount is mainly due to the state and district administrations