Lok Sabha Question No. 473 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-16
Subject: Unspent MPLAD Fund in Jharkhand
Ministry: STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
Asked by: Chandra Prakash Choudhary

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 473 TO BE ANSWERED ON 16.09.2020

## UNSPENT  MPLAD  FUND IN JHARKHAND

473. SHRI CHANDRA PRAKASH CHOUDHARY:

Will the Minister of STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION be pleased to state:

- (a) the quantum of funds that remained unspent under Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) in Jharkhand during  the  last  five  years,  MP/year-wise  along  with  the  manner  in which how the unspent fund is utilized, constituency- wise; and
- (b)  whether  the  Government  asks  district  administration  to provide  regular  information  on  progress  of  projects  and  if  so,  the details thereof work-wise, MP-wise and year-wise?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS  AND  PROGRAMME  IMPLEMENTATION  AND  MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

- (a)  As  reported  by  the  concerned  nodal  district  authorities  on  portal www.mplads.gov.in, the funds that remained unspent under MPLADS, Member  of  Parliament  wise  (sitting  and  former  both),  in  respect  of Jharkhand, as on 09.09.2020 for the last five years inter-alia covering the 16 th , 17 th  Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs is at annexure.

The funds released under the scheme are non- lapsable and the funds received by a district in a particular year can be utilized in the subsequent  financial  year(s).  Therefore,  unspent  balance  is  not  an unused  fund  but  includes  the  funds  of  the  sanctioned  and  ongoing works.

works due to be paid on execution of The  unspent  funds  are  utilized  for  completion  of  the  eligible works recommended by the concerned Hon'ble MPs upto the last day of  the  term  of  the  Hon'ble  MP as  per  para  3.11  of  the  MPLADS Guidelines. Funds  that  remain  unspent  with  the  district  authorities  after executing all  the  eligible  works  and  closure  of  accounts  in  terms  of provisions  under  4.10.1  of  MPLADS  Guidelines,  are  transferred  to successor/  distributed  in  terms  of  paras  4.7  to  4.10  of  the  said Guidelines, as the case may be. (b)  Yes  Sir,  provisions  exist  on  the  MPLADS  portal  for  the  district authorities  to  provide  work-wise,  MP-wise  and  year-wise  details  on progress  of  projects  regularly.  The  information  in  this  regard  is available in public domain on the website: www.mplads.gov.in.

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## ANNEXURE TO LOK SABHA USQ. 473 TO BE REPLIED ON 16.09.2020 REFERRED TO IN PART (a)

| House Name   | S.No   | MPName                          | District               | Fund Received GOI (Rs. Crore)   | Unspent Balance (Rs. Crore)   |
|--------------|--------|---------------------------------|------------------------|---------------------------------|-------------------------------|
| 2            | 3      | 4                               | 5                      | 6                               | 7                             |
| 16 th Lok    |        |                                 |                        |                                 |                               |
| Sabha        | 1      | Shri Sunil Kumar Singh          | CHATRA                 | 22.50                           | 3.41                          |
|              | 2      | Shri Pashupati Nath Singh       | DHANBAD                | 25.00                           | 4.95                          |
|              | 3      | Shri Ravindra Kumar Pandey      | BOKARO                 | 22.50                           | 4.61                          |
|              | 4      | Shri Vishnu Dayal Ram           | PALAMAU                | 25.00                           | 0.00                          |
|              | 5      | Shri Nishikant Dubey            | GODDA                  | 7.50                            | 3.39                          |
|              | 6      | Shri Kariya Munda               | KHUNTI                 | 20.00                           | 0.45                          |
|              | 7      | Dr. Ravindra Kumar Ray          | GIRIDIH                | 22.50                           | 0.01                          |
|              | 8      | Shri Laxman Giluwa              | CHAIBAS (W.SINGHBHU M) | 30.00                           | 0.39                          |
|              | 9      | Shri Ram Tahal Choudhary        | RANCHI                 | 17.50                           | 3.32                          |
|              | 10     | Shri Sudarshan Bhagat           | RANCHI                 | 22.50                           | 0.26                          |
|              | 11     | Shri Shibu Soren                | DUMKA                  | 20.00                           | 2.68                          |
|              | 12     | Shri Jayant Sinha               | HAZARIBAGH             | 22.50                           | 2.96                          |
|              | 13     | Shri Bidyut Baran Mahato        | EAST SINGHBUM          | 20.00                           | 2.78                          |
|              | 14     | Shri Vijay Kumar Hansdak        | SAHEBGANJ              | 20.00                           | 2.46                          |
| 17th Lok     |        |                                 |                        |                                 |                               |
| Sabha        | 1      | Shri Sunil Kumar Singh          | CHATRA                 | 2.50                            | 2.47                          |
|              | 2      | Dr. Nishikant Dubey             | DEOGHAR                | 2.50                            | 2.50                          |
|              | 3      | Shri Pashupati Nath Singh       | DHANBAD                | 2.50                            | 2.50                          |
|              | 4      | SHRI. Chandra Prakash Choudhary | BOKARO                 | 2.50                            | 2.50                          |
|              | 5      | Shri Vishnu Dayal Ram           | PALAMAU                | 2.50                            | 2.42                          |
|              | 6      | Shri Arjun Munda                | KHUNTI                 | 2.50                            | 2.50                          |
|              | 7      | Smt. Geeta kora                 | CHAIBAS (W.SINGHBHU M) | 2.50                            | 2.50                          |
|              | 8      | Shri Sudarshan Bhagat           | RANCHI                 | 2.50                            | 0.63                          |
|              | 9      | Shri Sanjay Seth                | RANCHI                 | 2.50                            | 1.02                          |

|                |       | 10   | SHRI. Sunil Soren                   | DUMKA         | 5.00    | 3.82   |
|----------------|-------|------|-------------------------------------|---------------|---------|--------|
|                |       | 11   | Shri Jayant Sinha                   | HAZARIBAGH    | 2.50    | 2.50   |
|                |       | 12   | Shri Bidyut Baran Mahato            | EAST SINGHBUM | 2.50    | 2.50   |
|                |       | 13   | Shri Vijay Kumar Hansdak            | SAHEBGANJ     | 2.50    | 0.06   |
|                |       | 14   | Ms. Annpurna Devi                   | KODARMA       | 2.50    | 2.50   |
|                | Total |      |                                     |               | 335 .00 | 62.09  |
| Rajya Sabha MP | Ex Mp |      |                                     |               |         |        |
|                |       | 1    | Shri S.S. Ahluwalia - Ex            | DEOGHAR       | 13.00   | 3.30   |
|                |       | 2    | Shri Digvijay Singh-Ex              | DEOGHAR       | 8.00    | 1.54   |
|                |       | 3    | Shri Jai Prakash Narayan Singh      | DEOGHAR       | 21.00   | 4.87   |
|                |       | 4    | Shri Parmeshwar Kumar Agarwalla-Ex  | DHANBAD       | 17.05   | 0.44   |
|                |       | 5    | Shri Sanjiv Kumar-Ex                | DHANBAD       | 25.00   | 4.16   |
|                |       | 6    | Shri Shibu Soren -Ex                | BOKARO        | 5.00    | 2.98   |
|                |       | 7    | Shri Ram Kumar Anand-Ex             | BOKARO        | 11.00   | 0.36   |
|                |       | 8    | Shri Shibu Soren-Ex                 | BOKARO        | 1.00    | 1.00   |
|                |       | 9    | Shri Ven Dhamma Viriyo-Ex           | PALAMAU       | 4.00    | 2.20   |
|                |       | 10   | Ms. Mabel Rebello - Ex              | GUMLA         | 15.00   | 1.89   |
|                |       | 11   | Shri Dhiraj Prasad Sahu-Ex          | LOHARDAGA     | 26.50   | 1.89   |
|                |       | 12   | Shri Ajay Maroo-Ex                  | RANCHI        | 12.00   | 0.04   |
|                |       | 13   | Shri Parimal Nathwani               | RANCHI        | 41.00   | 2.04   |
|                |       | 14   | SHRI. Prem Chand Gupta              | RANCHI        | 22.50   | 0.56   |
|                |       | 15   | Dr. Kanwar Deep Singh               | RANCHI        | 11.00   | 0.29   |
|                |       | 16   | Shri Devdas Apte-Ex                 | RANCHI        | 11.00   | 0.07   |
|                |       | 17   | Shri M.J AKBAR-ex                   | RANCHI        | 15.00   | 5.52   |
|                |       | 18   | Shri Hemant Soren-Ex                | DUMKA         | 1.00    | 0.00   |
|                |       | 19   | Shri Abhay Kant Prasad-Ex           | DUMKA         | 4.00    | 0.25   |
|                |       | 20   | Shri Stiphen Marandi-Ex             | DUMKA         | 1.00    | 0.00   |
|                |       | 21   | Shri Moulana Obaidulla Khan Azmi-Ex | HAZARIBAGH    | 10.00   | 0.01   |
|                |       | 22   | Shri Yashwant Sinha-Ex              | HAZARIBAGH    | 9.00    | 2.33   |
|                |       | 23   | Shri Daya Nand Sahay-Ex             | EAST SINGHBUM | 2.00    | 0.02   |
|                |       | 24   | Dr Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu-Ex        | EAST SINGHBUM | 27.50   | 2.64   |

|       | Sitting Mp   | 1   | SHRI. Shibu Soren        | NODAL DISTRICT AWAITED   |   0.00 |   0.00 |
|-------|--------------|-----|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------|--------|
|       |              | 2   | SHRI. Deepak Prakash     | NODAL DISTRICT AWAITED   |   0    |   0    |
|       |              | 3   | Shri Samir Oraon         | GUMLA                    |   5    |   3    |
|       |              | 4   | Shri Dhiraj Prasad Sahu  | LOHARDAGA                |   7.5  |   5.3  |
|       |              | 5   | Shri Mahesh Poddar       | RANCHI                   |  12.5  |   2.37 |
|       |              | 6   | Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | RANCHI                   |  10    |   0.36 |
|       | Total        |     |                          |                          | 348.55 |  49.43 |
| Total | Total        |     |                          |                          | 683.55 | 111.52 |