The new eSakshi app will provide an interface to capture the “entire MPLAD scheme cycle, providing convenience and accessibility like never before,” the ministry said. The initiative comes under the ministry s plan to make the MPLAD fund cycle more efficient. Last year, it launched new revised guidelines to help the members of parliament channel funds and recommend works per their constituency s needs and launched the SAKSHI portal to track progress under the scheme.
The MPLAD can be used for purchase of medical equipment for government hospitals, costing not less than Rs 5 lakh. The new MPLAD guidelines, released in April, allow for construction of rooms for hospitals, public healthcare centres, Anganwadi centres by utilising MPLAD funds. Rao Inderjeet Singh had earlier stated that list of works which can be funded using MPLADS was not exhaustive and that new works could be added on the recommendations of a Member of Parliament subject to "the overall principles of the Scheme."
An amount of Rs 21.5877 crore, as an unspent balance of the released amount under the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) Fund, allocated for the 14 MPs of Assam, is lying.
The Lok Sabha MPs (Members of Parliament) from Assam have not yet recommended works of around Rs 100 crore from the fund for the MPLADS (MP’s Local Area Development Scheme) released by the Central.
Rao Inderjit Singh, Minister of State (Independent Charge), MoSPI, informed the Lok Sabha in a written response to a query that only Rs 2,387 crore has been disbursed as of 30 March, , mplads, rao inderjit singh