"do not have any idea where money is coming from and where it goes".
Correct. Maybe MLAs and ministers need to go thru the same training regime as
IAS/ACS. Most of these peoples reps are not anything beyond matriculates and
hence do not have the moral right to be ordering IAS officers around.
At a start - shall we say they dont know how or where the money goes becoz they
dont understand abcd of finance or accounting?
P.s. In most cases we are talking about several crores of rupees here.
Rgds,
SD
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From: Dilip/Dil Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [Assam] Unused MLALAD funds to go to State exchequer(The Sentinel,
15.10.2007)
The ignorant fools in Dispur do not have any idea where money is coming from
and where it goes. Is there anyone in Dispur who is keeping track of all the
money earmarked for Assam and where it is supposed to be spent? I heard Tarun
Gogoi say in Boston that a lot of the funds from Delhi are just promise, not
real money. Whose responsibility is it to convert them to real money? I'd think
the assam ministers and their IAS cadre have the responsibility.
Wake up Dispur. Get on the ball. Blaming Delhi will take you only a short
distance. The whole trip is more than that.
Dilip Deka
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Buljit Buragohain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unused MLALAD funds to go to State exchequer
Not a single paisa of MLALAD funds was used during the fiscal 2006-07 in
Dholai, Baitholangshu, Majuli, Dergaon, Jorhat, Bijni, Sidli and Dhemaji LACs
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Oct 14: Massive “underutilization” and “unutilization” of cash
released by the Planning and Development Department of the Asom Government as
MLA Local Area Development (MLALAD) funds over the years has prompted the State
Government to think to make the non-lapsable MLALAD funds lapsable i.e.
introducing the system of the taking the unused money of the MLALAD funds back
to the State exchequer. Besides exposing the lack of commitment on the part of
the elected representatives of the State towards the development of their
respective Legislative Assembly Constituencies (LACs), “underutilization” and
“unutilization” of the released cash failed the very purpose of the MLALAD
funds which had been introduced in the State by then Chief Minister Hiteswar
Saikia in 1994.
According sources, the Additional Chief Secretary in-charge of P & D Department
has prepared a note stating that the unused MLALAD funds will go back to the
State exchequer. However, the Additional Chief secretary’s note is yet to be
approved by the Chief Minister. The system prevalent at present is that the
unused MLALAD funds are released for developmental schemes of the
constituencies in the following financial year.
According to sources, from fiscal 2002-03 to 2006-07, the State Government
released Rs 17,640 lakh as MLALAD funds, but Rs 3343.42 lakh of this amount
remained unused. In the fiscal 2006-07 alone, the State Government released Rs
3,780 lakh as MLALAD funds for its 126 Legislative Assembly Constituencies
(LACs), but Rs 1283.42 lakh of the amount remained unused. The worst is that
not a single paisa of MLALAD funds was used during the fiscal 2006-07 in
Dholai, Baitholangshu, Majuli, Dergaon, Jorhat, Bijni, Sidli and Dhemaji LACs.
Meanwhile, the P & D Department recently informed the district administration
that Rs 3,150 lakh was released for the 126 LACs of the State at the rate of Rs
25 lakh per LAC as the first instalment of the MLALAD fund for the fiscal
2007-08. The department, however, made it clear to the deputy commissioners
that all pending schemes up to 2006-07 have to be implemented as per the
standing guidelines, and the entire amount released by December 31, 2007 has to
be used. “If any funds of the previous years remain unused, that may be
surrendered and deposited in the State exchequer,” the P & D Department said,
and added: “The deputy commissioners should furnish the reports of completion
of works along with unutilization certificates in respect of MLALAD funds to it
in due course.”
(The Sentinel,15.10.2007)
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