{"id":1648,"date":"2018-08-23T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T07:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2018-08-23T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T07:24:11","slug":"mplads-funds-23-aug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/mplads-funds-23-aug\/","title":{"rendered":"MPLADS funds 23 Aug"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>MPLADS funds:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Keeping in view the intensity and magnitude of the floods in Kerala, the Government of India has declared this a calamity of a \u2018severe nature\u2019. The Rajya Sabha Chairman and Lok Sabha Speaker urged Members of Parliament to generously contribute from their MPLADS funds for relief and rehabilitation works in flood-affected Kerala besides considering donating a month\u2019s salary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Guidelines for aid:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Guidelines of Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme has provision that in the event of \u2018Calamity of severe nature\u2019 in any part of the country, an MP can recommend works up to a maximum of Rs. 1 cr. for the affected district.<\/li>\n<li>The guidelines say that from the day an MP makes such contribution, concerned authorities have to identify relief works in one month time and the same should be implemented within eight months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>MPLADS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every Member of Parliament (MP) gets Rs. 5 crore annually to undertake development works of his choice in his constituency, known as the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS).<\/li>\n<li>The MPLAD Scheme is Central Sector Scheme launched in 1993-94. It enables Members of Parliament (both elected and nominated) to recommend works for creation of durable community assets based on locally felt needs to be taken up in their constituencies in the area of national priority like drinking water, education, sanitation etc.<\/li>\n<li>The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MSPI) is nodal ministry to coordinate work under scheme.<\/li>\n<li>Funds released under the scheme are non-lapsable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPLADS funds: Keeping in view the intensity and magnitude of the floods in Kerala, the Government of India has declared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[652,570,423,392,390,613],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-studies-ii","tag-current-affairs-news-plus","tag-triumphias-daily-dose","tag-triumphias-news-plus","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc","tag-upsc","tag-vikashvani"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}