Ironically, six MPs utilised less than 10% of their allocated funds. The Centre allocates Rs 5 crore every year to each lawmaker under MPLADS. Hyderabad: Even two years after taking the oath as Members of Parliament (Lok Sabha), some lawmakers have failed to utilise funds allotted to them under the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS).
An independent public-interest data dashboard, designed to make public Indian govt data more accessible for citizens and others, the Centre had allocated Rs 394 crore to the 23 MPs (17 Lok Sabha and six Rajya Sabha MPs), but only Rs 94 crore was utilised and 2,347 works were completed, according to data uploaded by ‘Empowered Indian’ website. Of the two Union ministers, G Kishan Reddy had spent Rs 47.50 lakh of Rs 14.70 crore allotted, which was about 3.23% of the funds, while Bandi Sanjay Kumar spent Rs 6.50 crore of Rs 17.27 crore, which was about 38% of the funds, according to the portal. But Kishan Reddy’s office said that the Union minister recommended Rs 10 crore worth of works out of the Rs 14 crore till March 2026 and Rs 8.90 crore has already been completed. They said since 2019, the minister had recommended works worth Rs 30 crore and Sanjay was left with only Rs 88 lakh in balance till the end of the last financial year.
Probably, the collectorate has not updated the details on the portal,” a representative from Kishan Reddy’s office said, denying such low utilisation.
Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s office said details of works were probably not uploaded by the chief planning officers of the respective districts and were not reflecting on the website. “Generally, the district administration (Hyderabad) has to get the works done by the executing agency and get completion certification and provide a utilisation certificate to the Centre.
Interestingly, AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi ’s fund utilisation was just 7.6%, with spending of Rs 1.11 crore of Rs 14.70 crore allocated, while Congress MPs Renuka Chowdary and BRS MP B Partha Saradhi Reddy spent only 2.08% and 2.43% of the MPLADS funds, respectively.