{"id":27192,"date":"2024-10-12T01:32:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T20:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27192"},"modified":"2025-04-08T07:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T02:17:26","slug":"mlalad-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mlalad-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"MLALAD Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About MLALAD Fund:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is modeled on a\u00a0<strong>similar programme for MPs<\/strong>, providing funding for each constituency directly from the government.<\/li>\n<li>While MLAs and MPs do not directly receive the funds, they can recommend projects for the scheme.<\/li>\n<li>Both MLALAD and MPLAD have their own sets of guidelines but the projects funded by them are usually restricted to \u201cdurable infrastructure work\u201d, from repairing roads to building community centres.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Under the scheme, each MLA has the choice to\u00a0<strong>suggest to the Deputy Commissioner<\/strong>\u00a0of his\/her district, to the extent of allocations given from year to year, to be taken up by his\/her constituency.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>MLALAD funds are\u00a0<strong>issued every year to MLAs<\/strong>\u00a0for local development such as repairing roads, and streetlights, developing parks, and laying sewer lines in colonies.<\/li>\n<li>The type of work under this scheme should be\u00a0<strong>developmental in nature based<\/strong>\u00a0on locally felt<\/li>\n<li>The work should be such that it can be completed within one financial year and lead to the creation of durable assets.<\/li>\n<li>The amount provided under MLALAD Scheme is released\u00a0<strong>in the form of Grant-in-aid<\/strong>\u00a0for utilisation by the districts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is an objective MPLAD Scheme?<\/h3>\n<p>It enables the Members of Parliament 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 priorities namely drinking water, education, public health, sanitation, roads etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/delhi-news\/delhi-cabinet-hikes-mla-lad-funds-by-50-bjp-calls-it-deception-101728582993557.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0Delhi cabinet hikes MLA-LAD funds by 50%, BJP calls it \u2018deception\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLALAD Fund  provides funding for each constituency directly from the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}