MPLAD schemes: Detractors warn of eroded separation of powers in governance

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The detractors of these schemes contend that they erode the constitutional principle of separation of powers between the executive and the legislature, and that a robust mechanism to monitor the utilisation of public money under these schemes is absent.

Thirty-one years after it was launched, the relevance of the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS), and similar schemes that legislative assemblies, municipalities and panchayats initiated in its wake for their respective elected representatives, remains contested.

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Published On: 2024-11-05 @ 22:36:17 (7 hours ago)

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