Around 80 per cent of MlA local Area Development (MlA lAD) funds have been spent on different developmental works in the financial year 2012-13 in Dehradun, said Dehradun Development Officer Sanjay Singh. He said that this was achieved after department officials were repeatedly sent to collect proposals for construction of cement concrete road, boundary wall, community hall, minor irrigation, electricity poles, school maintenance, security wall, additional classrooms and others under lAD fund from MlAs in Dehradun.
In the past, it was experienced that MlA lAD fund was not being spent on time. learning lesson from past experiences, the department officials were sent to collect work proposals from MlAs. Some MlAs also visited the office for submitting proposals this year.
Other department officials said that Doiwala MlA Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank had spent around `1.50 crore on development works till March 20 which was least among all the MlAs. Nishank will have to spend around `1 crore till March 31 otherwise this fund would be added in the next financial year.
likewise, Dehradun Cantt MlA Harbans Kapur will have to spend around `38 lakh whereas Rajpur Road MlA Rajkumar will have to spend `80.20 lakh, Mussoorie MlA Ganesh Joshi will have to spend `49.8 lakh, Dharmpur MlA Dinesh Aggarwal will have to spend ` 56.8 lakh, Sahaspur MlA SS Pundir will have to spend ` 31.12 lakh, Raipur MlA Umesh Sharma will have to spend ` 53.46 lakh, Rishikesh MlA Prem Chand Agrawal will have to spend ` 45.61lakh and Vikasnagar MlA Navprabhat will have to spend ` 64.47 lakh.
Rajpur Road MlA Raj Kumar disagreed with this data and said that he had proposed works costing `30 lakh more than allocated lAD fund of `2.5 crore. He had spent the fund on different developmental works of the area, claimed the MlA.