Ruling Samajwadi Party has charged the Congress-led UPA II government at the Centre for putting hurdles in the implementation of developmental and welfare schemes in the state pushing Uttar Pradesh to more backwardness.
''The Centre has only sanctioned 17 per cent of the total Rs 44,000 crore as financial aid to the state so far in the current fiscal while the decision on a special package to the state is yet to be considered,'' said state SP spokesperson and UP Minister Rajendra Chaudhury here.
Talking to media persons here on Friday Chaudhury said that the Central government and its ministers were interested in only putting objections on the developmental work pushing the state towards backwardness.
"It is no longer a secret that Union ministers from UP were putting all their effort to derail the developmental works in the state. They are sitting tight on the files of the development schemes and stalling its implementation," he said.
Raking up the Centre's move to stop funding for ambulance service under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Chaudhury said that Centre has stopped all the grants for 109 Ambulance Service just as it was named as Samajwadi Ambulance service.
''UP CM Akhilesh Yadav himself intervened into the matter and now the state government is funding the total amount for the 108 Samajwadi Ambulance Service,'' he said and added that Chief Minister has made up his mind not to allow centre to derail development projects in UP. If need be State Government would finance the projects.
Samajwadi Party has supported the UPA-I and UPA-II governments on different occasion at the Centre to save the Manmohan Singh government from collapsing but it is stalling development schemes of the state, he said.