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Kathmandu Friday July 06, 2001 Ashadh 22, 2058.
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MPs’ development fund not fully
utilised yet
Post Report
MORANG, July 5 - Six of the seven Members of Parliament
elected from the district have not been able to spend all the amount ( one million rupees
of the MP’s Fund) for different construction and development works in the current
fiscal year.
They are authorised to spend this amount in development works
at their disposal.
According to the DDC, six of them have spent only Rs 666,000
in their constituencies from the MP’s Fund during the current fiscal year.
More than 75 percent works of the projects initiated with the
fund are also lying incomplete. The remaining amount ( Rs 334,000) is also not likely to
be spent for construction and development works this year, DDC sources said.
Minister for Education and Sports Amod Prasad Upadhyaya has
implemented 31 projects in Morang Constituency-1 from the MP’s Fund, but 24 of them
are yet to be completed.
Similarly, in Constituency-2, MP Bharat Mohan Adhikari has
run seven projects but there has been no settlement of account of even one of the
projects.
It is only MP Lal Babu Pundit of Constituency-3 who has spent
the entire amount which he was authorised to spend from the MP’s Fund. He has
implemented 22 development projects and six of them have been completed.
In the same way, MP Harka Man Tamang of Morang Constituency-4
has initiated 22 development works. Only four of them have been completed by now.
According to DDC sources, Defence Minister Mahesh Acharya who
has been elected from Morang Constituency-5, has carried out 14 projects, but there has
been no settlement of account of any project.
Similarly, MP Hari Narayan Chaudhari of Constituency-6 has
run 21 projects and completed 6 projects while MP Badri Prasad Mandal has run 52 projects
and completed 15 projects, according to DDC sources.
All the seven MPs have included road, school, irrigation,
temple and tubewell construction in their constituencies.
MPs receive the fund in three installments after submitting
the project schemes. Six MPs have not demanded for the third installment.
According to project officer in Morang DDC, Nutan Chapagain,
the amount of the MP’s Fund which remains to be spent this year will be given to them
again next year.
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