Abolishing MLALAD in Bihar : Right step in right direction

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar should be complimented for his yet other reformative move to scrap corruption-generating MLA Local Area Development (MLALAD) Scheme. Rather Union government should follow to scrap similar scheme for Parliamentarians when even Planning Commission observed that such a scheme is a fount of corruption as also exposed through a TV-sting. Also the then Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chaterjee had echoed likewise to scrap the scheme.

Many MPs and MLAs are over-generous to fund their favourite organisations for their projects from these schemes even though such funding may have nothing to do with public-welfare. It may be recalled that trusts floated by Election Commissioner Navin Chawla were found to be generously funded by MPLAD allocation of Parliamentarians from ruling party. Our Parliamentarians and MLAs must have capability to get work done for public-welfare from existing administrative-machinery including wisely using RTI Act rather than needing short-cut by way of corruption-generating scheme!