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City MLAs fail to utilise funds: Lok Satta
The Lok Satta Party on Thursday alleged that the elected MLAs in Hyderabad became an obstruction to the development process and disappointed the public with their poor performance in utilising the funds given by the government. Speaking at a press conference at the party office in Ameerpet, Lok Satta city President B Sambi Reddy said that the MLAs who promised of developing Hyderabad and the State had forgotten to keep their promises.
Hyderabad: The Lok Satta Party on Thursday alleged that the elected MLAs in Hyderabad became an obstruction to the development process and disappointed the public with their poor performance in utilising the funds given by the government. Speaking at a press conference at the party office in Ameerpet, Lok Satta city President B Sambi Reddy said that the MLAs who promised of developing Hyderabad and the State had forgotten to keep their promises.
The issues related to Krishna water–Phase 3, land grabbing, encroachment of parks, protection of play grounds, development of schools and colleges, sanitation, dumping yards maintenance and others that were promised to be taken care of by the MLAs were not fulfilled and the leaders have become busy in attending functions and celebrations, he alleged.
Sambi Reddy said the Lok Satta Party had obtained the information regarding the spending of funds by the MLAs through RTI. Even the Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali had not spent his funds so far, Reddy lamented. The Lok Satta leader reminded that that party President Dr Jaya Prakash Narayan during his tenure between 2009 and 2014 as MLA had spent the funds sanctioned by the government in a span of one year and developed the constituency as promised to the public during election campaigns.
He said that the former MLA had spent Rs 8.8 crore for the development of the Kukatpally constituency against Rs 5.5 crore that was originally sanctioned by the then government. For the financial year 2014-15, the State government sanctioned Rs 24 crore as funds to the MLAs to utilise for the development of their constituencies in which only Rs 11.91 crore was spent so far which was less than 50 per cent.
For an MLA, the government gave Rs 1.5 crore for the first year, in which Rs 75 lakh could be spent directly depending on the necessity, while the remaining could be utilised by sending a proposal to the government in accordance with the concerned Minister. Sambi Reddy said that among the BJP MLAs in Hyderabad, Amberpet MLA Kishan Reddy spent only Rs 14.55 lakh and Musheerabad MLA Lakshman spent only Rs 37.94 lakh while Khairatabad MLA Chintala Ramachandra Reddy did not spent even a single rupee for development in his constituency.
Uppal MLA NVSS Prabhakar spent Rs 74.98 lakh and Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh spent Rs 24.24 lakh in the previous year. Among the ruling party MLAs, Malkajgiri MLA Kanaka Reddy spent Rs 71.35 lakh, Medchal MLA M Sudheer Reddy spent Rs 72.92 lakh, Home Minister Naini Narasimha Reddy spent Rs 60 lakh and nominated MLA Elvis Stephenson spent only Rs 6 lakh.
Among the TDP MLAs, Serilingampally MLA Arikepudi Gandhi spent Rs 34.10 lakh, LB Nagar MLA R Krishnaiah spent Rs 73.55 lakh and Jubilee Hills MLA Maganti Gopinath spent Rs 84.5 lakh. Among the MIM leaders, Chandrayangutta MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi spent Rs 75 lakh, Charminar MLA Pasha Qadri spent Rs 25 lakh, Yakuthpura MLA Mumtaz Ahmed Khan spent Rs 70 lakh and Bahadurpura MLA Mohammed Moiz Khan spent Rs 74.63 lakh for the development in their constituencies, said Sambi Reddy.
Sambi Reddy said that the MLAs of Quthbullapur, Rajendranagar, Secunderabad Cantonment, Malakpet, Nampally and Karwan utilised the funds more than the other MLAs for the development of their constituencies.
