MPLAD: Open up to social audit

Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh stirred a hornet’s nest  a couple of weeks ago when he said the Members of Parliament were unprepared for a social audit of the MP Local Area Development Scheme. Barring the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which has backed the idea and said the expenditure on the scheme must be subject to public scrutiny, nobody else seems to be ready to back him.

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