Govt failed to use Central funds: MP

Tribune News Service

Solan, May 25

MP Virender Kashyap blamed the state government for failing to avail funds under various Central schemes and said the delay in sending utilisation certificates was acting as an impediment in the receipt of funds.

Addressing mediapersons here today on the eve of completion of two years of the NDA government, Kashyap enlisted the achievements of the Union government.

He said the Modi-led government had done an exemplary job in its two-year stint which was bereft of any corruption. He gave comparative details of laws passed, sittings held in both houses of Parliament during the NDA and the UPA term. Kashyap said the Modi government was ameliorating the lot of the poor, rural and agrarian sections of society.

Kashyap enlisted various flagship programmes like the Skill India Mission, Jan Dhan Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, linkage of Aadhar card to various subsidy schemes, etc. He said the common man was benefiting from such schemes launched by the Modi government.

He said need-based amendments had been made in the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, SC/ST Atrocities Act, Motor Vehicle Act, etc., and this had helped in strengthening regulation and making the Acts more effective.

Kashyap gave details about various Central projects which had been announced for his constituency and said the Modi-led government had granted funds to the state liberally.

He said an IIM was coming up in Sirmaur and a medical college at Nahan in his constituency. He said Union Minister for MSME Kalraj Mishra had laid the foundation stone of Rs 160 crore mega tool room at Baddi recently and Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers Ananth Kumar had announced a bulk drug park for the Baddi area during his recent visit to Himachal. Besides, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda had inaugurated the new manufacturing facility at the Central Research Institute in Kasauli.

He said Himachal was among a few priority states of the North East where the Union government was granting financial assistance in the 90:10 pattern.

The MP, when quizzed on Central schemes, agreed that the beneficiaries could not avail optimum benefit of various schemes owing to lack of awareness and added that efforts were afoot to enhance awareness.