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MPLAD Scheme While extending support to the move for salary-cut, most Members of Parliament have demanded that the MPLADS funds, meant for development work in constituencies, be restored immediately. Recently, a private member's bill has been passed in the Parliament of India for the first time in its history. What is the MPLAD scheme? The Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) is a programme first launched during the Narasimha Rao Government in 1993. It was aimed towards providing funds for developmental works recommended by individual MPs. Funds available The MPs then were entitled to recommend works to the tune of Rs 1 crore annually between 1994-95 and 1997-98, after which the annual entitlement was enhanced to Rs 2 crore. The UPA government in 2011-12 raised the annual entitlement to Rs 5 crore per MP. Implementation To implement their plans in an area, MPs have to recommend them to the District Authority of the respective Nodal District. The District Authorities then identify Implementing Agencies which execute the projects. The respective District Authority is supposed to oversee the implementation and has to submit monthly reports, audit reports, and work completion reports to the Nodal District Authority. The MPLADS funds can be merged with other schemes such as MGNREGA and Khelo India. Guidelines for MPLADS implementation The document 'Guidelines on MPLADS' was published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation in June 2016 in this regard. It stated the objective of the scheme to enable MPs to recommend works of developmental nature with emphasis on the creation of durable community assets based on the locally felt needs in their Constituencies. Right from the inception of the Scheme, durable assets of national priorities viz. drinking water, primary education, public health, sanitation and roads, etc. should be created. It recommended MPs to works costing at least 15 per cent of their entitlement for the year for areas inhabited by Scheduled Caste population and 7.5 per cent for areas inhabited by ST population. It lays down a number of development works including construction of railway halt stations, providing financial assistance to recognised bodies, cooperative societies, installing CCTV cameras etc. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Join >> @dailynewscom

NEW BILL ON POWERS OF DELHI GOVERNMENT, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is likely to introduce legislation in the ongoing Parliament session to amend a 1991 Act pertaining to the powers and function of the Delhi government and the Lieutenant Governor. Key propositions of the Bill The Bill proposes to clearly spell out the functions of the Council of Ministers and the Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) by giving more discretionary powers to the L-G. As per the Bill, the L-G could act in his discretion in any matter that is beyond the purview of the powers of the Legislative Assembly of Delhi in matters related to the All India (Civil) Services and the Anti Corruption Branch. It will also give more teeth to the L-G, and the validity of any decision taken as per such discretion shall not be questioned. Back2Basics: Special provisions for New Delhi The Union Territory of Delhi with a Legislative Assembly came into being in 1991 under Article 239AA of the Constitution inserted by 'the Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991'. It said that the UT of Delhi shall be called the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The administrator thereof appointed under Article 239 shall be designated as the Lieutenant-Governor. According to the existing Act, the Legislative Assembly of Delhi has the power to make laws in all matters except public order, police, and land. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Join >> @dailynewscom

RE-SCALING THE HEIGHT OF Mt. EVEREST China and Nepal are expected to announce the latest official height of Mt. Everest. Mt. Everest Mount Everest or Sagarmatha, Earth's highest mountain above sea level, is located in the Himalayas between China and Nepal -- the border between them running across its summit point. Its current official elevation - 8,848m - places it more than 200m above the world's second-highest mountain, K2, which is 8,611m tall and located in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The mountain gets its English name from Sir George Everest, a colonial-era geographer who served as the Surveyor General of India in the mid-19th century. Considered an elite climbing destination, Everest was first scaled in 1953 by the Indian-Nepalese Tenzing Norgay and New Zealander Edmund Hillary. Everest's first survey The mission to measure the world's highest peak was taken up on a serious note in 1847 and culminated with the finding of a team led by Andrew Waugh of the Royal Surveyor General of India. The team discovered that 'Peak 15' as Mt Everest was referred to then was the highest mountain, contrary to the then-prevailing belief that Mt Kanchenjunga (8,582 m) was the highest peak in the world. Another belief, prevailing even today, is that 8,840 m is not the height that was actually determined by the 19th-century team. That survey, based on trigonometric calculations, is known as the Great Trigonometric Survey of India. Why is the height being measured again? Everest's current official height- 8,848m- has been widely accepted since 1956, when the figure was measured by the Survey of India. The height of the summit, however, is known to change because of tectonic activity, such as the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Its measurement over the decades has also depended on who was surveying. Another debate is whether the height should be based on the highest rock point or the highest snow point. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Join >> @dailynewscom

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