MLA FUNDS AND ITS USES

In India a scheme named LADS (Local Area Development Scheme) is commonly known as MP Funds which amounts to be approximately 2 Crores per term and it must be spent to develop the concerned area. Similarly, in Assam a scheme named MLA funds which amounts to Rs. 30 lakhs per annum for the local developments is there.
What are the things that can be developed by this money? There is a clear Guidelines and it is as per the following rules.
Choice of the Projects
The works to be undertaken under MLA fund scheme should be for
a public purpose only and not a private purpose. The works that can
be taken up under this scheme fall under the following broad
categories:
1. Construction of school buildings
2. Construction of community halls/ barat ghars/ chaupals
3. Construction of subways wherever found technically feasible
4. Hostels specially for working women or girl schools
5. Public libraries
6. Construction of culverts, bridges/ foot bridges
7. Public toilets at different locations
8. Sports complexes
9. Crematoriums or development of burial grounds
10. Construction of tube wells and water tanks for providing drinking
water to the people in the villages, towns or cities, or execution of
other works which may help in this respect
11. Construction of roads and drains including part roads, approach
roads, link roads, approved by lay-outs
12. Sanitation
13. Parks
14. Computers in school
15. Street lighting
16. Provision of common services/ community services including
maintenance of group toilets, courtyard, common path and similar
other services.
The following works are not be allowed under the scheme:
1. Office buildings, residential buildings and other buildings relating
to central or state governments, departments, agencies and organisations
2. Works pertaining to commercial organisations, trusts, registered
societies, private institutions or cooperative institutions
3. Repair and maintenance works of any type other than special repairs
for restoration/ upgradation of any durable asset
4. Grants and loans
5. Memorials or memorial buildings
6. Purchase of inventory or stock of any type
7. Acquisition of land or any compensation for land acquired
8. Assets for an individual benefit, except those which are part of
approved schemes
9. Places of worship