Wednesday, January 18 2006 10:18 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Ballia: Former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar, Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh and film actress Jaya Bachhan were among those MPs who havenot been able to make use of their MPLAD funds for the year 2005-06 so far.

According to official sources yesterday (Jan 17,2006) Chandrashekhar had received the first installment of his MPLAD funds amounting to Rs one crore.

Owing to lack of any proposal from the former Prime Minister, the funds had not been released, the sources said.

Similarly Azamgarh, the home district of Amar Singh, had also received Rs 1.1 crore from his MPLAD fund but still awaited a proposal from the Rajya Sabha member, who is also the chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Development Council, the sources said.

Azamgarh district had also received Rs 1.10 crore from the MPLAD funds of Jaya Bachhan but could not be released due to lack of any proposal, the sources said.