Saturday, March 18 2006 11:28 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Close on the heels of the Parliamentary panel asking the Government to revise guidelines governing MPLADS, a Lok Sabha Committee on the scheme has invited views on it from the general public, experts and NGOs as part of a review exercise.

The Parliamentary Committee on MPLADS, chaired by Prasanna Acharya, is examining the subject 'MPLAD- A Review' and has decided to elicit the views of the public in general and experts/professionals/academcians/NGOs etc in regard to the perception, the benefits realised, achievements, the deficiencies in the implementation of the scheme and expectation from it, sources said here.

Comments are also invited on the extent of fulfillment of local needs and the role of MPLADS in it. Suggestions for improving the working and the implementation of the scheme in order to achieve the objectives of the scheme are also invited, it said.

The Parliamentary Committee, which probed the MPLAD scam, while recommending the suspension of the MPs also suggested that the Union Government may suitably revise guidelines governing MPLADS with a view to plugging various loopholes and lacunae.