More funds likely for rural development board

  • 02/07/2004

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

Bowing to demands from MLAs of the Outer Delhi parliamentary constituency, the Delhi Government is contemplating making financial budgetary provisions for the Rural Development Board on the lines of the Trans-Yamuna Development Board. The effort is being seen as an attempt to give a thrust to developmental activities in the vast rural belt of Delhi. According to the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, the Government is working out details and the idea is to create a separate fund for the Rural Development Board so that it is able to take up development activities in rural Delhi without any hitch. Apart from the regular plan schemes and those initiated by the MLAs out of their Constituency Development Fund, such a fund would enable the MLAs to get big infrastructure projects underway in their respective constituencies. For instance, the East Delhi MLAs have got big community and cultural centres, bridges and other such projects executed from the Trans-Yamuna Development Fund.