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Member of Legislative Assembly Local Area Development Fund

budgets for Indian state legislators

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 20, 2021
Entity authorityQ106910809 ↗
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Member of Legislative Assembly Local Area Development Funds (MLA-LAD) are constituency development funds provided by India's states to their MLAs (Members of the Legislative Assembly). Each MLA can use their Fund for small development projects in their constituency.:27

States

The MLA-LAD scheme was launched in Karnataka in the fiscal year 2001–02.

In Uttar Pradesh, the MLA-LAD funds are Rs 3 crore per year since 2020.

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“Member of Legislative Assembly Local Area Development Fund” enters the record as budgets for Indian state legislators. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Member, Legislative and Assembly can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Member of Legislative Assembly Local Area Development Fund” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.