The Constituency Development Scheme (CDS) fund for MLAs/MLCs till 2015-16, raised from ₹1.5 crore to ₹3 crore a year, was a step in that direction. Full discretion of local leaders for fund use will achieve this,” Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had said in 2016. But a physical and financial progress report of MLAs/MLCs CDS in Nalgonda, Suryapet and Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri show the opposite. Twelve MLAs and three MLCs in the districts were sanctioned ₹2.25 crore at ₹75 lakh a trimester till January 2018. Of the 1, 003 sanctioned works in a year, only 308 were completed across all 15 assembly and council constituencies.

Source: The Hindu February 26, 2018 18:00 UTC