Usually the Congress party speaks, the UPA Chairperson also speaks very high about the NREGP. Today morning also, the concerned hon. Minister has stated as to how successful NREGP is. I want to submit before you this. What is the Central allocation for the NREGP? for the 2006-07 Revised Estimates (RE), the Central allocation was Rs. 11,300 crore number of districts 200 and per district allocation Rs. 56.5 crore. This is what has happened to the NREGP. This is the flag ship programme Bharat Nirman. This is one of the charters of NCMP. Regarding the unutilised funds under Rural Employment Programmes, all of us know that there are five programmes for rural employment. I am directly putting forth to the hon. Minister I do not want to make any wild allegations and I expect and request, through your kind self, Sir, that the Government will give answers to these questions, to the entire country. So, out of the total allocations of Rs. 23896 crore, the unspent balance was Rs. 10278 crore. There is there in the 29th Report of the Standing Committee on Rural Development on Demands for Grants of 2007-08. What about the flagship programmes, what about the investment in infrastructure and what about the capital asset formation? Why is there this lacuna? Whom are they hoodwinking? Sir, the hon. Minister in charge of Finance has said in his Interim Budget that the fiscal deficit, actually according to his estimates it was to be 2.5 per cent but now because of recession and inflation, will be around 6 per cent. I would like to humbly remind him what my dear colleague in the other House had said. He said that the Interim Budget statement of hon. Pranab Mukherjee is like Satyam's balance sheet which contains all fudged figures, away from truth. Sir, a couple of days.
