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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
It is no great secret that the UPA government has not been quite happy
with the functioning of the Ministry of Development of the North Eastern
Region (DoNER). The Centre's development funds for the Northeast
have rarely been utilized as they were meant to be, and the utilization
reports as well as the detailed accounts for projects have rarely been
submitted in time (if at all) and there have been serious allegations of
large sums of money being siphoned out to private coffers. All said and
done, there were legitimate complaints that the DoNER Ministry was
functioning inefficiently. As a consequence, a parliamentary committee
was appointed to look into the functioning of the DoNER Ministry and
to make recommendations. Not surprisingly, the committee has
recommended that the Union government dissolve the DoNER Ministry
and put it under the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
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