Subject(s): Democratic Decentralisation -- Salary, allowances and facilities of MPs -- Concept and implications -- Guidelines of MPLADS -- Fund allocations -- Excess expenditure -- Public audit and public accounts committee -- Audit reports on the scheme -- Parliamentary committee on MPLADS -- Response by parliament to audit reports -- Evaluation report -- Perils of parallel planning -- Assault on the constitution -- Parliamentary and judiciary control -- Political Bias and the MPLAD scheme -- Inherent shortcomings of the scheme -- Distortion of democratic decentralization