A new football turf has come up under a Member of Parliament's local area development initiative, with Congress leader Shashi Tharoor announcing on social media platform X that he had inaugurated the ground built using his MPLADS funds.
What is MPLADS
The Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme, commonly known as MPLADS, allows every Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha member to recommend development works in their constituency using a fixed annual fund released by the central government. Elected representatives across parties routinely use this money to build roads, community halls, drinking water facilities and sports infrastructure such as synthetic turf grounds for local youth, and this football turf is reported to have come up under the same scheme.
What Tharoor posted
Sharing the update from his handle @ShashiTharoor, the MP wrote,
"And inaugurating a football turf donated from my MPLADS funds"and attached a link with further details of the event. The post did not name the specific stadium or town where the turf has been set up, nor did it mention the project's cost.
Public reaction
The post drew mixed reactions online. Several users welcomed the move, calling it good news for football at the grassroots level, and praised the veteran leader for staying active on such local initiatives. Others, however, questioned whether the turf had actually been donated or simply funded through public money, while a few asked for photographs of the completed ground.
