New Delhi, May 9: With chief ministers of non-UPA ruled states blaming the Government for inadequate release of funds from the Centre for various schemes, Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh plans to counter them by bringing out a 50-page booklet highlighting the UPA Government’s impressive disbursement of funds to the states.

In order to highlight the UPA Government’s record vis-à-vis the previous NDA regime, the booklet will contain details of financial disbursements to state governments in the last eight years, covering four years each of UPA and NDA rule.

The booklet will provide detail of funds provided by the Rural Development Ministry, under its various schemes, to each and every state. UPA Government’s flagship rural job guarantee scheme, NREG, is going to be a major highlight of the booklet, confirmed ministry sources.

The booklet, entitled Mulk ke maalikon ke naam — Grameen Vikas Mantralaya ka hisaab kitaab, will also be published in English and will be circulated across the country to drive home the UPA Government’s record in disbursing funds to states. However, the booklet will not contain state-wise details of physical performance of various schemes. Considering the buoyant economy and rising tax collection that helped the UPA Government to provide more outlays to welfare schemes, the booklet will instead limit itself to financial outlays provided to state governments.

Sources said that the minister was keen to bring out the booklet before the PM released the UPA Government’s annual Report to the People, which is released on May 22 every year.