With an eye on the coming UP Assembly polls, the government has intensified its push for bettering the execution of the Bundelkhand package worth Rs 7,266 crore. Spearheading the campaign, the Planning Commission on Monday told the top brass of UP and MP governments that unless the package was aptly implemented, it would not serve the intended objectives. In the course of a two-hour meeting at Yojana Bhawan, the Commission’s two key members, B K Chaturvedi and Mihir Shah, who are the key members of the monitoring committee for overseeing implementation of the package, told UP’s top Planning Department official Rajan Shukla and MP Chief Secretary Avani Vaish that the shoddy implementation of the Bundelkhand package has left a lot to be desired. “We are concerned about the low level of utilisation of funds, especially in UP. We asked them to upload the entire list of works along with the list of targeted beneficiaries on their respective official websites within a week,” Shah said. The meeting comes days after Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia toured the Bundelkhand region and expressed concern about the tardy implementation of the package. He had reportedly pointed out that of the three years time limit given for the package, only 23 per cent of the works had been completed in 18 months in UP, while 34 per cent was completed in MP. Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has also expressed unhappiness on the execution of the package, holding the Mayawati government responsible.