Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad demanded setting up of vigilance and monitoring committees to ensure accountability.

Rajendra Agarwal of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said the scheme 'was not reaching the poor to the extent required, and the government should go in for afforestation in a big way under the scheme in view of the global warming'.

Communist Party of India-Marxist representative Ram Chander Dome suggested that the government should make spot payments by banks in areas, which do not have bank branches.