Deputy chairman of the planning commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said that the panel would earmark more funds for the 'Project Tiger', specially for relocating people from the reserved forests.

"If there is a need to relocate people for implementing Project Tiger, more funds will be earmarked for it as shifting habitation requires lot of funds," Ahluwalia told a press conference after the Eighth convocation of the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM).

To a question on huge corruption in implementing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) he said that the Centre had no effective mechanism to check it and whenever the Planning Commission received any complaint on the issue, it was brought to the notice of the concerned ministry.

Referring to the allegation of Centre blocking funds under different schemes due to the states, he said that many a times second instalment of funds were not released due to procedural delays like delay in getting utilisation certificate and denied that the Centre had ever blocked funds meant for the states.

On Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan's allegation that the Centre was not providing adequate relief to the state, he said that Chouhan had raised certain issues in his last meeting and they would discuss it today as well.

When asked about achieving targets of the 11th five-year plan which is coming to an end this year, he said that though the targets are not totally achievable, the performance is much better compared to the 10th five-year plan.

One of the main reason behind not achieving the set targets was the global economic crisis of 2008, he said adding despite that the final results would be good.

Referring to a question on the difference in estimates of total number of BPL families between the centre and the states, he said that the centre's estimate was based on various reports and it had also formed a committee headed by noted economist Suresh Tendulkar on the issue.

If any state thinks that it has more number of BPL families than what is estimated by the Centre, then they can manage them (additional ones) through their own resources, he said.

On the Wikileaks reports that he took sides with Dow Chemicals on the issue of removing hazardous waste from the Union Carbide Plant, Ahluwalia termed it as totally wrong.

"This is totally wrong and the matter is in the court and with the group of ministers for a decision," he added.