New Delhi [India], December 6 (ANI): After questions have been raised over monetary irregularities in Delhi Jal Board by the opposition, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has ordered a CAG Audit of the final 15 years of the water board.
The objections and issues of economic irregularities and mismanagement raised by the finance division.
Speaking to mediapersons right here, CM Kejriwal stated “Opposition is levelling some allegations. So, with this, (audit) everything will be crystal clear. We have ordered a CAG audit of the Delhi Jal Board for the last 15 years. If someone has done something wrong, they will be punished. If there is no discrepancy, the truth will come out.”He additional stated that attributable to non-release of funds, an enormous drawback of water and sewerage goes to come up in your entire Delhi.
“If this entire bureaucracy is not accountable to the elected government, it will become impossible to run the government. At present, due to funds not being released to the Jal Board, a huge problem of water and sewerage is going to arise in the entire Delhi. They are not releasing Delhi Jal Board’s second instalment of grant-in-aid,” Kejriwal stated.
Previously, Bhartiya Janata Party spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of being ‘crime grasp Gogo’, a fictional character who dupes folks and accused the AAP authorities of discrepancies within the Delhi Jal Board’s (DJB) tendering course of for upgrading its sewage therapy vegetation.
Questioning the AAP authorities’s silence on the Delhi Jal Board rip-off Bhatia alleged, “There are many illegalities within the stated rip-off, however the ‘crime-master’ Gogo (Arvind Kejriwal) won’t communicate a phrase on corruption-related issues.
The BJP chief stated ten sewage therapy vegetation within the metropolis have been divided into two classes and solely upgradation was to be completed within the first class, whereas within the second class, the work was associated to growing the capability.
Delhi Minister Atishi additionally wrote to Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena demanding suspension and disciplinary motion towards Finance Secretary Ashish C. Verma for allegedly stopping funds of Delhi Jal Board citing non-release of funds can result in a public well being disaster quickly.
“As far as DJB is concerned, non-release of funds can lead to a public health crisis- soon and there will be large parts of Delhi getting contaminated water, sewer lines will be overflowing, water shortages will be seen. For a critical public utility like water, funds have to be released in a matter of hours, not even days, since it is the lifeline of the city,” Atishi stated. (ANI)