Coming down heavily on the Delhi Government, the three mayors of BJP-ruled MCD slammed the Government’s advertisement on MCD and said the Kejriwal Government has been trying to mislead the people of Delhi, revealing half facts and sitting on Rs2,501 crore due to the corporations.
According to the mayors, under the DMC Act, there are provisions of releasing shares on time but the Government, in order to defame civic agencies, has stopped releasing money which has led severe fund-crunch these days. The mayors also announced to move the court. Notably, the national Capital has been witnessing strike of sanitation workers for the last nine days over non-payment of salaries and other allowances. Another agency, Delhi Development Authority (DDA) refuted claims of Chief Minister, inter alia that the DDA owes approximately Rs1,500 crore to the municipal corporations. Earlier, the CM wrote to the l-G, that the authority owes more than Rs1,600 crore on this account.
Harsh Malhotra, Mayor of EDMC, said as per DMC Act 484 (1) sub section (iv) the government shall appoint a Director of local Bodies to assist the Government and discharge functions including: to resolve the functional and administrative anomalies or difficulties arising, if any, after constitution of the three corporations in consultation with the Commissioner(s) thereof. Mayor of SDMC Subhash Arya said the Delhi Chief Minister is misleading the people on the issue of release of funds for safai karmcharis.
