Congress Deputy leader in the lok Sabha and Amritsar MP Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday announced that after the Congress party will form the Government in 2017, it will probe the “massive financial scandal in the Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) in Amritsar”.Capt Amarinder also visited some incomplete sites which have been causing lot of hardship and harassment to the local people.“The whole project has gone haywire and it is difficult to make out why it was conceived at the first instance. The entire project will be probed as it smacked of a massive financial scandal,” said Capt Amarinder, during an informal interaction with the reporters.
Maintaining that the project appears to be “ill-conceived” as its viability was not assessed, the former Chief Minister said that the whole aim appears to mint money without caring for the general public who have been subjected to undue hardships as the roads in over half of the town remain dug out making even pedestrian movement difficult not to speak of vehicular traffic.He said that during his Chief Ministership between 2002 and 2007, he had got Amritsar included in Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and massive grants had been sanctioned under this project.
“It helped in providing clean drinking water and improving sewerage system in the city. However, after Akalis came to power, they tried to shelve it and wherever they could not shelve the projects, they delayed it,” he said.Capt Amarinder promised that all unfinished and incomplete projects, he had conceived during his previous tenure, will be completed and Amritsar will be made into a world class city commensurate to the status it enjoys world over.