The previous Akhilesh Yadav government is said to have violated norms by providing 86 per cent of the grant from the state’s ‘Gau Sewa Ayog’ for Goshala and cow protection organisations to NGO run by Aparna Yadav, sister-in-law of the former Chief Minister.
According to the report released here here on Sunday, 86 per cent of the total grant given was granted to Yadav’s NGO ‘Jeev Aashraya’ , which runs the Kanha Upwan Goshal near Amausi, owned by lucknow Nagar Nigam.
This information was given by Ayog’s Public Information Officer Sanjay Yadav while replying to a RTI by social activist Nutun Thakur.
As per the information in five years from 2012 to 2017 the Ayog gave a total grant of Rs 9.66 crore of which Rs 8.35 crore were given only to Jeev Aashraya, which is 86.4 per cent of total grant.
During the financial years 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15, Jeev Aashraya was the only NGO to be given this grant to the tune of Rs 50 lakh, Rs 1.25 crore and Rs 1.41 crore respectively.
In financial year 2015-16, Jeev Aashraya got Rs 2.58 crore while Sripad Baba Goshala, Vrindavan got Rs 41 lakh and in 2016-17, of the total grant of Rs 3.45 crores, Jeev Aashraya got Rs 2.55 crore while among other four NGOs, Sripad Goshala got Rs 63 lakh.
During 2017-18, Rs 1.05 crore grant has been given to various ‘goshalas’ till date but this does not include Jeev Ashraya. However, Dayodaya Goshala, lalitpur got the highest amount of Rs 63 lakh.
Thakur alleged that grant of almost complete money to one NGO in the State is a clear indicator of huge political nepotism.
Incidentally when Yogi Adityanath became Chief Minister Aparna Yadav along with her husband Prateek Yadav went to meet CM and when he went to visit Kanha Upwan the couple accompanied him to that Goshala.