Right To Information (RTI) and social activist from the State capital Ajay Dube has alleged that the State Government is misusing funds of crores of rupees in the name of Jheel Mahotsav. Despite having spent crore of rupees over lake conservation, no remarkable work has been done during the past few years in Bhopal, he alleged.
Dube in a statement here on Saturday said, “We all know that nowadays, Madhya Pradesh Government is spending crore of rupees in Bhopal over celebrations of ‘Jheel Mahotsav’ in which experts from various parts of the country and other countries are visiting as guests. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is making tall claims before them and is befooling the people of the State.”
Dube further said, “I had been working on the environment conservation since last few years and as per my experience in the field I could the lies in the things the Chief Minister is saying.”
Dube said that Chouhan was chairman of the governing body and president of the general body of the MP lake Conservation Authority since it was constituted in 2004 besides the chairman of the State level coordination committee never called a meeting of the authority. This reflects that how serious and sensitive is he over the lake conservation and today he is only doing showoff over the issue before the world, he added.
He said that the documents obtained through RTI reflects that despite spending crore of rupees over lake conservation Madhya Pradesh Government failed to do any commendable work. The then principal secretary of the housing and environment department of the State Iqbal Singh Bais has written in the year 2011 in the file in which it was decided to merge the MP lake Conservation Authority in Environment Planning and Coordination Organisation (EPCO).
While merging the authority into EPCO the Government decided that a lake and river conservation cell would be constituted in it but the Government turned out to be liar because till date it has not acted on this decision, he added.