The members of district planning committee created a ruckus over lack of development in their areas during the DPC meeting presided over by Dehradun Minister in-charge and cabinet minister Madan Kaushik on Tuesday.
The clamour started when some of the members demanded funds for the new development schemes be approved for their areas promptly while the ruling party members insisted on such schemes being approved following work-plans being made to ensure their timely completion.
Vikasnagar MlA Munna Singh Chauhan accused the Congress- helmed previous government of approving projects without drafting work plan which resulted in several new projects approved in the previous years remaining incomplete. The developmental projects hanging fire amount to loss of Government funds, he said, adding that the pending projects should be completed first before new schemes are approved.
Meanwhile, the committee has approved Rs69.84 crore for various developmental projects for the annual district plan for the year 2017-18. The committee members were informed that one fourth of the total approved amount was given to public works department to complete the ongoing projects.
During the meeting, the members raised objection over allocation of fund in the ratio of 50:50 between Public Works Department and District Panchayat. The members demanded one fourth of total approved fund given to the public works department as given in the previous year.
Some members talked about equal distribution of funds among District Panchayat, Municipal Corporations and Municipal Corporation Councils.
Municipal corporation council, Rishikesh member Vikas Tevtiya informed that despite allocation of one fourth of total approved fund to the public works department, additional fund of Rs one crore was given the same department PWD. The members demanded that Rsone crore which was approved for PWD department in the last year should be allocated to newly appointed members for completing developmental projects in their areas.
Among those present at the meeting were district panchayat president Chaman Singh, MlA, Vikasnagar Munna Singh, Sahaspur MlA Sahdev Pundir, Cantt MlA Harbans Kapoor, Rajpur MlA Khanjan Das, Raipur MlA Umesh Sharma Kau, DM SA Murugesan, chief development officer GS Rawat and district economic and statistics officer BS Parmar.