The Delhi Congress alleged all three Municipal Corporations “misused” and “diverted” of over Rs3,000 crore earned through conversion and parking charges and demanded a high-level enquiry into the matter.
However, senior officials of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) said the civic body has been making use of the collected amount for development works.
“The three municipal corporations collected money from conversion and parking charges in past years. They have either “misused” or “diverted” it under other heads,” said senior Congress leader Mukesh Sharma. “Since 2012 till now, an amount of Rs3,084.03 crore was collected by the municipal corporations as conversion and parking charges, but instead of using it for coming up with multi-storey parking, the money was misused or diverted by the nexus of BJP leaders and officials,” he said.
Sharma said the corporations “failed” to issue tender not even for one of the 13 proposed multi-storey parking facilities that were to be developed from the parking and conversion charges.
“It also points to how protection is given to the parking mafia operating rampantly in the city. The multi-storey parking not only helps remove traffic jams, but also checks the parking mafia.
But the BJP-ruled corporations never allowed the multi-storey parking to come up in the city,” he said.
However, Leader of House in SDMC Kamaljeet Sehrawat said, “The money has been in safe hands”. “The money collected has been duly used for making parking lots in last several years, in areas like Hauz Khas, Subhash Nagar, Rajouri Garden, Munirka; and other facilities will come up as and when the projects get cleared,” she said.