Terming the Budget 2017-18 a “hollow” with manipulated statistics, Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken said that the aspirations of the people has not been fulfilled.
Maken said that the budget is full of lies. “It is very strange that the Aam Aadmi Party in every budget claimed that 1500 new buses would be added to the 'Delhi Transport Corporation' fleet, 1000 Mohalla Clinics would be established, CCTV cameras will be setup and free Wi-Fi would be provided but nothing came on the ground,” he said.
Former Delhi Finance and Health Minister Dr A K Walia said that during the last year of the Congress rule, there were 39 hospitals run by the government but the AAP has not created a single new hospital.
“Similarly, three superspeciality hospitals were built in Congress regime, in which the AAP Government had promised to add more facilities but nothing has been done in the last three years,” he said.
Former Delhi Education Minister Arvinder Singh lovely said that the government claimed that 70 per cent budget on education had been spent is a blatant lie as till December 2017, 60-70 per cent on education had not been spent. He also said there was severe shortage of desks in the class rooms of schools in Delhi, and no provision was made to solve the problem. lovely said vacancies of 53 per cent principals and vice-principals have not been filled in schools. He said the number of average students in technical institutions which used to be 5000 had now come down to 3718, and the number has slumped from 760 to 441 in polytechnics and from 665 to 341 at the World Skill Centre.
Former Delhi Transport Minister Haroon Yusuf said ever since the government came to power, the transport system has completely collapsed. He said in the 2016-17 period, 32 lakh people used travel by DTC buses daily and the number has now come down to 30.44 lakh. Yusuf also said whereas 28 lakh people used to travel by the Delhi Metro daily in 2016-17 but only 25.7 lakh people travelled by the metro in 2017-18, though the target was 30 lakh commuters per day.