Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has asked the Delhi Government and the lieutenant Governor to identify areas and schemes in national Capital and implement the same but at the earliest. The Home Minister who reviewed the functioning of the various departments of Delhi Government and the Delhi Police categorically told the bureaucrats that their performance was being watched and they must come out with actionable schemes and programmes for the welfare of the people of Delhi.
If sources in the BJP believed, the BJP-led Government at the Centre is pushing the system to fast-track all the infrastructure projects and schemes, especially those which featured in the Delhi Budget and the ones announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be inaugurated before the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct. Since Assembly elections are around the corner, hence, they should work it out quickly and inform his office so that the schemes could be launched as soon as possible. The party wants at least 10 projects to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi so that the achievements can be used by the BJP to win over its vote base.
Top sources told The Pioneer that Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in a review meeting directed Delhi Government’s departments to complete the projects announced in the Union Budget this year so that it could be inaugurated as soon as possible. “Once the Model Code of Conduct is enforced, these projects would not be inaugurated,” he reportedly told the officials of Delhi Government. The Union Home Minister also expressed annoyance over slow pace of infrastructure projects and departments failure to carry out properly Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan, launched by the Prime Minister last month. The urgency of the Government can be gauged from the fact that Home Minister Rajnath Singh has asked babus to send fortnightly reports to him and directly apprise him of the problems so that these works can be completed before the December deadline.
The top projects and schemes which the Centre wants to expedite or complete within one-and-a-half months are: Enhancement of number of beds at lok Nayak Hospital and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital; a 100-seat new medical college at Rohini; 110 new ambulances fitted with state-of-the-art equipment; School of Planning, Architecture and Design at a cost of Rs285 crore in East Delhi by Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University; construction of new buildings for Deen Dayal Upadhyay College at a cost of Rs151 crore at Dwarka and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies at Rohini at an expenditure of Rs132 crore; sewerage system in 95 unauthorised colonies; piped water at 50 unauthorised colonies; pucca parallel channel from Munak to Haiderpur to be made functional after resolving the issue with Haryana; inauguration of Rani Jhansi Marg flyover; redevelopment of Chandni Chowk; allotment of flats to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and pension to senior citizens; food schemes for Economically Weaker Sections; and cleanliness drive.