The Delhi Government has spent an amount of Rs 2,168 crore in the first quarter of the current fiscal year. The Public Works Department (PWD) has utilised 18.5 per cent (Rs 592 crore) of their plan outlay of Rs 3,202 crore on various capital projects in the first quarter of the current fiscal year. The fund has been spent despite the fact that no new infrastructure projects were initiated and most of the fund was spent on ongoing projects.
PWD officials said that PWD has spent most of the plan fund on PWD’s roads taken two years ago from the MCD. The Press release said that 13.6 per cent of the approved annual plan outlay of Rs 16,000 crore has been spent on the first quarter of the current fiscal. In the corresponding period of last year, Rs 1,864 crore (11.7 per cent of approved outlay) was utilised.