The Delhi Assembly has constituted three financial committees — including Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and Estimate Committee and Committee on Government Undertakings for 2013-14. A notification to this effect by Delhi Assembly Secretary PN Mishra has been issued.
According to the notification, Congress MlA Naseeb Singh will be chairman of PAC. The committee is probing the irregularities pointed out by Comptroller of Auditor General of India pertaining to 2010 Commonwealth Games and other reports tabled by the national auditor in the Delhi Assembly. Earlier senior Congress MlA Prahlad Singh Sawhney was the chairman of the PAC. Sawhney will now head the Estimate Committee which looks after the estimate presented in the Assembly.
The Committee of Government Undertakings will be headed by Mukesh Sharma, which will look after the functioning of Delhi Transport Corporation, Delhi State Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation (DTTDC), Delhi Consumers’ Cooperative Wholesale Store limited (DSCCWSl). SR
Meanwhile, the Delhi Government on Monday announced the start of developmental works in 40 unauthorised colonies. Urban Development Minister Arvinder Singh lovely said the Delhi Assembly that Government has issued orders for taking up development works in 40 more unauthorised colonies. The Government had cleared hurdles for initiating development works in 91 unauthorised colonies in January and issued an order for facilitating basic infrastructure in them.
“In total, we are taking up developmental works in 131 unauthorised colonies,” lovely said. These colonies are not yet regularised and Government is in the process of regularising them. In September last year, the Government had regularised 895 unauthorised colonies with certain riders, paving the way for their development on par with other areas in the city. The City Government had issued provisional regularisation certificates to over 1,200 unauthorised colonies ahead of Assembly polls in 2008.