Delhi & NCR: CAG audit shows no basic facilities provided in illegal colonies
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has revealed in a recent report sent to Lieutenant Governor’s office that the Sheila Dikshit-led Congress government did not provide the much-claimed basic services in 895 unauthorized colonies in Delhi before legalizing them.
Though the provision of basic facilities to illegal colonies in the capital was one of the tall claims of the Sheila Dikshit government, the CAG’s report – which will likely be tabled in Parliament in the coming session – asserts that, though more than Rs 3,000 crore was spent by the government during 2007-2013, it did not provide the facilities.
Nearly 312 unauthorized colonies were regularized by the state government on private land and 583 that were regularized on partly or fully on public land, but basic services – like water connections, roads, drainage, and sewer lines – were not provided. It was mandatory for the government to provide these facilities, as per a Supreme Court order.
The CAG report is based on the audit of the illegal colonies which were regularized by the Sheila Dikshit government. The audit has revealed that most of the settlements surveyed did not have basic services.
The report has revealed that while work to provide basic facilities had been initiated by executing agencies – DSIIDC, I&FC, SDMC, NDMC and PWD – in some illegal colonies and left incomplete; in other colonies, the authorities had not even started any construction.
Source – The Times of India
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