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| Will Govt excavate thousands of crores of public money from perishing Dal? | | Skeletons to tumble out soon | | Early Times Report
jammu, Mar 4: At present when the government is finally waking up to save the perishing Dal Lake, the old skeletons have finally began to tumble out of the closets and questions are being raised over the status of thousands of crores of public money that have gone down the drain.
As per the reports, the government and Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA) has initiated a rigorous process of dredging the connecting streams of Dal Lake and end the encroachments inside the famed water body.
However, what is intriguing to witness is the fact that why the government is not holding the people at the helm accountable to what they did to thousands of crores of public money sanctioned for the protection of Dal Lake. There are also questions being raised about who will hold the officials accountable to the wastage of public money.
According to the official documents in possession of the Early Times, under various state and centrally sponsored schemes, thousands of crores of rupees have been pumped into the lake's protection.
MH 3435, under Central Sector scheme Rs 191 lakhs have been spent on Dal. The breakup of the expenditure informs that Rs 34 lakhs have been spent on sewerage treatment works while as Rs 115 lakhs on catchment management works. Further Rs 27 lakh, the authorities claim to have spent on the infrastructure.
Under another scheme under the umbrella of the state sector called MH4217 and the amount spent in 2014 on the protection of Dal by this scheme was Rs 578 lakhs.
Through Prime Minister's reconstruction program called PMRP, the state government claims to have spent two crore rupees in just one year alone. The state authorities claim that they have spent this amount on acquisition of land within Dal.
As the illegal constructions see no end around this world famous lake, the government claims that it has spent Rs 1.5 crores on rehabilitation and resettlement of people living around the lake.
In a similar fashion Rs 2.72 crores have been used over what the government earlier claimed de-weeding and cleaning of channels around the lake. Rs 1.65 crore was shown as an expenditure incurred upon administrative affairs.
Rs 91 lakhs have been used through another scheme in one year called B.S.U.P-JNNURM. Rs 89 lakhs have been spent on sewerage system and two lakh on rehabilitation.
Rs 133.57 lakhs have been spent under Urban Local grant in the year 2014 by the state authorities. Rs 1.32 crores were given away as the salaries for the staff while as the remaining amount was shown as the expenditure upon the telephone bills of babus.
Ironically and shocking for many, the depth of Dal lake is now reduced to an average depth of 4.5 feet (1.2 metres) only while as 50 years earlier it was more than 45 feet. |
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