New Delhi, April 24.- With the capital of the
country forced to bear repeatedly the shameful tag of ‘rape capital’ and the
common people bearing the brunt of complete lack of accountability
displayed by the Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and her colleagues in the
government, Delhi BJP unravelled a ‘chargesheet’ which makes a fit
case for sacking of this government.
“This chargesheet shows that from law and order to
power, water, sewage, health, social sector schemes –the Delhi government has proved to be a disaster
on all fronts. The city residents should not be forced to bear the burden
of this misrule, hence we demand immediate dismissal of this government,’”
said Delhi BJP President Shri Vijay Goel.
“It is shameful that even as the city
continues to become increasingly unsafe, the Chief Minister has done
nothing to improve the situation,” he added.
“The Chief Minister and Congress
legislators and ministers always give this lame excuse of the Delhi Police
being under the home ministry. But the home ministry is also manned by a
Congress minister,” Shri Goel said.
“In fact her own party colleague Home
Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde recently exposed her when he categorically said
that not even once Sheila Dikshit has asked for Delhi Police to be
brought under the purview of the state government. This exposes the
double speak of the Chief Minister which is really condemnable,” he added.
The Delhi BJP President said that a delegation
of the BJP leaders would meet the President of India to demand sacking of
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and her government.
“If a government cannot protect its own
citizens, it has no right to continue. Today, none of the Delhi residents feel safe. And ironically,
the Chief Minister herself is demanding removal of the Police Commissioner even
though it is her party which is ruling at the state and Centre.”
Shri Goel said, this demand from the chief
minister is an admission that the law and order situation has completely broken
down and under the constitutional norms, this makes a fit case for sacking
of this government.
To add to the woes of Delhi
residents who are feeling unsafe, the Delhi
government has been brazenly favouring private power companies for tariff
hike. There is documentary evidence now which shows that the government is hand
in glove with power companies. The rampant corruption of this
government has been exposed. There is complete collapse of water supply and
sewage management and health services. In case of transport, the
government has been indicted for corruption by none other than the CAG.
In such conditions, this government has
lost the trust of the common people and the sooner it goes, the better it will
be for Delhi,
said Shri Goel.
BJP Chargesheet to sack Delhi Congress government
If the President, on receipt of a report from the Lieutenant
Governor or otherwise, is satisfied:
- that a situation has arisen in which the
administration of the National Capital Territory cannot be carried on in accordance
with the Provisions of article 239AA or of any law made in pursuance of that
article; or
- that for the proper administration of
the National Capital Territory
it is necessary or expedient so to do.
The
President may by order suspend the operation of any provision or article 239 AA
or all or any of the provisions of any law made in pursuance of that article
for such period and subject to such conditions as may be specified in such law
and make such incidental and consequential provisions as may appear to him to
be necessary or expedient for administering the National Capital Territory in
accordance with the provisions of article 239 and article 239 AA.
According to the latest data of
National Crime Records Bureau, out of 53 cities of the country having a
population of more than 10 lakh, -Delhi has accounted for 17.6% of Rape cases,
31.8% of Kidnapping & Abduction cases, 14% of Dowry Deaths and 10.1% of Molestation
cases. Among these 53 cities, Delhi
(4,489 cases) has accounted for 13.3% of crimes against women
The women-centric policing in
the city is almost absent as the number of women in Delhi Police is
woefully low at just 7 per cent of the Delhi Police strength. What's worse is
that they are usually given routine and inconsequential posts and are rarely
seen patrolling the city streets. Shockingly, of the 161 district police
stations in Delhi,
only one (Maurice Nagar in north campus) has a woman station house officer
(SHO), as per available information in December 2012.
- There are 4,809 women officers
of various ranks, ranging from constables to inspectors. Delhi Police
statistics reveal that there are 72 women inspectors - the rank at which they
are made SHOs - but there are hardly a handful of such cops posted as SHOs, and
that too at places like the Crime against Women cell, Rithala metro station and
New Delhi
railway station. Most women officers are found posted at the women help desks
at police stations, as PSOs to VIP wives and children or at the 3rd battalion
to escort prisoners between jail and court.
The
CAG report on Delhi Police has clearly said most of the funds earmarked for
modernisation of the communication branch of the Delhi Police were not utilised.
Physical implementation of Intelligent Traffic System could not be started due
to deficient planning, thereby, depriving users of the benefits of world-class
traffic system in the Capital, apart from unfruitful expenditure of Rs.7.5
crore, it said.
Missing Children: The city is not only unsafe for the women and
the girls but it has become one of the
most dreaded places for children and their parents also as a large number of
children in the capital go missing every year. As
many as 14 children go missing daily in the city. . In last two years around 7200 cases of
children being kidnapped were reported. This is another clear evidence
of the unsafe environment in the city.
Bungling in Ladli scheme meant for
girls
The CAG audit of the Ladli scheme.
Many of the Ladli beneficiaries were automatically dropped from the scheme
after their policies were not renewed. Only 73,108 (58.11%) cases were renewed
out of 1, 25,808 between 2010-11 and 2011-12. Due to absence of
monitoring, the scheme failed to support 42% of the beneficiaries who had
enrolled for the scheme after birth but did not renew it. CAG's survey
of some girls' only and co-educational schools in the city found that the
beneficiaries dropped from 27.17% in 2009-10 to 20.92% in 2010-11 and to 18.30%
in 2011-12.
Power
Due to
massive hike in power tariffs, the city residents have been forced to come out
on the streets to protest. Unfortunately, the chief minister of Delhi reacted by saying
that “If you cannot pay higher bills, then better to get your power supply
disconnected!” When delegations of hapless citizens tried to meet the CM over
this issue, she had another word of advice adding insult to the injury of Delhi citizens as she
said, “If you are getting higher bills, then stop using cooler and air
conditioners and use only one light and a fan!”
Lokayukta has sent a notice to the Delhi government for
allegedly providing undue advantage to Reliance Energy to the tune of Rs 129
Crore.
The
CAG has also indicted the Delhi
government for rampant corruption in the power sector. The CAG report rapped
Delhi Transco Limited (DTL), a Delhi government company in-charge of power, for
achieving mere 32.08 per cent target in augmentation of transmission capacity
from 2007-08 to 2011-12 and for not being able to recover an amount
of Rs.754.83 crore as transmission charge from BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd and
BSES Yamuna Power Ltd.
The audit report found DTL to have extended a rebate of `6.81 crore to discoms
on wheeling power (transmission costs) which was not allowed by Delhi
Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC).
The CAG also found discoms BRPL (BSES Rajdhani Power Limited) and BYPL to be
irregular in their payments of wheeling charges from October 2010 onwards. An
amount of Rs.754.83 crore was pending for recovery from them as on
December 15, 2012. The national auditor recommended bringing transparency in
tax collection so that such losses can be avoided.
The Transport department has also become the
den of corruption. In one of the recent scams involving a sum of no less than
Rs 200 to Rs 300 crore, while the contractors who were given contract for
clearing fitness of the commercial vehicles have been in jail, no action has
been taken against the political masters. Interestingly, this whole proposal
was cleared by the Delhi Cabinet.
According to the CAG department of transport
(DoT) favoured Delhi Integrated Multimodal Transit System (DIMTS) on many
occasions by granting contracts on nomination basis in non-transparent and
non-competitive manner. "Though a private company, DoT continued to accord
special treatment (to DIMTS) by awarding works on nomination basis in violation
of financial norms.
The DoT accepted the proposals as submitted by the DIMTS, without any
scrutiny," said the report. "Even when results could not be achieved
during the plan period, the DoT, without concurrence of the finance department,
awarded the work related to BRT to the DIMTS at a higher rate than that of
PWD," added the report.
The report said that there was an irregular
expenditure of Rs.9.25 crore (May 2011) to DIMTS without appropriate
approval of the finance department, which instructed DoT (in July, 2011) to ask
for refund from the company.
The auditor observed that the DoT
released Rs.42.89 crore to private operators for operation of four
clusters against the revenue collection of Rs.27.41 crore during
2011-12. Even as there is no end to the
corruption cases in the transport department, the public transport services
continue to be in shambles. Especially in remote areas of outer Delhi and in several
unauthorised and resettlement colonies, due to absence of rationalisation of
routes, the public transport is hardly available.
Water and Sewage
Delhi residents continue to wait
for sufficient water supply even as the Congress government has got itself busy
in privatisation of the water supply in Delhi. While the demand for water is 1050 MGD, the
Delhi Jal Board has the optimum capacity to supply on 827 MGD. One in every
four Delhiite gets 3.82 litre of water a day as against a prescribed 172
litres,
There seems to
be clear nexus between the Tanker Mafia and section of the government. Also,
the water tariffs have been hiked substantially in the recent time resulting in
harrowing time for the common people. 24.8 per cent of the households in Delhi were being supplied
water through tankers in the absence of pipelines. Per capita supply to this
population was only 3.82 litres per day against a prescribed norm of 172
litres,
The government
has completely mismanaged the water and sewage. The CAG says that the Delhi Jal
Board (DJB), responsible for the territory's water supply, has added only
1 MGD (million gallons per day) capacity of sewerage treatment plants, while
laying about 900 km of sewer line during 2007-12 with an expenditure of Rs
1,634.18 crore.
“The DJB had
not prepared any perspective plan for sewage management for XIth five year
plan, and could collect and treat only 367 MGD (54%) out of 680 MGD of sewage
generated in Delhi,”
the report said.
Furthermore,
there was a lack of equitable distribution of drinking water within the NCT,
the CAG said, “due to lack of reliable data on population and water supplied to
different areas,” and the absence of comprehensive metering of water meant that
“less than 40% of water produced was billed during last three years.”
Health
In New Delhi’s hospitals, “emergency departments were not providing required
services due to lack of essential equipment, medicines and adequate staff,” the
report said, adding that “all the test checked hospitals were lacking in
facility for purified and clean drinking water.”
More curiously, the CAG said that the 1000-bed Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital
and LN (Lok Nayak) Hospital, “have been using ambulances, mainly for
miscellaneous purposes instead of for the patients”, apart from the fact that
these vehicles did not have “essential equipment for basic life support
system”.
Underlining
issues at the Directorate of Health Services, the CAG reported that no
construction work has started at the land sites for 10 hospitals, ranging in
capacity between 60-700, that were allocated between 1997 and 2008.
Poor
Tax management
The CAG also
pulled up the Delhi
government for slow progress of work, non-finalisation of purchase proposals
and less release of grants to various organisations in its audit report of
state finances.
While the tax
revenues of the state increased by 21% to Rs 3,494 crore, the report pointed
out short payment of value added tax amounting over Rs 2,321 crore.
CAG has blamed
imprudent decision making of the Delhi
government in not getting the insurance cover on the basis of current valuation
of assets by Indraprastha Power Generation Company Limited, resulting in a loss
of Rs 2.33 crore due to under insurance.
The non-tax revenue, which constituted 2.06% of total revenue receipts during
2011-12 decreased by 89% to Rs 3,728 crore over previous year, it added.
Besides, the
report also mentioned that about 39% of the audited cable operators in the city
failed to pay taxes for the past three years. Moreover, the state department of
finance was unable to recover entertainment tax Rs 1.26 crore from 12 cinema
hall owners and luxury tax amounting to Rs 9.76 crore from the hoteliers.
Indictments by Lokayukta and Judiciary-
- In 2009, the Lokayukta passed strong
strictures against Sheila Dikshit and Rajkumar Chauhan on Rajiv Ratan Awas
Yojana. The Lokayukts had recommended the President of India to take action
against the two
- In 2010, the Lokayukta again recommended
removal of Raj Kumar Chuhan, a minister
in Delhi
government, for trying to protect a resort.
- In
March 2012, the Delhi High Court issued a contempt notice against Directorate
of Education
- In
October 2012, the Delhi High Court expressed its anguish over the slow pace of
work on Yamuna cleanliness
- The
judiciary has also taken the Delhi
government to task over BRT corridor issue.