Alleged corruption in highway building tenders on the Faridabad Municipal Corporation rocked the Haryana Legislative Assembly session Tuesday because the Opposition Congress demanded that the state authorities should expedite the inquiry into the case and punish the responsible. The subject was raised throughout Question Hour on the second day of the continued monsoon session.
Responding to the questions raised by Opposition members, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar stated “directions shall be given to the vigilance department to complete the ongoing inquiry at the earliest”. Khattar additionally assured the House that “strict action shall be taken against the officers/employees whoever would be found guilty in the investigation”.
Apprising the House concerning the particulars gathered up to now, Khattar stated, “It is talked about in Rule 8 of the Municipal Rules, 1976, that solely 10 per cent enhancement may be completed within the building work. However, in lots of circumstances, there was an enhancement of greater than 10 per cent. This is as a result of the outlined interpretation of Rule 8 will not be right. Directions shall be given to the division to right this interpretation. If there’s greater than 10 per cent enhancement, then a re-tender must be completed. It was determined with the cooperation of the native those who the highway in query must be product of RNC and never of coaltar. Hence, there was a distinction within the fee of coal tar and RNC.
Yet, if there’s any form of corruption in it, then motion shall be taken after investigation”.
Adding to Khattar’s reply, Urban Local Bodies Minister Dr Kamal Gupta stated: “As far as the departments concerned providing related documents required by the investigating agency, these were made available to the inquiry officer on September 7, 2020. The matter was discussed during the meeting of the committee on local bodies and Panchayati Raj institutions and the committee was approved by the commissioner, municipal corporation, Faridabad that a vigilance inquiry was being conducted in the matter. The then commissioner, MC, Faridabad, had approved the subject matter and specifications of the work. The Vigilance bureau is investigating the matter and action shall be taken based on the vigilance bureau’s report”.
War of phrases between Geeta Bhukkal and Dushyant Chautala
Congress MLA Geeta Bhukkal and Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala had a heated change when the latter responded to the problem of the poor situation of roads in Jhajjar that was raised by Bhukkal Monday. As Chautala tabled the evaluation report accompanied with video and photographic proof of the roads in Jhajjar, Bhukkal repeated that she stands by the photographs that she had proven within the House.
At the identical time, Bhukkal raised the problem of the Jhajjar bypass that was but to be made by the state authorities. Replying to her, Chautala requested her to make the land out there for the development of the bypass. Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda intervened and identified that it was the obligation of the state authorities to accumulate the land and provoke building of the bypass. Hooda additionally added that it was not the MLA who had to offer land to the state authorities, however the authorities should use provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, purchase the land, pay compensation to farmers/land homeowners and be sure that infrastructure is created for the good thing about the folks.
CET for 28,000 Group C & D posts in November
The Common Eligibility Test (CET) for the recruitment of about 28,000 Group-C and Group-D posts in Haryana shall be performed on November 5, 6 and seven, 2022. Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar made this announcement whereas replying to the problem raised by Independent MLA Balraj Kundu in the course of the Zero Hour. “It has been decided to conduct the CET examination through the National Testing Agency and the date for this has been fixed on November 5, 6 and 7”, Khattar stated.
Ban on overloading autos
Opposition MLA Renu Bala raised the query of overloaded autos plying on state’s roads and being one of many main causes for highway fatalities. Submitting his reply on the ground of the House, Transport Minister Mool Chand Sharma stated “state government is committed to banning the plying overloaded vehicles in the state. During the current financial year (from April 1, 2022, to July 31, 2022), a total of 15,751 overloaded vehicles have been penalised and a fine amounting to Rs 66,48,36,100 has been recovered. Apart from this, 460 driving licenses have been canceled and 152 permits have been cancelled” assuring the House that particular checking drives shall be launched to curb the overloading in industrial autos.
Work in housing colonies
Dr Kamal Gupta apprised the House that municipalities ought to ship proposals inside three months on which work shall be accomplished within the subsequent three months. Responding to a query throughout Question Hour, Gupta knowledgeable the House that “structure plans of about 2,176 colonies have been obtained from the Town and Country Planning Department which have additionally been forwarded to the involved municipalities for taking additional needed motion as per the Act and norms . Action to inform the colonies below the ‘Haryana Management of Municipal Areas Lacking Civil Amenities and Infrastructure (Special Provisions) Act 2016’ after receipt of decision from the involved municipal physique and if the colony fulfills the factors laid down for notification has been completed. So far, 212 colonies have been handed in 11 municipalities. Municipalities are additionally verifying the structure plan of such colonies as per norms.
Recently, 4 municipalities have submitted their studies on 22 colonies to the division”.
“Haryana Management of Municipal Areas Lacking Civil Amenities and Infrastructure (Special Provisions) Act, 2016, has been amended on September 10, 2021. According to the amendment, the condition of having construction work on the first 50 per cent and 75 per cent of the plots in the new colony has been removed. Further, all the colonies have been divided into category-wise groups, which include colonies with a built-up area of up to 25 per cent, between 25 and 50 per cent, between 50 and 75 per cent and colonies with more than 75 per cent cent built-up area,” Gupta added.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
