CM looks for probe into unused 5,200 cr. throughout AAP govt.

The Hindu Bureau

BRAND-NEW DELHI

Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday implicated the previous Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) federal government of having an “anti-worker frame of mind” and required a probe into why 5,200 crore in the labour well-being fund was left unused while countless building and construction employees waited for important advantages.

Speaking in the Delhi Assembly, she advised that the matter be described the general public Accounts Committee (PAC) and required rigorous action versus all authorities and ministers accountable for the lapse.

“The 5,200 crore stayed idle while the working class waited on relief,” Ms. Gupta stated throughout a conversation on the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report for the year ending March 31, 2023, on the ‘Welfare of Building and Other Construction Workers’. She declared that regardless of employees’ rightful access to well-being plans, lakhs were denied of privileges.

Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta referred the report, together with 2 other CAG reports provided in your house on August 4, to the PAC.

Charge enforced

Ms. Gupta kept in mind that while the Central federal government supplies registration and renewal services for employees complimentary of charge, the previous Delhi federal government enforced a 25 cost for registration and a 20 charge for renewal. “This unneeded problem resulted in a scenario where just 7% of employees’ information was restored yearly in Delhi, compared to 100% renewal at the nationwide level,” she stated.

Estimating the CAG report, Ms. Gupta mentioned that funds allocated for maternity advantages, special needs assistance, tool purchases, real estate help, household pensions, mishap payment, and ability advancement stayed either unutilised or grossly underutilised for a number of years.

AAP defense

Reacting to the criticism, AAP MLA Virendra Kadian implicated the BJP of selectively pricing quote those paragraphs of the CAG report that criticised the previous federal government. He stated the report covered a four-year duration impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, throughout which lots of migrant employees had actually gone back to their home States.

He included that the Kejriwal federal government had actually offered 5,000 each in monetary support to signed up employees throughout the pandemic.