Rs 150 crores spent on Mumbai's monsoon-preparedness!

June 19, 2015 16:07

As lakhs of Mumbai commuters bore the brunt of monsoon woes today, opposition leader in Maharashtra legislative council Dhananjay Munde sought a probe by the Anti Corruption Bureau into the alleged nullah( (sewerage) cleaning scam.

The rains caused water-logging in almost all low-lying areas of Mumbai and its suburbs including Kurla, Chembur, Tilak Nagar, Andheri, Parel, Lower Parel, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Dombivili.

"There's a huge scam in pre-monsoon preparedness work including nullah cleaning works. The scam amounts to Rs 4,000 crore in the last 10 years," Munde said. Where have the Rs 150 crore spent on nullah cleaning this year gone, Munde added.

"It is a huge embarrassment that the financial capital comes to a standstill in the very first rains of the season," he said.

Mumbai BJP unit Secretary Vivekanand Gupta, whose party shares power with the Shiv Sena in the state, also demanded a probe by the ACB into funds spent on monsoon readiness.

Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Sachin Sawant said the claims by Shiv Sena leaders on monsoon-preparedness have fallen flat with the first real rains of the season.

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