Old relationship between Kejriwal govt and scams through companies: BJP
Sachdeva further claimed that back in the year 2018, Kejriwal's associate Surendra Bansal's company was implicated in a fake bill scam of P.W.D.
The Delhi government is mulling requesting Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal to hand over Kathputli Colony here to the city-government-administered Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) for rehabilitation of its displaced residents, informed sources said.
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA), of which Baijal is the Chairman, had demolished the colony in October 2017 for redevelopment and the incident triggered violence.
The DDA had handed over rehabilitation of the Kathputli Colony, in west Delhi, to a private company, Raheja Developers, in 2007.
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An official close to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal told IANS that no work has been done in the colony in the past nine years and the government proposes to ask Baijal to hand over the colony’s rehabilitation work to DUSIB.
“The 13 acres of land (Kathputli Colony) worth Rs 1,000 crore was handed over to Raheja Developers for Rs 6 crore and they have not done anything in the past nine years. This is a scam,” the official said.
On Thursday, Kejriwal had written to Baijal asking him to hand over 333 slum clusters on DDA land in the city to the Delhi government for rehabilitation.
“Of this 13 acres (Kathputli Colony), a huge portion of land will be used by the private builder (Raheja Developers) for construction and sale of a large number of flats and commercial space in open market to private people in this prime location of Delhi,” Kejriwal had written in his letter to Baijal.
The official said the developer would earn a “profit of Rs 700 crore” through this and said that if handed over to the government, they would make more flats available to the public and save crores of rupees of public money.
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