Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of discrimination against the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) — run schools and alleged that Delhi Government allocated only a miniscule part of the budget to them.
Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari alleged that while the Kejriwal Government set aside over 23 per cent of the funds allocated to education for 1,033 State-run schools, it gave only 1.4 per cent to 743 NDMC-run schools.
He also claimed that although the AAP government had earmarked Rs 4,696 crore for education in the 2018-19 budget, it could utilise only Rs 1,803 crore.
“Still, the remaining money wasn’t given to corporation-run schools. The reason is that the BJP rules the civic bodies,” Tiwari claimed. He further said that in the years 2016-17, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had allotted 3500 crore rupees for education which was later on reduced to 3104 crores, less by 400 crores and only 2666 crores were spent.
The balance amount lapsed but the Government did not allot fund to MCD. Similarly in 2017-18, 2127 crore rupees were allotted which was revised to 1965 and only 1677 crores utilized, the rest amount lapsed but MCD was not given any fund. In the election year, the education budget of the 4696 crore rupees, only 1803 crores were utilized and the rest amount lapsed but again Kejriwal Government did not give any fund to MCD schools.
