Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva on Monday demanded CBI probe into alleged Delhi Jal Board(DJB) scam and other scams and claimed the DJB scam is bigger than the liquor scam. Delhi Jal Board has become the main center of corruption of the present regime, he said.
Stating this, BJP leader said his party has been saying for a long time that the scam of Delhi Jal Board is bigger than the liquor scam and ruling party leaders have always tried to avoid it.
He said the Finance Department of the Delhi Government has informed the Supreme Court that in the last 9 years, there is an amount of Rs. 28,400 crores for which there is no account.
Sachdeva said the game of scams that started in Jal Board since 2013 has reached a point where now the Jal Board is drowned in debts of Rs 73,000 crores and a plan has also been made to cheat the people of Delhi for its repayment.
He said on one hand, Delhi's Water Minister Atishi says that they are not being given money, while on the other hand, the audit of the Jal Board's accounts has not been done since 2016-17.
Atishi should understand that it is illegal to give money to any government department indefinitely without an audit, and that is why today the situation in the Jal Board has become like a scam, Sachdeva said.
Delhi BJP President said the information revealed in the letter written by Atishi on March 9 has exposed many things. According to the information received from the letter, 59% water generates no revenue and there is no transparency on the use of additional 15% water.
Today, 74% of water is not accounted for in the Delhi Jal Board. That is, only 26% of the raw water is generating funds for DJB. Not only this, the accounts of 2021-22 are also missing.Sachdeva said the Kejriwal government recovers its economic losses by increasing the tax charge on the people of Delhi by 5% per year.
Therefore, the water infrastructure charge was increased four days ago in the residential areas. In October 16, 2020, the expenditure in 200 square meters was Rs 2,15,200, which has now become Rs 3,44,320. Not only this, commercial property charges have gone up from Rs. 3,28,800 to Rs 5,16,480, Sachdeva said.
He said the reality of the water bill is that in the residential areas, 30 kiloliters of water costs 790 rupees, service charge 219 rupees, and then sewer charge 474 rupees, and both together become 1484 rupees and if we talk about per kilo liter of water, then it is 49 rupees per kiloliter.
