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CBI probe into privatisation of garbage disposal sought

Staff Reporter

`Firms not removing garbage properly, producing fake receipts'

NEW DELHI: Alleging massive bungling of funds in privatisation of garbage disposal work in six zones of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has written to Lieutenant-Governor B.L. Joshi demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the project to expose "the nexus between private garbage management firms, the ruling Congress and the civic body administration".

Addressing a press conference here, Leader of the Opposition Subhash Arya and senior BJP Councillor Vijender Gupta said it had been more than a year since the work of transportation of garbage in the six zones -- West, Karol Bagh, Sadar Paharganj, South, Central and City -- was awarded to three private firms but they were not removing the garbage properly and producing fake receipts to get money from the civic body.

Demanding a White Paper on the issue by the ruling Congress, the two BJP leaders said the private companies that were using 170 trucks to transport garbage were being paid Rs.30 lakhs every month. Annually Rs.3.6 crores worth of public money was being "distributed" among the private firms, MCD administration and its political leadership, while people are being forced to live in unhygienic conditions, they alleged. Quoting last year's agreement signed between the civic body and private companies, they said the private firms were supposed to deploy two to three persons at each dhalao, but these companies were flouting all such norms. Similarly, dhalaos were not being cleaned properly, while garbage was being transported in a very unhygienic manner. There has been no change in overall scenario, but the civic body was losing crores of public money, indicating corruption in the whole issue, the BJP alleged.

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