New Delhi: Designer equipment and fittings price Rs 48 lakh, creative and decorative work amounting to Rs 5 crore, marble work price Rs 2.4 crore, sauna tub and jacuzzi price Rs 20 lakh, and over a crore price of fancy modular kitchen — these are the gadgets put in at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s official residence and camp workplace throughout a renovation undertaken in 2020, the Delhi vigilance division has discovered.
Even because the Covid pandemic hit in 2020, the Delhi authorities allegedly spent Rs 52.71 crore to renovate CM Kejriwal’s official residence, and camp workplace at 6, Flag Workers Street, in response to a vigilance division report back to Lieutenant Governor (L-G) V.Okay. Saxena. ThePrint has accessed a duplicate of the report.
In accordance with the 12 Could report, signed by Y.V.V.J. Rajasekhar, particular secretary, vigilance, the overall value of renovating the CM’s home stood at Rs 33.49 crore, whereas that for the camp workplace stood at Rs 19.22 crore. The report provides that a number of guidelines have been flouted and approvals weren’t sought whereas executing the challenge.
The report comes after the L-G took cognisance of media studies on renovation of the CM’s official residence and directed the Chief Secretary, Naresh Kumar, in late April to submit a report on the alleged irregularities in 15 days.
In accordance with the report, there have been irregularities in felling and transplantation of bushes by the Delhi authorities’s Public Works Division (PWD).
Additional, it notes that sanctions weren’t taken for the constructing plans of “such development/addition/alteration actions” regardless of the PWD’s Constructing Committee being in place to behave because the native physique. It says that the 2 revised drawings relating to the inside design have been executed by “Bobby Mukherji and Associates” whose appointment was “not formally executed, as per information supplied by the PWD”.
In accordance with the report, main modifications have been made within the drawings of the interiors submitted by the consultants primarily based on the necessities of “Honourable CM Madam,” which can (have) resulted in deviation within the whole work executed, quantity and sanctioned quantity of labor.
ThePrint reached particular secretary Rajasekhar repeatedly over cellphone and WhatsApp message for remark, however acquired no response until the time of publication of this report. The report might be up to date as soon as a response is acquired.
An Aam Aadmi Get together spokesperson instructed ThePrint Thursday that it’s unlucky that the Bharatiya Janata Get together (in energy on the Centre), after failing in all its makes an attempt to malign the picture of CM over the previous 9 years, is now targetting the latter’s residence.
“There may be nothing within the report back to say any crime was dedicated. That is the primary time an official CM residence complicated was created in Delhi comprising the CM’s residence, workplace secretariat, auditorium, employees quarters and many others. The BJP ought to focus its energies on investigating the Adani rip-off,” the spokesperson mentioned, referring to American short-seller Hindenburg Analysis’s report alleging company malpractice, inventory worth manipulation and fraud by the Adani Group.
“The CM’s recognition is spreading quick throughout the nation and Modiji is petrified of it…That’s why Modiji has unleashed all businesses in opposition to Kejriwalji. Modiji has not been capable of finding irregularities of a single penny thus far,” the spokesperson mentioned.
The Bharatiya Janata Get together’s Delhi unit hit again, nonetheless, with spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor telling ThePrint Thursday, “This report confirms the sooner statements made by the get together on the irregularities. It’s shameful to notice that Delhi Chief Minister’s bungalow is a case of unlawful development. It’s a case of reconstruction in disguise of renovation work order.”
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Irregularities in tree slicing, relocation
In accordance with the vigilance division report, permission for tree felling or transplantation was obtained on 5 events. This, it highlighted, was executed for lower than ten bushes on every event, as for any quantity greater than that, the next authority’s nod could be required.
For the bushes reduce on the location, 280 bushes needed to be planted on the DRDO complicated. The report famous that of the 280 bushes to be planted on the complicated, “solely 83” bushes have been discovered to have been planted. “There have been 60 pits with no signal of vegetation there, [which] might need died. There isn’t any signal of planting of the remaining 137 bushes at this website.”
On additional modifications inside the home, the report notes, “Modular kitchen, laundry and pantry have been initially not taken within the scope of labor however as per a gathering held between Honourable CM Madam, Honourable PWD minister and the guide, it was determined to offer it within the residence”.
The estimated value of these things was one other Rs 1.64 crore, says the report.
(Edited by Smriti Sinha)
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