Mumbai: BMC has spent Rs 7,000 Crore on Desilting work and Stormwater Drain (SWD) projects in a decade, showing the Civic Agency data in replying to the RHOP application (RTI).
Further data shows that from RS 7,000 Crore, RS 1,000 Crore has been spent to benefit Nullah and the Mithi River.
The Thesvegththe RS 7,000-Crore spends flood mitigation and prevents waterlogging preventing in Mumbai show that a lot of money has flowed in the last 10 years when Mumbai is still flooding the monsoon.
There are no lessons that seem to be learned from fraud peeping 2015.
Chronic flood spots, such as Hindmata and Subway Milan, continue to walk under and new flood spots added every year.
BMC must appoint an independent auditor to check desilting works and get their actions together.
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“Head of BMC Iqbal Chahal has made Bogus claim that the municipality has carried out 114% desilting in 2020 and 104% desilting in 2021.
The claim is hollow; the city flooded even when it rained for several hours,” said Satam.
“This is nothing but abusing taxpayers to fund contractors and get kickback,” he thought.
According to Satam, within a period of 10 years, BMC has spent almost 1,000 crore RS to infuse the Mithi River (RS 140 Crore), Nullah Besar (RS 460 Crore), Nullah under the railroad (rs 26.6 crore) and minor Nullah (Rs 338 Crore).
“In addition, BMC has spent 6,000 crore Rs on SWD projects such as station pumps and river widening.
All of these money is truly lost.” The Supplementary City Commissioner (project) P Velatan refused to comment on Satam’s claims.
In June, after the BJP allegations that the municipality had failed to clean up the city in front of the Monsun, BMC had claimed that it was removed about 3.24 lakh tons of lanau and completed 104% of desel works.
According to BMC officials, more than 3.2 lakh tons of mud were removed from the city channel instead of the target of 3.1 lakh tons.
In other Plea RTI by Satam, in January, BMC said that the department of the road had spent more than RS 21,000 Crore on improvement, road maintenance and road construction since 1997.
Data also shows that maximum money -Rs 3,201 crore-spent between 2013 and 2014 .
After that, in 2015, road fraud towards light, raising questions for expenses.
Free Flood Mum: Within 10 years, BMC spends RS 7K CR
