Nagpur: State Energy Minister Nitin The presentation before CM Uddhav Thackeray about the financial health of his department has now been dragged into a controversy about how to restore delayed contributions.
With arrears up to more than RS 70,000 Crore, the Raut is reported to have discussed the options of restructuring and restoring contributions through outsourcing agents.
The expression step has ruffled political feathers with former Minister of Devendra Fadnivis to call it ‘extortion’.
On his arrival at Nagpur airport on Tuesday, Fadnivis said, “the presentation of the Raut clearly showed a piled contribution to wait in their term.
But this contribution also includes subsidies given to agriculture.
The losses we have must cover tariffs charged to consumers.
But in this case, it seems that the land is being prepared to be forcibly recovering money from consumers.
“Opposition leaders also said that the government did not offer soup to those affected by a pandemic, but caused them discomfort.
“Because Covid, both farmers or commoners, this government only wants to force contributions.
The basis is being carried out for this purpose,” Fadnivis said.
In his presentation, the expression blames the government led by Fadnivis because of his inability to recover contributions that cause a large stack of arrears.
Meanwhile, the former energy minister Chandrashekhar Bawansule told TII that they had also inherited the same situation.
“When we form a government, more than Rs 23,000 Crore caused by various consumer categories.
However, we have never used recovery of contributions forced.
Instead, we try to provide a solution.
We have the guts to provide SOPs to citizens and even manage overall finance by means of the way That is much better, “Bawansule said.
He challenged the state government to make public balance sheets from all financial years during his term as minister of department.
“It will be clear how well we manage our finances without any consumer problems,” said Bawankule.
Raut does not respond to toi calls or messages.