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Kejriwal sits on Rs 787-cr green fund, puts onus on Centre as Delhi chokes

Kejriwal sits on Rs 787-cr green fund, puts onus on Centre as Delhi chokes on Business Standard. The government said it spent Rs 93 lakh of the cess in 2016, but there was "no mention of any expenditure" in 2017.

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Kejriwal sits on Rs 787-cr green fund, puts onus on Centre as Delhi chokes

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  1. Kejriwal sits on Rs 787-cr green fund, puts onus on Centre as Delhi chokes The government said it spent Rs 93 lakh of the cess in 2016, but there was “no mention of any expenditure” in 2017. Kejriwal sits on Rs 787-cr green fund, puts onus on Centre as Delhi chokes on Business Standard. The government said it spent Rs 93 lakh of the cess in 2016, but there was "no mention of any expenditure" in 2017.

  2. Delhi Air Quality : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday blamed the Centre for blocking projects as an RTI query revealed that the Kejriwal government did not spend even a paisa out of the Rs 787 crore it collected as environment cess since January 1 this year. As the capital city grappled with dangerously high pollution levels, the Right to Information (RTI) query on Wednesday found the Delhi government was unable to specify its utilisation of the Rs 787 crore green cess collected during 2017. The government said it spent Rs 93 lakh of the cess in 2016, but there was “no mention of any expenditure” in 2017. The AAP government came under attack from the opposition parties following the revelation. Delhi Smog Congress chief Ajay Maken slammed the city government and said they could have bought new buses with this money and also augmented total parking capacity of the bus depots. Lashing out at Kejriwal, Maken said: “Instead of using the money which is lying idle, he is busy aiming at other state governments and the Centre instead of doing his bit.” Maken said Kejriwal could have purchased road vacuum cleaners, as the dust “is the single-biggest contributory factor for air pollution” in Delhi. “When we were in power, the strength of the DTC (Delhi Transport Corporation) was 5,445 buses, which has now gone down to 3,951 buses. There has been a shortfall of 1,500 buses in three years,” he said. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) instead blamed the central government for its failure to spend Rs 787 crore of environmental cess and accused it of blocking the projects to control pollution. AAP’s chief spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj said they never said that the Delhi government had shortage of funds. Click to Read → Delhi Green Funds

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