New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Thursday summoned the commissioners of the capital's three municipal corporations to appear in his office on March 14, after several AAP legislators complained that they refused public works funded by MLA Fund.
Goel's action came after the assembly held a short-duration discussion on the city's civic corporations ahead of the municipal polls slated for April.
The Speaker said he had already asked the commissioner of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation to meet him next Tuesday but after various issues raised by the members, he asked the commissioners of North and South Municipal Corporations of Delhi (MCDs) as well to join.
Delhi Urban Development Minister Satyendar Jain said the municipal bodies were taking credit of works done by the Delhi government by installing plaques bearing names of former MLAs instead of the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lawmakers.
Goel seconded Jain and said even he faced the same problem in his constituency.
Attacking the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Jain said the people of Delhi were suffering for the last 20 years when both these parties ruled the civic corporations.
"Both BJP and Congress are two sides of the same coin. Neither did they work for the people, nor do they let us work," Jain said.
AAP legislator from Chandni Chowk Alka Lamba said the MCDs take money from the MLA Fund for development works but do not carry out the work.
"I gave them Rs 2 crore for improving the condition of narrow streets near Jama Masjid last year and they have still not started the work," Lamba said.
MLA from Model Town Akhilesh Pati Tripathi said the MCDs "keep the money from MLA Fund and earn interest from it but don't carry out the assigned work".
Malviya Nagar MLA Somnath Bharti said the municipal corporations often refuse work funded by MLA Fund. "And when we want to get that work through some other agency, they don't issue the No Objection Certificate."
Goel asked the MLAs to submit details of pending works in their constituency and assured them of taking up the issue with the municipal commissioners.
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