Nitish govt to use legislators’ development fund to ramp up health infra, RJD responds
RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday hit out at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his determination to use the Rs 2 crore legislators’ development fund for the advance of the state’s health construction.
In a letter to the Chief Minister, he alleged that the state authorities, as a substitute of serving to individuals of Bihar, is concentrating on “total loot” within the identify of bettering health infrastructure.
“Corona pandemic began in February final yr and the state authorities was concerned in corruption of 1000’s of crores of rupees within the identify of development of health infrastructure. The rip-off of testing kits, making of quarantine and isolation centres emerged a couple of months in the past.
“After one year of pandemic, the state government failed to provide basic facilities to patients in the second wave of corona. The Health Department has a thousands of crores budget every year which it has failed to expend. CM’s Relief Fund is also available with the Bihar government. Why is CM Nitish Kumar not putting details about the expenditure on the health sector in public domain for the last one year,” he requested.
“Now, Nitish Kumar desires to take away funds allotted to MLAs and MLCs of the state within the identify of the pandemic. I would like to make a suggestion that you simply must also embody MPs’ funds within the state. There are 39 MPs of the NDA representing Bihar within the parliament.
“Besides, the fund generated from legislators in a tune of Rs 600 crore should be spent in the health structure in the constituencies of MLAs or MLCs. If we allow this fund to merge with the Health Department budget, the chances of corruption is very high. Hence, the MLAs or MLCs should be the signing authority of funds before it is expended in purchasing of medical equipments, life-saving drugs, oxygen concentrators, oxygen cylinders, ventilators, beds at isolation and quarantine centres for the particular areas,” Tejashwi Yadav mentioned.
The Nitish Kumar authorities aiming to generate Rs 600 crore by means of lowering lagislators’s fund of Rs 2 crore allotted to each MLA and MLC. A notification on this regard was issued three days in the past.
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