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Mumbai: Opposition leader Ajit Pawar on Thursday alleged a scam worth over 500 crore in issuing advertisements of various welfare schemes of the state government in 2017 and 2018..
He said that advertisements were given by the Directorate General of Information and Public Relations (DGIPR) without taking prior approval from the chief minister, who heads the department...
Pawar said that the chief secretary in his preliminary probe found the then director general (DG) DGIPR and then principal secretary, the social justice department guilty of irregularities as the approval from the chief minister was necessary for spending such a large amount of money on advertisements (Vijay Bate)..
Pawar also told the state assembly that the state finance department refused to clear the bills of the advertisements given in 2017 and 2018 after which CM issued the directions for post facto approval..
Even if we accumulate the budget of the five-year period of the Fadnavis government, the amount doesnt go beyond 125 crore, said Keshav Upadhyay, chief spokesperson, in a statement...
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