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New Delhi: Rajasthan Agriculture Minister Kirodi Lal Meena, who had earlier demanded the recall of a housing project in Jaipur as it did not have cabinet clearance, has now pointed fingers towards irregularities in the implementation of the Jal Jeevan Mission in the state..
In his letter, Meena highlights two key concerns pooling of tenders of the Jal Jeevan Mission, and embezzlement in quality and quantity of pipelines laid in villages..
The agriculture minister goes on to allege that the previous Congress government had committed many scams and irregularities in the Jal Jeevan Mission, and asks the current Bhajan Lal government to ensure that no officer of the department can indulge in corruption even if he wants to...
According to Meena, under the previous government, firms pooled (cartel) tenders worth about Rs 20,000 crore at high rates under political and administrative protection, but due to the irregularities being exposed by our party, the Congress government cancelled the tenders...
In his letter, Meena further points to the embezzlement in quality and quantity of pipelines laid in villages, adding that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had found that a scam was perpetrated by two Jaipur based firms.. then Lok Sabha MP Baba Balaknath had expressed apprehensions of a scam worth Rs 1,500 crore in his district alone to the central and state governments, he says.. He also cited the example of how contractors are being paid without the pipelines being made, a clear violation of the central governments guidelines...
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