Maha Lokayukta hears about ₹263-cr street furniture contract scam | Mumbai News

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Lokayukta has confirmed the charges against Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray regarding the allegations. INRA hearing in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Rs 263 million street furniture contract scam case is scheduled for February 2024.

Thackeray had claimed in March 2023 that the scam suggested how Mumbai was being plundered by Ahmedabad and Surat at the behest of the federal government. He quickly wrote several letters to the then BMC Commissioner IS Chahal. A month later, he sought the report of a three-member committee of the BMC, which finalized 13 street furniture items and where to install them.

“Despite raising my voice against the scam, there was no action taken. I wrote a letter to the Maharashtra Lokayukta two weeks ago and also submitted relevant documents. Today, the office sent me 2 I received a letter about the hearing in the month,” said Thackeray, who will be attending the hearing. Mr. Chahal and the principal secretary of the urban development department have also been summoned, and Mr. Thackeray expressed his expectation that the civic commissioner would attend the hearing in person.

Of the entire corpus, Thackeray INR$22 billion was awarded to contractors. “What happened to that money?” he asked.

He said he would also raise the issue of fluctuation in road bids before the Lokayukta in the near future. It also called for the public to see various completed infrastructure projects. “The Digha station on the trans-port railway line has been ready for eight months. So has the Dombivli-Mankoli link and the Uran Railway. But the chief minister, who also belongs to Thane district, has no time to assume office and the people We are turning a blind eye to the suffering of

Reacting to the Chief Minister’s claim in Parliament that various BMC contracts were awarded to friends of Aaditya Thackeray, the Chief Minister said: spoil my image. He is reading the script of the BJP. The BJP also knows its limits and gives the same script over and over again. ”