Team News Riveting
Raipur, July 20
Chhattisgarh Minister for Housing and Environment Mohammed Akbar denied a project in the heart of the capital city in which state-owned Chhattisgarh Housing Board spent lakhs of rupees for a work.
Former minister and BJP MLA Brijmohan Agrawal today raised the issue of land acquisition in the Irrigation Colony located in Shanti Nagar of Raipur. In the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly, he asked whether land in the irrigation colony located in Shanti Nagar Raipur has been acquired under any project? He also questioned whether houses, bungalows, flats, gardens and symbols have been demolished for the related project?
Chhattisgarh’s Housing and Environment Minister Mohammad Akbar, in a written reply, categorically denied any such project taking shape and said no land located in Irrigation Colony, Shanti Nagar, Raipur had been acquired for any project. He said that the rest of the questions including the structure demolished stood irrelevant as there was no project in plan.
Chhattisgarh Housing Board spent Rs 11 lakh on the project that the minister denied. The administrative sanction of the fund was approved by the commissioner of the board, who happens to be from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) cadre.
The officials of the Board could not be contacted for their version on the issue.
In the 66th board meeting of Chhattisgarh Housing Board held on December 9, 2020, the Board of Directors was apprised that the commissioner had sanctioned Rs 11 lakh under the Shanti Nagar Redevelopment plan. Ironically, the fund was sanctioned for removing the debris as the old dilapidated structure in Shanti Nagar, Raipur was demolished that the minister had rebuffed.
