CAG pulls up MCD for lack of amenities in schools
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07/04/2003
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Pioneer (New Delhi)
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India's 2001-2002 report has pulled up the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for its failure to provide basic amenities like toilets, drinking water, electricity, proper seating arrangements and uniforms to primary schoolchildren. The CAG report said the corporation has violated all purchase norms and spent Rs 5.37 lakh for procuring jerseys. "Free textbooks were issued in 66 schools only after a long delay in 2001-02. It also spent Rs 86.37 lakh on vacant and dangerous school buildings under watch-and-ward arrangements," adds the report."Between 1997-98 and 2001-02, the MCD did not spend Rs 56.60 crore meant for expansion of primary schools and other welfare schemes. The corporation also failed to provide uniforms to students during 1998-99 and 2001-02 sessions," the report added.