The Centre has released an additional assistance of Rs 37.5 crore for the Buddha Nullah cleaning project. This is in addition to Rs 50 crore earlier provided by the Planning Commission and Rs 16 crore provided under the bio-remediation project for the cleaning of the nullah by the Environment Ministry. In a press note issued today, the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister and local Member of Parliament, Manish Tewari, said he pursued the matter with the Planning Commission of India. The commission recommended the payment of additional Central assistance of Rs 37.5 crore. The minister said the funds were being released to the state government immediately, with the direction that these might be released to the implementing agency without any delay. Failure in doing so will lead to the recovery of the money with interest for the period of default. The Union Minister said: “I hope the funds do not meet the same fate as Rs 50 crore that we got released in August 2009. The state government is yet to provide any account of the funds.”