The suggestion of PWD Minister Brijmohan Agrawal that the Centre must hand over national highway (NH) projects to the state government is ridiculous. It is an irony that the government, despite incapable of handling the state highways, wants control over NH projects from the scratch. The stinging remarks were made by former Congress president Dhanendra Sahu just a day after Agrawal gave his suggestion during the conference on ‘Public Private Partnership (PPP) in National Highways - Challenges and Opportunities’ organised by the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways with the assistance of the Planning Commission of India on September 12, 2011 at New Delhi.
“The condition of national highways is much better than the state roads. In fact, corruption is brimming in road construction projects under the PWD. This has resulted in rapid deterioration of roads after their construction,” Sahu said.
He says that the government makes provision of bulky budget for road construction works every year but the roads vanish quickly leaving behind potholes and dust because of nexus between the PWD officials and contractors.
“The minister, instead of giving wrong advices to the Centre, must first uproot corruption from his own department and ensure that the road projects of PWD must be of good quality,” he said.
Cong to submit charge sheet against BJP govt to Prez tomorrow
The state Congress will submit long charge sheet with documental evidence against the BJP government to President Pratibha Patil at 12 pm on September 15 in New Delhi. A charge sheet will be handed over by a large delegation of party leaders for which the selected ones would fly to national capital on Wednesday.
The charge sheet was finalised in three phase. First a long charge sheet was prepared by the party’s five-member sub-committee in its three-round meeting. Thereafter, the PCC president Nandkumar Patel and leader of Congress Legislators Party (CLP) Ravindra Choubey filtered complaints and prepared the shorter version of the list. In the end, the state Congress general secretary incharge BK Hariprasada finalised the charge sheet approving about ten complaints the evidences of which were collected through RTI (Right to Information) and other modes.
The main complaints in the charge sheet are government’s alleged decision to sell coal and iron blocks, forcible acquisition of agricultural lands to provide them to the industrialists to establish power plants, selling of river water and dam, corruption in sale-purchase of electricity, misuse of funds of Centrally-sponsored schemes, failure to tackle naxal menace, etc.
Both Patel and Choubey say that the BJP government has become synonym of corruption and scams in the past seven years. They said the government was anti-people and pro-industrialists.
Besides the Patel and Choubey, the delegation will comprise of Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Charan Das Mahant, AICC treasurer Motilal Vora, Rajya Sabha MP Mohsina Kidwai, Ingrid Mcleod, Vidya Charan Shukla, Ajit Jogi, Mohammad Akbar, Dharamjeet Singh, Amarjeet Bhagat, TS Singhdeo, Rampukar Singh, Bodhram Kanwar, Dr Premsai Singh, Agni Chandrakar, Kuldeep Juneja, Devendra Bahadur Singh, Paresh Bagbahra, Dr Haridas Bhardwaj, Bholaram Sahu, Kawasi Lakhma, Badruddin Quraishi, Bhajan Singh Nirankari, Jaisingh Agrawal, Padma Ghanshyam Manhar, Ambika Markam, Saroja Rathore, Dr Shivkumar Daharia, Ramdayal Uike, Dhanendra Sahu, Subhash Sharma, Rajendra Tiwari, Ramesh Varlyani, Abdul Hameed Hayat, Govindlal Vora and other party leaders.
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