Maya spends more on statues than on farmers
Abhishek Patni
CNN-IBN
New Delhi: If the multi-crore garland wasn't enough, here's more
embarrassment for the BSP government in Uttar Pradesh. A latest RTI
reveals that the amount spent by Chief Minister Mayawati on just two
of her dream Dalit memorials is roughly 3 per cent of the entire state
govt budget or more than the entire budget provision for agricultural
projects in the state.
Mayawati's claim that money spent on statues of Dalit leaders was only
one per cent of the state budget are belied by an RTI by her political
opponents. The latest information released by the state government's
Rajkiya Nirman Nigam Ltd, the nodal agency for the construction of the
memorials reveal that out of a total annual budget of Rs 1,33,000 (one
lakh thirty three thousand crore) earmarked for the year 2009 -2010;
the UP govt spent a whopping sum of Rs 4436 crore in only two of
Mayawati's dream projects – the Ambedkar park and Kanshi Ram memorial
– both in Lucknow.
This comes roughly to 3.3 per cent of the state's total budget or 11
per cent of planned expenditure.
Chief spokesperson, UP Congress Akhilesh Pratap Singh said, "Mayawati
ko priorities ka pata nahin hai (Mayawati has lost all her
priorities)."
The RTI's startling facts have given a tool in Mayawati's political
opponents who now allege that Mayawati govt is spending less money on
welfare schemes when compared to erecting statues and memorials.
In 2009-10 state government spent only Rs 6 crore for establishment of
homes for old women
Rs 40 crore for the treatment of serious illness of the poor.
Rs 12 crore for marriage of poor girls of minority classes.
Only Rs 378 crore for drinking water for rural areas
And, only 200 crores for housing of scheduled castes .
Recently even the Supreme Court imposed a complete ban on the
construction work in Mayawati's dream projects. Though Mayawati might
have easily got away after wearing a money garland before her millions
of supporters, facts revealed by this latest RTI have certainly
exposed the lost priorities of her government.
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