The 69 retired bureaucrats, underneath the aegis of Constitutional Conduct Group, claimed that the nation’s public well being infrastructure was crying out for funding and requested why this “wasteful and pointless challenge should take priority over social priorities like well being and training”.
The signatories included former IAS officers Jawhar Sircar, Jawed Usmani, N C Saxena, Aruna Roy, Harsh Mander and Rahul Khullar, and former IPS officers A S Dulat, Amitabh Mathur and Julio Ribeiro.
“However the specious reasoning as to why a brand new Parliament constructing is in any respect obligatory, it’s a matter of nice dismay that at a time once we are confronted with an economic system in perilous decline and a pandemic which has introduced untold distress to thousands and thousands, the federal government has chosen to take a position huge sums on a challenge which represents nothing however the pursuit of pomp and grandeur,” they mentioned.
The central vista redevelopment challenge within the coronary heart of the nationwide capital envisages building of a brand new Parliament advanced, authorities buildings for central ministries, a brand new enclave for the vice chairman and a brand new prime minister’s workplace and residence amongst others.
The Central Public Works Division (CPWD), which is executing the challenge, has revised its estimated value from Rs 11,794 crore to Rs 13,450 crore.
“We’re writing to you at the moment to convey our dismay on the method by which your authorities, and also you, as its head, have chosen to fully disregard the rule of regulation within the matter of the Central Vista Redevelopment challenge. This challenge, from its very inception, has been marked by a level of government highhandedness hardly ever witnessed earlier than,” alleged the letter.
“Of explicit concern is the way by which environmental clearances had been obtained for a plan which treats the inexperienced areas and the constructed heritage of the central vista as an pointless hurdle to the achievement of aims pushed by monumental ambition,” it additional alleged.
The previous civil servants additionally puzzled what locus standi the prime minister has to put the inspiration stone of the Parliament constructing.
“The prime minister is the top of the manager, not of the legislature. For a constructing that can accommodate the 2 Homes of Parliament, the suitable protocol would have been for the President of India to put the inspiration stone. This was a transparent occasion of breach of constitutional propriety,” the letter alleged.
Modi had on December 10 laid the inspiration stone of the brand new Parliament constructing.
The signatories additionally alleged “brazen impropriety” in going forward with the development of the brand new Parliament constructing whereas the matter continues to be sub judice.
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