Lokayukta notice to AAP leaders Satyendar Jain, Manish Sisodia over report alleging cost inflation of 100 crores in construction of classrooms

The report, which came in the wake of a complaint by northeast Delhi BJP MP Manoj Tiwari and Delhi BJP secretary Harish Khurana, concluded irregularities in the construction of 7,180 classrooms in priority 1 projects and the construction of 12,748 classrooms in priority 2 projects by the Education department and the Public Works Department (PWD).

According to the report, the cost escalation of Rs. 100 crores compared to the original cost could only be done by the approval of the Cabinet of Ministers. However, the matter was not ‘deliberately’ sent to the Cabinet by an Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) comprising the then education minister Sisodia and then PWD minister Jain.

“The AAP government has conned the people of Delhi by showing them false dreams,” Tiwari alleged.

Khurana said, “Arvind Kejriwal must answer how rooms which were supposed to be constructed for Rs 5 lakh were completed for Rs 33 lakh.”

Responding to the development, the AAP said, “The BJP leaders’ allegations are unequivocally baseless, defamatory, and intended to maliciously tarnish the worldwide highly appreciated ‘Delhi’s Education Model’ and goodwill of senior leaders.”