Rs 1,000 crore set aside for women’s safety untapped

The Delhi Police is yet to get any benefit from it. According to the Ministry of Finance,departments and ministries are ‘identifying relevant schemes that can be funded.’

In a reply to an RTI query,Undersecretary of the Demand Section,Department of Economic Affairs,stated that “the detailed procedure for operationalisation of fund is being worked out.”

“No scheme has been approved till now and nothing has been utilised so far,” reads the reply.

Another RTI reply shows Delhi Police is yet to send any proposal to seek funds from this corpus. “The ministry has requested Delhi Police to submit a detailed project containing specific proposal along with financial implication for implementation… which is awaited and as such no fund is yet sanctioned to the Delhi Police,” reads the reply signed by the Undersecretary of MHA.

Delhi Police Commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi said he would check to find why proposals had not been sent.

Senior Delhi police officials claimed a proposal was sent seeking Rs 80 crore a few months ago, but the ministry sought a detailed proposal mentioning a list of projects for which the fund will be used. “The ministry asked us to conceptualise each project and give them a budget-wise break up,” a police official said.