Municipal Corporations were unable to utilise funds allocated under the Centre’s Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) with the NDMC “failing” to spend a single penny out of the Rs 46.28 crore allocated to it, a study report says.
According to ‘Delhi Citizens’ Handbook 2016′ prepared by ‘Centre for Civil Society’, North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) received Rs 46.28 crore under the SBM for 2015-16, but the civic body could not spend a single amount and the entire corpus of these funds is “lying unutilised”.
Similarly, South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) managed to only spend 0.25 per cent out of the total received amount of Rs 31.63 crore.
However, out of 4,656 community toilets constructed under the Swachh Bharat Mission, most of them have been constructed by the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB).
