Delhi govt to release Rs 550 cr for salaries: Kejriwal

New Delhi: In a bid to ease the ongoing crisis over the non payment of salaries of MCD employees, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday agreed to release a fund of Rs 550 crore as loan to Municipal Corporation for the payment of the salaries of corporation workers.
Addressing media persons in Bengaluru, he requested the agitating workers to end their strike as the Delhi government has made arrangements to release money for the MCD.
Charging the corporations with mismanagement of funds which were given by Delhi the Government, Mr Kejriwal demanded a CBI inquiry into the matter.
Questioning the management of funds by corporations, Mr Kejriwal said, ?In 2012-13, the NDMC got Rs 526 crore, it got Rs 556 crore in the next year, and Rs 545 crore in the year after that. This year, Rs 893 crorehave been given to them. The government gave an additional Rs 100 crore to the NDMC. Where has the money gone?
He also blamed the Central government for trying to create perpetual crisis in the national capital so that it can impose President’s rule as it did in Arunachal Pradesh.
“I understand the pain of the MCD workers who did not get their salaries, but what about the BJP people spreading garbage on streets” While BJP played politics over the issue, it is we who cleaned up the city,? he said.
Demanding the dissolving of the MCD, he said, “There should be fresh elections.”
Claiming that AAP would win the elections to the MCD scheduled next year, Kejriwal said, “Our party would win the MCD elections next year and clear the mess that BJP has created.”
Earlier in the day, unrelenting MCD employees escalated their agitation against the Delhi government over non payment of salaries.
Around 1.5 lakh MCD employees, including sanitation workers, teachers, nurses and doctors, are on the streets for over a week now for not having received salaries, arrears and other perks for past three months and blamed the AAP government for their grief.
The agitating workers also blocked roads and dump garbage at various places as a mark of resentment.
Protesters were today spotted bringing garbage in small trucks and then littering it on roads to cause inconvenience to people. (UNI)