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Rs 3 cr meant for museum siphoned off: Tura MDC

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SHILLONG, May 22: State BJP vice president and Tura MDC, Bernard N Marak on Sunday alleged that a contractor belonging to Chief Minister Conrad Sangma’s party – NPP – has siphoned off Rs 3 crore meant for construction of the district council museum that was released in 2015-2016.
“The District Council museum worth Rs 3 crore has disappeared from the proposed site. In 2015-16, Rs 3 crore out of the total estimate of Rs 100.71 crore was released for the museum proposed to be constructed in Sunny Hills which falls under my constituency but the same is nowhere to be found,” Marak claimed.
Quoting documents obtained under the RTI Act, Sangma said, “Ghost projects by contractors belonging to the CM’s party continue in Garo Hills. The work for the museum was allotted to Brilliant Sangma, a close aide of the CM, and the one who manages the party’s finance.”
He claimed that as per RTI documents, the museum was more than 50% completed but in reality it was non-existent.
“Similar to the dome that collapsed in the new Assembly building, the District Council museum has also vanished into thin air,” the Tura MDC added.
He said that would ask GHADC officials and the concerned contractor to physically show him the council museum in the coming week after his return from Delhi.

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