Delhi government to respond by next week

The report has indicted chief minister Sheila Dikshit for alleged Commonwealth Games irregularities

Delhi government to respond by next week

The report has indicted chief minister Sheila Dikshit for alleged Commonwealth Games irregularities

After slamming the Shunglu panel report, Delhi government will file a detailed response to the findings to home ministry by next week. The MHA has asked the city government to explain its position and the action taken on the report that indicted chief minister Sheila Dikshit for alleged Commonwealth Games irregularities.

In trouble: Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit with some of her cabinet
colleagues. file pic

"We will send our response on Shunglu committee findings to the Union home ministry by next week," a top official of Delhi government said. The home ministry last month had sent the report of the Shunglu committee to Delhi government, asking it to file a detailed response to the findings of the PM-appointed panel within a month.

Besides holding various agencies including the PWD responsible for irregularities, the Shunglu committee had blamed Dikshit for alleged bunglings in various Games projects. The city government, which already rejected the findings of the panel as a "product of paranoia", had sent a brief report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last month, trashing the report.

In the brief report, the government had rejected almost all the findings of the panel and instead accused it of deliberately choosing to adopt a logic of "convenience" in finding corruption in every policy and every tender of the government. The city government has already asked officials whose names figure in the Shunglu committee report to submit their response in writing to the government.

The report on city infrastructure was referred to the home ministry by the PMO for appropriate action on the queries raised by the Shunglu panel in works done by the city government-controlled departments. The administration of Delhi, being the Union Territory, comes under the control of home ministry.

Ghost of CWG
The Shunglu committee has submitted six reports on broadcasting, Games Village, city infrastructure, Games venues, organising committee and Main Report - Organisation and Conduct of CWG 2010.