The
Hans India: Hyderabad: Saturday, 28 November 2015.
Believe it or
not, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has been showing
exaggerated maintenance costs, some even running into lakhs, for vehicles that
are not even in use! For example, the maintenance cost of a Priya Scooter has
been recorded as Rs 25,000 per year and a Hero Honda as Rs 1.5 lakh, more than
the present market value of the two wheelers. Overall, the civic body has spent
a whopping Rs 530 crore towards maintenance and repairs for a period of five
years (2009 to 2015).
In response
to an RTI filed by the Lok Satta Party, it has come to light that the GHMC has
shown expenditure on repairs of vehicles, though most were never incurred in
the first place.
Sambi Reddy
of Lok Satta Party shared that the GHMC spent about Rs 530 crore between 2009
and 2015 of which fuel expenses were Rs 363.14 crore and Rs 167 crore was for
vehicle repairs.
For the 874
vehicles owned by the civic body, 99 are unfit but expenditure towards its
repairs has also been submitted. For example, the maintenance cost for a 20
tonne vehicle has been shown as Rs 25 lakh while a new vehicle itself costs Rs
33 lakh. On an average the maintenance cost shown per vehicle is Rs 72 lakh. Likewise
Swachh auto trolleys distributed in GHMC limits are registered in the name of
private persons with finance. The same vehicles are being shown in two
different offices which bear the same number.
The Lok Satta
Party alleged that the GHMC has swindled about Rs 100 crore on expenses made on
vehicle repairs and fuel in the city limits.“The vigilance and ACB inquiry
reveals that 25 autos are shown as tipper trucks, there are no number plates
for three vehicles and the maintenance cost of vehicles are so exaggerated that
new vehicles could be bought with that amount,” said Sambi Reddy. There are seven vehicles show in
two different offices bearing the numbers AP11W3658, AEY6739, AP9T9, AP11X6060,
AP11v5323 (KVD), AP29T0091, F/R 23244, he added.
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