Delhi Government On Bhalswa Lake: Delhi Government’s Water Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj has raised questions regarding the Lieutenant Governor’s visit to Bhalswa Lake. In fact, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Vinay Kumar Saxena had come today to inspect Bhalswa Lake. During this, he reviewed the cleanliness of the lake and the preparations being made for tourism.
Saurabh Bhardwaj, a minister in the Aam Aadmi Party government, has raised questions on this visit of the Lieutenant Governor. He said, today the Lieutenant Governor went to Bhalswa Lake along with the officials and released some photos and videos in the public through social media pointing towards the lake.
What did AAP government minister Saurabh Bhardwaj say?
AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj said that earlier also the Lieutenant Governor had visited Bhalswa Lake in October 2022, pictures of that time and of today Releasing the latest pictures among the public through social media, he wants to show that the Deputy Governor started the work of reviving this Bhalswa lake in October 2022 and revived this Bhalswa lake in May 2023. He said that the Lieutenant Governor has crossed all limits of consideration. He is taking credit for the program run by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to revive the Bhalswa lake.
Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj, while verifying his point, referring to the work order issued by the Delhi Jal Board for the revival of this lake, said that by conspiring in this way, the credit for the work done by Honorable Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal ji Before taking over, the Lieutenant Governor forgot that he had taken over the post of Lieutenant Governor in May 2022. While on January 4, 2022 itself, the work order for the revival of this Bhalswa lake was issued by the elected government of Delhi.
Describing the process related to the work of reviving this Bhalswa lake, he said, the work order is a matter of much later, to revive any lake, first the water board makes a plan, then along with the DDA officials, that lake There is a discussion on revival, their permission has to be taken, then an estimate of the expenditure to revive that lake is made, then its tender is issued and after all this, a work order is made after going somewhere. Is. It can be inferred from this whole process that the plan to revive this Bhalswa lake was started in 2019 itself, for which the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi is now trying to take false credit.
Saurabh Bhardwaj also showed the NOC dated 17th May 2019 which allowed the Delhi Jal Board to work by the union territory DDA. DDA said, Delhi government should work to revive this lake.
He said that we have also heard that it is also being said by the Lieutenant Governor that the cow dung which used to contaminate this lake from Bhalswa Dairy has now been stopped by the Lieutenant Governor, but it is not true. Quite the contrary. He told that the cow dung coming from Bhalswa Dairy in Bhalswa Lake has been stopped by Delhi Jal Board by putting interceptors. He said that the Delhi Jal Board had got this work done with its own money by issuing a tender, the evidence of which is still present with the Delhi Jal Board.
Saurabh Bhardwaj made serious allegations against the Lt. Governor
Describing a very important point in this whole episode, Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj said, we have come to know that Brigadier BD Mishra, OSD to the Lt. 1 week ago went on a tour of Bhalswa Lake and by threatening to fire the government officials stopped an important drain related to the beautification of this Bhalswa Lake. He told that there is a drain near Bhalswa Lake which used to take the cow dung of Bhalswa Dairy to the supplementary drain, so that the dirt going into Bhalswa Lake could be stopped, it could be made clean.
He told that because the drainage of this drain which was in the supplementary drain was stopped, then this drain started overflowing and once again the cow dung coming out of this drain filled the Bhalswa lake, in reference to which the MLA from Burari Sanjeev Jha and Badli MLA Ajesh Yadav lodged a complaint in the office of Water Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj and requested to organize a meeting in this context.
He told that when the meeting was organized, MLA Sanjeev Jha and MLA Ajay Yadav complained that this drain has been closed by the office of the Lieutenant Governor by pressurizing the officials, due to which the entire Bhalswa Dairy has been destroyed. Cow dung was filled in Bhalswa lake. Verifying his point, he once again told that the minutes of the meeting are still present in the records of the Delhi Jal Board.
Is the Lieutenant Governor taking the credit of the Delhi government?
Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj said that with great sadness I have to say that the Delhi Jal Board and the Delhi government have worked hard day and night. Today the Deputy Governor is trying to take credit for the Bhalswa lake which was revived. He said that the Deputy Governor is sitting on a dignified post, he should encourage the government for such good works, and not take false credit for the work done by others. He said that such acts are being done continuously by the Lieutenant Governor for a long time. We were calm considering the dignity of his position. But now the Lieutenant Governor has crossed all the limits, so under compulsion we have to come in front of the public and tell this thing.