Shinde govt stays MVA projects for which tenders were not issued

Mumbai: The Eknath Shinde-led government on Monday stayed works sanctioned by the Maha Vikas Aghadi government after April 01, 2021, for which tenders were not issued for all district-level schemes of all departments. A directive from Manu Kumar Srivastava, State Chief Secretary, said this applies to the District Planning and Development Councils (DPDC), tribal sub plan, and special component schemes. The directive came on Monday evening, hours before Chief Minister Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis were scheduled to fly to New Delhi on their second visit to the capital.

DPDCs are constituted in every district and the minister in charge of the district is the chairman of this committee and the district collector is the member secretary. The DPDC prepares the development plans and gets it approved form the government, after which funds are accordingly distributed to implementing agencies through the Collector. District level departments implement the schemes. In another key directive, Srivastava also gave orders for the cancellation of appointments of all non-government members on state undertakings, councillors and committees.
It is the routine norm of any new government to stay all allocations sanctioned by the previous government as outgoing governments are known to sanction funds in a rush of Government Resolutions. As First India previously reported, on June 25, Legislative Council LoP Praveen Darekar had written to Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari seeking his intervention after the MVA government cleared 160 GRs in 48 hours, and sanctioned funds worth crores while on its way out.