The three municipal bodies have rejected over 70% applications received for constructing household toilets under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The government provides Rs 4,000 per household for building toilets.
As per officials, in 40% cases, applicants already had toilets constructed in their houses still they have unnecessarily applied for the scheme to withdraw money from the government. Besides, there were other applicants who have no land for constructing toilets at homes.
The municipal corporations have so far accessed 2,312 applications, of which 378 received from areas under North Corporation, 1905 under South and 29 under East Delhi Municipal Corporation. And after verification, the sanitation departments had rejected 1,643 applications.
“Initially, we were also worried about increasing number of ‘rejected’ cases and that’s why instructions were issued to the staff for being more careful during the verification process. But later we realised that the application was not fulfilling the basic parameters,” said Puneet Goel commissioner, SDMC.
For example, of the total applications accessed by the South DMC, an area (Lal Kaun) in central zone submitted 850 requests, within few months.
The situation is nowhere different in east Delhi which has rejected 28 out of 29 applications.
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