DSGMC has misused gurdwara funds: Sarna

Tribune News Service 

New Delhi, December 9

The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee led by the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) has mismanaged the committee finance, failed to make a road map for the controversial 400-bedded Guru Harikrishan Hospital (GHH) adjacent to Bala Sahib Gurdwara and increased the committee expenditure, said general secretary of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Delhi), Harvinder Singh Sarna.

Running the GHH was the main election issue of SAD Badal during 2013 DSGMC elections. The SAD has been in the committee for about three years, but so far no road map has been prepared for the hospital, said Sarna while addressing a conference. 

The SAD Badal had also said that former DSGMC president Paramjit Singh disposed of the proposed Guru Harikrishan Hospital to a private company for Rs 300 crore. Why don't they make public the document of the sale of hospital, he questioned.        

He said that in 2013, when the SAD Badal had taken over the service of the gurdwara committee, Paramjit Singh had left a fixed deposit (FD) of Rs 98 crore in the committee account. Where the FD was used, there is no record, Sarna said. 

The DSGMC president Manjit Singh and general secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa led DSGMC is allegedly siphoning of money from educational institutions. Recently, the DSGMC transferred finance from SGTB Institute of Management and IT Nanak Piao to the gurdwara committee, he said. 

He asked for making public a report on the sale of working generators as scrap. The report was submitted to the DSGMC by its member Gurdev Singh Bhola. 

Sarna said that there were a number of generators in working condition worth Rs 13 lakh in gurdwara committee. But they were disposed of last year as scrap for just Rs 93,000.