Union Minister of State Rao Inderjit seeks CBI probe into Gurugram waste exigency

Sumedha Sharma

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Gurugram, July 22

Gurugram MP and Union Minister of State Rao Inderjit Singh has accused officials of conniving with the waste management concessionaire that led to solid waste exigency in the city and demanded a CBI investigation into the matter.

Rao Inderjit, in a letter to Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini has asked him to get the central agency to inquire how the concessionaire continued to flout all terms of the contract and push the city to solid waste exigency, but kept getting extensions and payments to the tune of Rs 350 crore.

“It hints at a strong connivance between the government, officials and Ecogreen. The concessionaire kept on flouting all norms and failed to deliver promised assets like waste-to-energy plant. However, it managed to get extensions and bills cleared even as the city suffered,” read the letter (a copy of which is with The Tribune).

Rao Inderjit, who has been vocal in past over failure of the state government to deal with sanitation crises, which eventually converted into exigencies, wants an answer to lack of action and patronage to the concessionaire even as Gurugram turned ‘Kudagram’.

The Gurugram MP said he was flooded with the demand for CBI investigation into the same by RWAs and former councillors even during the Lok sabha elections. With the state’s biggest revenue generating city facing the mess, the inquiry was inevitable.

Rao also highlighted that people who had been suffering for years now had shown their angst in the Lok Sabha and deserved a resolution and justice.

“With Ecogreen entrusted with waste management, Gurugram has been suffering. People have expressed their angst over the issue in the Lok Sabha elections as well. The RWAs and former councillors have repeatedly been demanding an independent inquiry on how, while the company made the city suffer, it still managed to get extension and every single bill cleared. They have been paid Rs 350 crore while they delivered nothing. Complaints started coming in right after 2019, but it kept getting extensions and money. We need to investigate what delayed cancellation of its tender till 2023,” added the letter.

Firm was paid Rs 350 cr for nothing

The concessionaire kept on flouting all norms… it managed to get extensions and bills cleared even as the city suffered… it has been paid Rs 350 crore while they delivered nothing. — Rao Inderjit Singh, union minister of state