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North civic body Mayor Jai Prakash on Monday said as much as ₹431.33 crore of the ₹432 crore grant released by the Delhi government over the weekend had been disbursed in the form of salaries to its employees across various categories.
According to the Mayor, salaries pending for had been cleared for most of the employees and the remaining would be disbursed at the earliest. “All sanitation workers have been disbursed salaries pending for March and April towards their salaries; we were struggling to get the Delhi government release this amount,” the Mayor said. He said the total amount disbursed stands at ₹154.08 crore, other D-group sanitation workers given ₹42.51 crore, paramedical staff ₹1.57 crore, and the C-group employees given ₹20.92 crore.
North body Mayor questions 2-month delay in fund disbursal
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday said the Delhi government had issued assistance of ₹1,051 crore for the Capital’s three municipal bodies so that the salaries of employees such as medical staff, doctors and nurses confronting the COVID pandemic on the frontlines could be paid.
Mr. Sisodia, who also holds the finance portfolio, alleged the civic bodies had not been able to disburse salaries so far due to “incompetence and corruption”.
North body Mayor Jai Prakash questioned the two-month delay in the disbursal of funds, which were to be issued by the Delhi government for the first financial quarter.
Delhi: 23 COVID-19 patients admitted in Hindu Rao Hospital leave without informing facility ANI | Updated: May 09, 2021 14:58 IST
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) MayorJai Prakash on Sunday informed that at least 23 COVID-19 patients left the Hindu Rao Hospital between April 19 and May 6 without informing the medical facility.
According to the Mayor, hospital authorities have informed the Department of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) and police about the patients who have left the facility without informing. 23 COVID-19 patients have left Hindu Rao Hospital without informing in the last couple of weeks. We have informed the DDMA and police about this. We have all their details and most of them are either home quarantined or admitted to other hospitals, told Prakash.