Expose and punish irresponsible ones allowing ex-Parliamentarians overstaying in government-accommodations resulting rupees 24 crores spent in transit-accommodation for new Lok Sabha members
By SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL
Nothing can improve in this country until responsibility fixed and guilty ones punished in governance for violation of rules. Supreme Court verdict dated 05.07.2013 in the matter ‘SD Bandi vs Divisional Traffic Officer, KSRTC & others’ (Civil Appeal number 4064 of 2004) specifically desired against over-occupation of government-bungalows after one month of losing entitlement with a grace of maximum one more month.
RTI response reveals that even in case of present Lok Sabha, already 24 cores has been spent till 22.05.2015 on providing transit-accommodation to members of new Lok Sabha, because authorities failed to get government-accommodations from former Lok Sabha members in stipulated 30 days (plus maximum 30 days of grace) in time.
On the contrary we have ideals like Shabana Azmi who went to attend her last day in Rajya Sabha after vacating her government-accommodation rightly stating that she would lose entitlement to retain it after she ceased to retain her membership of Rajya Sabha. We note children of new Prime Minister in Britain pushing their luggage at Prime Minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street (London) only because earlier Prime Minister vacated official residence immediately after losing post.
Money spent of transit-accommodation of new members of Lok Sabha should be recovered from former Parliamentarians overstaying in government-accommodations, and those in government who failed in their duty to get government-accommodations evicted from erring members of earlier Lok Sabha not vacating government-accommodations in stipulated time also as a deterrent against such over-occupation of government-accommodations in future.
