Shillong, Sept 11: Tura BJP MDC Bernard Marak has accused the NPP of misusing over Rs 100 crore for finding the party.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Marak said, ‘Our coalition partner NPP siphoned off Council fund and led GHADC to bankruptcy. NPP is funding their party with the GHADC money. The amount sanctioned for the development of Garo Hills area through the agreement signed by ANVC groups has been misappropriated to the extent that the GHADC was forced to divert around Rs 50 crore from the central fund for the salary. This violated the guidelines of NITI Ayog. The signing of the Agreed Text for Settlement (ATS) by the ANVC and ANVC.B groups took place in Delhi in 2014″
He said the agreement was intended to strengthen the GHADC.
“But in the last 10 years, the NPP-led government ignored the agreement and hijacked the projects and avoided having meetings with the ANVC groups. The funds were misused and most of the projects were hijacked and others left incomplete”, he said.
After signing the agreement in 2014 by the ANVC groups, GHADC received a special package of Rs 100.71 crore in 2015-16 for all round development of Garo Hills. More funds continued to flow to GHADC till date which were meant to be implemented by the Rural Local Bodies (RLB) and Urban Local Bodies (ULB) in GHADC ‘but the NPP- led Executive Committee misappropriated most of these funds and were used to expand NPP to Manipur, Arunachal and other states’, Marak alleged.
He pointed out that the NPP- led Executive Committee failed to submit the completion report and till date utilisation certificate could not be submitted to the Centre.
“Out of Rs 100.71 crore, the major projects were reserved for the close aides of CM who did not complete the projects even after 8 years”, he said, adding the council museum project which was awarded to party’s finance secretary practically disappeared.
“There were also duplication of projects and 40% of the centrally funded projects simply disappeared from the council treasury. Council today faces fund crunch because of NPP. NPP’s intention is to destroy GHADC”, Marak asserted.
