Congress MP Asks Centre To Push Punjab For Probe Into COVID-19 Corruption

Chandigarh:

Rs 41 lakh for coronavirus security kits that ought to have value Rs 7 lakh and didn’t even embrace N-95 masks – these are the putting allegations that the central authorities has requested the Congress administration in Punjab to shortly examine following a letter from an MP of the state’s ruling social gathering.

Congress MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla, who had given a authorities hospital in Amritsar Rs 1 crore from his Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) fund, a part of which was used to buy the private protecting gear or PPE, had flagged a “deliberate delay” within the probe in a letter to Chief Minister Amarinder Singh final week.

“It’s a matter of great concern that how heartless profiteers didn’t even spare us in these trying times and how management and office-bearers at different levels are trying to supress the probe and save the culprits,” the lawmaker wrote within the letter on June 16.

He additionally alleged that an IAS officer main the probe was transferred on the occasion of profiteers.

Seemingly unconvinced by the state administration’s efforts to analyze the allegations, Mr Aujla additionally despatched a letter to the central authorities on the identical date.

This week, the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation wrote a letter to the state authorities, requesting mandatory motion and a time-bound investigation into the alleged rip-off.

In April, medical employees on the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Amritsar had rejected round 2,000 PPE kits alleging that they had been faulty and never embrace N-95 masks. They additionally accused authorities of paying round Rs 41 lakh for the kits, which in response to the employees mustn’t have value greater than Rs 7 lakh.

Punjab reported two extra deaths from coronavirus on Friday, taking the rely to 122, whereas 188 recent circumstances pushed the an infection tally within the state to 4,957. Amritsar is on the prime the COVID-19 tally within the state with 852 coronavirus circumstances.