Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday arrange a three-member inquiry panel to research alleged discrepancies within the allocation of Rs 877 crore by the Beed district planning committee when his cupboard colleague Dhananjay Munde was the guardian minister.
Forward of the state cupboard assembly on Tuesday right here, Munde, who’s underneath fireplace from the opposition over the homicide of a sarpanch in Beed, met Ajit Pawar, who heads the NCP. Nonetheless, particulars of the assembly weren’t out there.
The panel’s probe will cowl the executive approvals granted for initiatives underneath the district planning committee for 2023-24 and 2024-25 when Munde, a outstanding NCP chief from Beed, was the guardian minister.
Based on sources near Pawar, the committee will evaluation all accepted works and scrutinise their technical clearances, graduation orders, and fund allocations in 2023-24 and 2024-25.
The choice about establishing a panel has come after BJP MLA Suresh Dhas levelled allegations towards Munde a number of days in the past, and Pawar had assured a radical investigation within the matter.
Sources stated the inquiry committee has since convened on the Beed district collector’s workplace and sought information of all works undertaken over the previous two years.
In a put up on X, activist Anjali Damania stated Dharashiv deputy collector Santosh Bhor would chair the committee, which can embrace M Okay Bhange, extra director of the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, and Jalna district planning officer Sunil Suryawanshi.
She stated the crew had been tasked with analyzing the standing of accepted works, the technical clearances granted to them, and the distribution of funds. The inquiry crew should submit its report inside every week, as per the directive issued by State Secretary Sushma Kambli.
The panel was arrange after Pawar chaired the primary assembly of the district planning physique on January 30. Following this assembly, a choice was made to research the approval of works price Rs 877 crore undertaken in Beed within the final two years.
The opposition has been mounting strain for Munde’s resignation after the homicide of Massajog village sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh, as his shut aide Walmik Karad was arrested in an extortion case associated to the homicide.
