NCP claims ACB to inquire Davos meet spending
NCP has demanded an investigation by Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) into the massive expenditure incurred by a delegation of senior bureaucrats led by Additional Chief Secretary (industries) Satish Gavai for its visit to Davos during the World Economi Forum meet from January 21-25.
Nawab Malik, an NCP spokesperson says while the Gavai-led delegation incurred an expenditure of over Rs 7.6 crore, when CM Devendra Fadnavis attended the forum in 2015 and 2018, he had incurred expenditure of Rs 89 lakh and Rs 1.9 crore respectively. Malik adds that the NCP will also knock at the doors of the Lok Ayukta to demand a probe against the delegation.
Malik stresses on the Rs 7.6-crore expenditure saying that Rs 10 lakh was paid by credit card, Rs 1.5 lakh was paid by credit card, Rs 1.5 lakh for daily allowance, over Rs 2.3 crore for hotel charges, Rs 15.6 lakh for air ticket, insurance and visa, Rs 1.6 crore for advertisement and printing expenses, Rs 2.7 crore for meeting industrialists, Rs 62.8 lakh for car charges and Rs 4.1 lakh for other expenses.
The expenditure will be paid by MIDC. The MIDC had hired agencies abroad for making arrangements for the delegation comprising Gavai, MIDC Chief Executive Officer P Anabalagan, Cidco Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, General Manager (marketing) and OSD (industries).
An MIDC bureaucrat has claimed that all arrangements and bookings were done through an agency and the bills have not been paid yet. They will scrutinize the bills item-wise. The cost was high because it was decided to send the delegation at the last minute.
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