CVC to probe 22 more works

October 17, 2010 11:11 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 05:22 am IST - New Delhi:

Widening its probe, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is looking into at least 22 more Commonwealth Games-related construction and procurement works carried out by different government agencies here for alleged financial irregularities.

Besides, the CVC has found alleged misuse of official position by Raj Kumar Sacheti, Joint Director-General of Commonwealth Games, who is considered a close aide of Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi.

According to the information received in response to an RTI application, out of 22 projects, six were being carried out by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, four by the Delhi Development Authority, three by the Organising Committee and two each by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the Central Public Works Department, Government of Delhi.

One work each relating to the Department of Commerce, the Indian Meteorological Department and the New Delhi Municipal Council is also being probed, the reply said. An analysis by the Chief Technical Examination Wing of the CVC earlier found alleged financial and administrative irregularities in 16 construction and procurement projects. Six of them were done by the PWD, three by the MCD, two each by the CPWD, the DDA, NDMC and one by RITES, a Government of India Enterprise, the CVC report said.

The expansion of the probe by the CVC came even as it directed all agencies concerned to submit their reports by the month-end.

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