New Delhi: Several Union Ministers, including Vijay Goel, Prakash Javadekar, Nirmala Sitaraman and Sushma Swaraj, have not cleared dues on their official bungalows till February, the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry said.
Replying to an RTI query filed by Ajit Kumar Singh, the ministry said Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Union Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region, Jitendra Singh also has outstanding payments on their bungalows. The amounts for Naqvi and Singh are around Rs 1.46 lakh and Rs 3.18 lakh respectively for the same period, according to the ministry.
These dues concern furniture and other things provided at the bungalows, an official of the ministry said.
The Directorate of Estates, which comes under the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, allots bungalows to Union Ministers and MPs in the national capital.
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitaraman had pending dues of Rs 53, 276 while dues of Rs 86,923 were not cleared by Javadekar till February.
Goel, who is the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, also did not clear dues running into nearly Rs 3,00,000 while Minister of State for Agriculture Gajendra Singh had dues of Rs 2,88,269 till February, it stated.
Responding to the RTI query, the directorate said External Affairs Minister Swaraj had pending dues of Rs 98,890 on her official bungalow till the same period.
The Directorate of Estates issues a ‘No Demand Certificate (NDC)’ to those ministers and MPs who have cleared their dues.
Among the several Union Ministers who have cleared their dues are Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Giriraj Singh, Babul Supriyo, Harsh Vardhan, Manoj Sinha, Mahesh Sharma, Jayant Sinha, Ravi Shanker Prasad, Uma Bharti and Smirti Irani.
PTI