Delhi Government is interested in publicity and not in welfare of the people

Now a day I am seeing Delhi Government's advertisements praising Arvind Kejriwal and accusing central government of putting hindrance to their so called great work. But actually a lot of public money is being wasted in these advertisements instead of being used for welfare of the people.

Government need to have some publicity budget to make people aware of schemes launched for welfare of the people so that people can avail those schemes but Kejriwal Government is not using publicity budget for that purpose. It is using publicity budget for putting political advertisements.

One classic case of Kejriwal Government's insensitivity towards people is that it put big hording saying that Delhi Government will take guarantee of educational loan's up to 10 lakhs for the students. It was a political advertisement because never on the advertisement was mentioned where to apply for the educational loan guarantee. Today is 16th July 2015 and admissions for most of the collages are over and I have not seen even a single advertisement giving details of scheme and procedure for applying for the scheme. It is because government is not interested in people welfare but publicity. I will be surprised if someone say that even a single student got educational loan guarantee from Delhi Government.

It is more than one year of Kejriwal Government in power and not even a single new government school has been opened in Delhi.

Delhi Government has increased the publicity budget from 23.7 crore rupee to 526 crore rupee. It is an increase of 21 times. This much money was not wasted by previous government. It is an unprecedented increase in wastage of public money and it must be stopped.

Ajay Makan of Congress party took a right step by going to court against misuse of public fund by Kejriwal Government.    

"The AAP government had increased their ad budget in a decision taken on June 25. The figure of Rs 526 crore is 21 times more than the previous budgetary allocation of Rs 23.7 crore in the year 2014-15," the plea added.

"This unprecedented expansion of Rs 500 crore in the publicity budget could have been well spent by Respondent No. 2 (Delhi Government) for building -- 100 schools (building cost of one school being Rs 5 crore approx.), purchasing 1,000 DTC buses (cost of one bus being Rs 50 lakh approx), building 10,000 flats for the EWS category (cost of 1 EWS category flat being Rs 5 Lakhs approx.) and other public welfare and development purposes," the plea said.