'Delhi MCDs failed to utilise Rs 2,000 collected as

All three municipal corporations in Delhi were not able to utilise around Rs 2,000 crore collected as conversion and parking charges from city's markets between 2006 and 2017, a government source said today.
Most of this amount was "diverted" into employees related expenditures, according to the source, who cited details of a report submitted by the MCDs to a Special Committee of Delhi Assembly.
Earlier this month, Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel had referred issues related to the ongoing sealing drive and conversion charges to the Special Committee and asked it to submit its report on the first day of the next session.

The Aam Aadmi Party, which leads the Delhi government, has been opposing the BJP-led civic bodies for the ongoing sealing drive.
It has been learnt that all three municipal commissioners yesterday appeared before the committee and submitted details that the funds -- collected as conversion and parking charges -- were "diverted" for making payments of salaries, arrears, bonuses and other employee related expenditure.
The North MCD submitted that it had collected a total of Rs 1772.13 crore from 2006-17 - of which it spent Rs 1642.55 on "employee-related expenditure", while only Rs 129.58 crore was spent for the markets, the sources said.

Similarly, the East MCD reported that it collected Rs 49.95 crore since 2012-17 of which Rs 8.38 crore were spent for "development of parking sites", Rs 18.16 crore on payment of salaries, they added.