Rao Inderjit Singh slams Har bureaucracy over creation of GDA

Union minister Rao Inderjit Singh today criticised the bureaucracy in Haryana for "neglecting" the long-standing demand for creation of a Gurgaon Development Authority, saying, babus sitting in Chandigarh often make policies for Gurgaon "without even knowing its ABC".
"Muti-agencies cannot develop Gurgaon as a city. The state government whether of Congress or at present BJP, neglects Gurgaon every time....And previous Hooda government spent al Gurgaon's fund in Rohtak," Singh alleged.
Clamour has been growing for establishing a GDA, for the development of the city, after a demand for it were made several years ago and the BJP minister has been supportive of it.

"The previous (Hooda) government, and in this government too, small politicians and babus sitting in Chandigarh often make policies and take decision for the development of Gurgaon. They even may not know the ABC of Gurgaon and it is a ground reality that they have not touched the boundaries of Gurgaon in their whole life and decide the fortune of Gurgaon," Singh alleged.
Before making policies, they do not take the views of Gurgaon residents and their needs, he claimed.
Singh, a Gurgaon MP, was speaking at a seminar here organised by Haryana Institute of Public Administration.

He left Congress before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections to join BJP and had been vocal about the issue during Bhupinder Singh Hooda's dispensation too.

"I have always been in favor of making a nodal body, GDA, for Gurgaon such as other cities have Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Ghaziabad Development Authority for development of cities. This time also, I demand it for the welfare of Gurgaon and for development and growth of the new and old part of the city," he said.
"Besides, we also demand an individual strong body, NCR Development Authority, for the development of Haryana districts falling under NCR, such as Faridabad, Mewat, Rewari, Mahendragarh, Rohtak, Jhajjar.
Gurgaon MLA Umesh Aggarwal pointed out that "there should a GDA for doing long-term developmental work. From the last two decades, Gurgaon has only one government hospital and a government college.