Congress complaint stalled new clinics, infuriated AAP

Delhi | Friday | 1st September, 2017

Summary:

Tashi TobgyalThe complaint which triggered the standoff over mohalla clinics between the AAP and the Lieutenant Governor was first made by Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken in September 2016. The complaint, Congress leaders explained, was based on a survey of all clinics in Delhi. Right now, they (AAP) can say the new mohalla clinics will be built by the PWD… so issues of rent don’t come into play. In his complaint to the L-G, Maken maintained that the government had “blatantly violated the CVC guidelines while setting up mohalla clinics at multiple locations owned by members and office-bearers of AAP”. Now, two years later, the only functioning ones are the 110 mohalla clinics set up initially with the approval of former L-G Najeeb Jung..