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Since October 2024, the Jal Jeevan Mission’s (JJM) ongoing projects person been moving solely connected State funds owed to pending funds from the Centre, Maharashtra Minister for Water Supply and Sanitation, Gulabrao Patil informed the Legislative Assembly connected Friday during the Winter Session successful Nagpur.
NCP legislator Kashinath Date questioned wherefore 25,000 projects retired of 52,000 commissioned nether the programme are inactive incomplete, leaving galore villages deprived of piped h2o and h2o supply. He cited Jalgaon, Kolhapur, Nashik, Dhule, Pune, and Ahilyanagar districts, wherever bills of contractors are unpaid, enactment is pending owed to deficiency of funds, caller energy connections are due, irregularities are communal successful the tender process, and prime of enactment has been shoddy.
In a written reply to Mr. Date’s query, Mr. Patil confirmed that the gait of enactment has been affected owed to deficiency of funds. “To debar immoderate adverse interaction connected the work, the State authorities has disbursed ₹2483.58 crore during 2024-25 and ₹2103.25 crore during 2025-26,” helium said.
“Of the 51,560 schemes commissioned nether the JMM, 26,131 schemes person been completed, and the remaining 25,429 schemes are successful progress,” helium said.
Mr. Patil noted that successful the lawsuit of Nashik, a caller energy transportation is pending owed to arrears of 11 schemes nether the Zilla Parishad, whereas for Dhule, the 263 schemes are successful advancement retired of the approved 520. Mr. Patil also agreed that the State authorities could cod nationalist contributions of ₹22.09 crore only, whereas the required superior concern for h2o proviso schemes successful the State is ₹2,226 crore.
On the question of taking enactment against the defaulted contractors, Mr. Patil highlighted that 67 contractors were blacklisted and a good of ₹12.801 crore has been recovered for negligence, portion enactment orders of 188 contractors person been cancelled owed to hold successful delivery.
Show-cause notices person been served to 76 task absorption consultants and 17 third-party inspection authorities. Notices person been served to 70 inferior engineers, 149 lawman engineers and 12 enforcement engineers, portion 7 engineers person been suspended, helium said.
“On the irregularities, the 7 officers person been suspended, and the services of 1 serviceman successful the inferior technologist cadre moving from an outer root person been terminated. 233 contractors who committed defaults successful the task implemented by the Maharashtra Life Authority person been fined and recovered ₹55.84 crore,” Mr. Patil said.
