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'Suspend central vista, bullet train projects; restore DA'- Congress

  •   Fri, Apr 24 2020 04:58:38 PM

New Delhi, Apr 24 (IANS): The Congress has slammed the government for freezing the Dearness Allowance (DA) of central government employees and pensioners and demanded scrapping of the bullet train and central vista projects to save 30 per cent from the government expenditure.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted: "Cutting the expenditure on dearness allowance is inhuman."

Instead of cutting expenditure and wasteful expenses, government is hurting middle class employees and pensioners, said Randeep Surjewala, Chief spokesperson of the party.

The government should scrap bullet train and central vista projects and save Rs 1,30,000 crore and divert the money to fight COVID-19, added Surjewala.

The Congress said that the decision of the government will adversely impact the morale of the armed forces.

As part of the austerity drive, the Centre on Thursday announced suspension of DA hike for the central employees till July 2021. Moreover, ministries and departments have also been categorised for fixing a cap on their quarterly expenditure, limiting it to 15-20 per cent of the annual budget expenditure for FY21 in the first quarter.

 
  

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  • Pbhat, Puttur

    Fri, Apr 24 2020

    Govt is just freezing the DA. ..from Jan 2020 That means their pension or salary is not disturbed.. As the expenditure will be less during this season ..no tour,no hotel no luxurious functions etc...money is saved. Any ways like Kerala central govt is not asking one month salary..o

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  • Satish Kunder, Mangalore/Mumbai

    Fri, Apr 24 2020

    This is deaf government and has no detailed plans to restructure the economy after lockdown. Lockdown also can not go indefinitely as there will be surge in Corona Virus in the days to come. There is a need to balance between lockdown and economy. Otherwise it will like double edged sword and destroy the life of the people specially the daily wagers and migrant labourers.

    It is a national crisis and the government needs to take everybody along, listen to them and take action which is good to the country. It is also not the time to do politics as 1.3 billion people's life is at stake.

    As suggested by the principal opposition party earlier, more testing needs to be done and normal life to be brought back by lifting lockdown in green and yellow zones and increased tests at all zones.

    People are becoming restless and government should come out with the plans and inform the public.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Fri, Apr 24 2020

    Bullet Train, Rafael & Statues are Useless in front of Corona ...

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  • R.Bhandarkar, l

    Fri, Apr 24 2020

    Something is seriously wrong ...

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  • Sangram sangam, Kundapur

    Fri, Apr 24 2020

    But commonwealth game. 3G.4G and coal mines useful to Congress once

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