AGARTALA, Dec 6 (TIWN): Tripura Govt like every year observed Dr B R Ambedkar's death anniversary on Tuesday. In this regard, SC Welfare Minister Ratan Bhowmik paid floral tributes on Ambedkar’s statue at Ujjayanta Palace and preached honey quoted words for the great soul. But this is the same Minister under whose observation, the Central funds have been massively looted since his Ministry began. Nobody was spared from the corruption including the students. The SC / ST / OBC / Minority students who are residing at Bhagini Nivedita Hostel, at Krishnanagar are left in miserable condition under the supervision of Ratan Bhowmik’s sister Bijali Bhowmik. The catering system there since the beginning are miserable and reportedly due to Bijali Bhowmik’s rude behavior and CPI-M boot licking attitude the students never complaint anything. Whereas such is the condition of SC / ST and minority students, a BJP SC National leader Shruti Bangaru Laxmi disclosed that around 14.2 % unspent fund is there under Tripura Govt in the FY 2015-16.

In a press meet held on Dec 3rd,  Agartala BJP Office, Laxmi claimed that all the data revealed by Tripura Govt in Assembly were wrong. “Whereas the CPI-M Govt cries a lot for slashing of funds under SC  Welfare, in actual in last year 14.2 % non-utilized fund was unearthed.

The central Govt asked the state govt for sending the detail reports of the expenditure but the state govt failed to do so, saying the govt here has utilize the fund in other social welfares”, said Laxmi. She further said, “For what purpose the fund was used it’s also not clear, whether it’s party fund or something else, the state govt didn’t tell anything to the Centre. But without explanation the Central govt will not allocate the fund”, added Laxmi.

The BJP leader further claimed, “The Govt of Tripura in Assembly 2016 said that there are 6 lakhs 54 thousand SC in Tripura which stands around 17. 8 lakhs, whereas the actual status is around 20 %”.  

“The Communist Govt here is using all the SC / ST/ Backward community as their vote banks but the govt left them without any benefit and this is the chief reason behind the undeveloped condition of Tripura”, she added.

“Non-utilized fund is in every dept. which has led the Central govt to slash the fund of state Tripura”, she added.

She also discussed about poor GDP rate, black money under various other party leaders, Demonetization issue etc.