NEW DELHI,March21,2012: Parliamentarians owe the public exchequer over Rs 6 crore in pending electricity and water dues, according to a
RTI reply.The reply from New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) has over 3,335 entries of pending water and electricity dues against
MPs which total to over Rs 6.27 crore.The information was provided to RTI activist Subhash Agrawal by
NDMC. During the hearing of a PIL on the issue, the
Lok Sabha secretariat had informed the Delhi High Court in 2008 that dues from MPs are recovered by deducting amounts from their salary and pension.But it had added that in several cases, the dues were huge and it would take a long time to recover the entire amount.State-run telecom company
MTNL had also said that it was facing difficulty in recovering dues from MPs and former lawmakers as they tended to file petitions in different parts of the country against the recovery process.
