New Delhi:
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, who has been handed a Rs 1.98 crore bill as pending rent, said that there is "some error by Directorate of Estates". The estates department of the Urban Development Ministry sent Ms Kumar the bill for occupying a government residence despite losing entitlement.
"Hope Estates Department rectifies the error," said Ms Kumar.
According to documents accessed through RTI, the house was re-allotted to Ms Kumar in 1986 after the death of her father former Deputy Prime minister Jagjivan Ram.
Technically, Kumar lost entitlement to the bungalow once she took up the post of the Speaker and was allotted another house. But the land owning agency, Central Public Works Department (CPWD), says that the bungalow is still in her possession.
However, a statement, issued on the behalf of the Lok Sabha Speaker, on Monday evening said that Ms Kumar and her family had vacated the house in question, 6, Krishna Menon Marg, back in 2002 and the Municipal Corporation had disconnected the water and electricity supplies.