Chandigarh, May 29 -- In a startling revelation, the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) has discovered that Rs.11 crore, earmarked for the development of villages merged with the city five years ago, has remained unutilised in its coffers.

The UT administration had released Rs.102 crore in 2019-20 for developmental projects in 13 villages which had been merged with Chandigarh in 2018, and nine other villages already within the municipal limits. Out of this, Rs.11 crore remained unutilised all these years.

The discovery was made only recently when the UT administration asked the MC to submit the utilisation certificate for the funds allocated five years ago, after city mayor Harpreet Kaur Babla's demanded for more funds for villages....