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Development stuck as 90% of IAS officers don't work, sit on files: Kejriwal

Kejriwal also said that his government was working to implement equal pay for equal work

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Arvind Kejriwal

Press Trust of India
AAP, Arvind, Kejriwal Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday alleged that ninety per cent of the IAS officers "do not work" and said at times he feels development was "stuck up at the Secretariat".

On the bureaucrats' alleged "objection" to the regularisation of contractual workers, Kejriwal said if Delhi had full statehood, his government would regularise all the contractual employees within 24 hours.

Kejriwal, while speaking at a function organised to felicitate pensioners of the Power Department, alleged that the IAS officers "obstructed files" of development works.

"Ninty per cent of them (IAS officers) do not work and hold

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