MP: Guest house rooms at Rajmata Vijayaraje Agricultural University Gwalior locked for four years

Sources said that the room were allotted to CBI officials who had arrived in Gwalior, but have been lockedd since 2019 after the last CBI team left.

Gwalior: Demonstrating the apathy of authorities which is leading to bleeding of the government exchequer, several rooms of a guest house at the Rajmata Vijayaraje Agricultural University in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior have been locked for the last four years since the CBI booked the rooms during the investigation of the Vyapam scam, officials said.

An exclusive investigation by ETV Bharat has reveled that the rooms of the International Guest House located at the premises of the Rajmata Vijayaraje Agricultural University have been locked since 2019 after the CBI team had booked some rooms to investigate the Vyapam scam. After the investigation was over, the CBI team vacated the rooms.

Since then, the rooms are locked with the rent of the rooms of the guest house exceeding Rs 51 lakh without any actual use, sources said. Sources told ETV Bharat that the university management has written several letters to the SP and the collector in this regard, but to no avail. The police had asked the university administration to arrange the accommodation in the year 2015 after a 20-member CBI team had come to Gwalior to investigate the Vyapam scam.

On the orders of the Collector, 10 rooms of the International Guest House located at Rajmata Vijayaraje Agricultural University were booked for their stay. The CBI team returned on Mar. 31, 2017 after conducting the investigation. However, some CBI officers stayed at four of the rooms for their periodical visits Gwalior.

However, since the last of the CBI officers left on Nov. 4, 2019, the rooms have been locked and not opened ever since, sources said. The university management said that they had taken up the matter with the authorities, but the authorities are not paying any attention to it. At present, the rent of 10 rooms has exceeded Rs 51 lakh.

Anil Saxena, Registrar, Agricultural University said that they have written a letter and requested the administration that the guest house is completely dilapidated and they need immediate attention, but to no avail.