New Delhi, Aug 20 - The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Thursday cited a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report that says that although 88 percent of the capital's roads are under the civic agency's purview, allocations are 'meagre' and unjust.

According to the CAG report for the year till March 2008: 'The MCD, which maintained 88 percent of Delhi's road network, received very meagre allocations from the government compared to the PWD (Public Works Department) which maintained only 7.6 percent of the roads.'

'In the absence of relevant database on its road network, the MCD could not have even put up a considered case for increased allocations to the government of Delhi. The MCD accepted the facts (January 2009),' it added.

Citing this CAG document, MCD leader of the house Subhash Arya told reporters that the report reflected the real ground situation without 'political bias'.

'The PWD in the past decade has been given 15 to 53 times higher amount than the MCD for maintaining roads. This is a step-motherly and differential treatment! It is not the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which heads the MCD, or the MCD that pointed this out. This is the audit report's observation,' Arya told reporters.

The PWD comes under the Congress-ruled Delhi government.

According to the audit report, of Delhi's 30,923-km long road network, the MCD is responsible for the upkeep of 27,139 km of roads.