The panel has not yet cleared the demolition of religious structures for a project since 1976.
Delhi high court told the AAP-led government here that its "one hand ... does not know what the other ... is doing" after the panel on unauthorised religious structures failed to act and this led to delays in the completion of various infrastructural projects.
Justice Manmohan warned the committee, set up to look into unauthorised religious structures built on government lands, that he might order disbanding of the panel as it has not decided even half of the matters pending before it.
"One hand of the government does not know what the other hand is doing. I am surprised what you (committee) people are doing. The feeling is that you make an unauthorised structure and then further make a religious structure so that no one will touch it," the judge remarked.
Observing that there was no coordination among government agencies, the judge said, "I am candidly saying that nothing is happening in the religious committee. Its members are bureaucrats and they do not even bother to meet and when they meet, they defer the matter on one pretext or the other."
The court's observation came in a matter pertaining to infrastructural projects, one of which was pending since 1976, as there were several religious structures which were to be demolished for completion of the work.
"One project is stalled since 1976 because the committee has not done anything. We are sitting here and trying to complete the project through judicial orders. I am saying very politely, please set your house in order. A word should not go around that build a religious structure and nobody will touch you," the judge said.
"Infrastructure project is held up due to this. Government officers do not want to do their work. I will be constrained to say that the religious committee is not doing anything and it should be disbanded," the judge said.
"The religious committee of the government is not doing anything. I might express serious displeasure in my order and I might say this committee should be disbanded. You (members of the committee) are bureaucrats and you are doing nothing," the judge said, adding, "I do not understand what is going on in the committee."