NEW DELHI: Lokpal , which became functional after the appointment of its chairperson and members in March 2019, spent over Rs 11.6 crore — mostly in salaries, office expenses and rent — until January 15, 2020, though there is no word yet on action taken by it on the 1,255 complaints it had received till December 20 last year.According to the Lokpal secretariat’s reply dated January 29 to a query filed by RTI campaigner K Govindan Nampoothiry , Lokpal received a budget of over Rs 101 crore last year. Of the revised estimate of Rs 18.58 crore for 2019-20, it had already spent Rs 11.61 crore by January 15, 2020. The anti-corruption ombudsman’s committed liabilities totalled Rs 6.09 crore, taking its total requirement to Rs 17.70 crore.This, even as Lokpal said in the RTI reply that it had received 1,255 complaints till December 20. Nampoothiry told TOI that there was no word on proceedings undertaken or action initiated on these complaints and that barely seven sittings of Lokpal were held since it became functional.The allocation for Lokpal for 2020-21 is Rs 74.70 crore. The budget estimate for expenditure on domestic travel expenses of Lokpal was pegged at Rs 2.5 crore and for foreign travel at Rs 1.5 crore, though the expenditure until January 15 on domestic travel was Rs 8.53 lakh and on foreign travel nil. “Lokpal has utilised major portion of the funds allotted for 2019-20 but has been unable to yield any output,” Nampoothiry said.