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| Why spare tainted ministers of past? | | Punishing corrupt officials | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 8: As the state dispensation has asked for the list of the tainted officials in the state to make the system 'corruption free', people here are pitching for the punishment of tainted ministers of the past against whom severe charges were registered by the graft bodies.
The Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on March 5 asked all the heads of departments to prepare a comprehensive list of officers who were involved in 'corrupt practices' or had been rendered as 'dead wood' to summarily dismiss them from services or suggest other kind of action, whose offence in corruption was minor.
People here besides yearning that the new government must punish the corrupt officials also want the government to take measures so that the former ministers who have misused their official position be unmasked.
The former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and the senior leader of congress Tara Chand was accused of swindling money in the Urban and local bodies Department. A massive recruitment racket was reported in Urban Local Bodies department in 2011, the flagship department that oversees local governance through municipal bodies across Kashmir.
The department had allegedly made over 1,500 illegal appointments, almost doubling the number of employees, with devastating consequences: funds from local tax collection, devolution funds from the state's revenue and the Centre's developmental grants are now exclusively used to pay salaries.
Taj Mohi-ud-Din was accused of turning "blind eye to a multi-crore scam" in PHE Division Rajouri according to complaint. The PHE department under Taj was accused of purchasing substandard pipes above the market price and issuing contracts without proper tendering causing loss to the exchequer to the tune of crores of rupees.
In the Month of December 2012, Congress minister of PDP- Congress coalition, Suman Lata Bhagat, State Accountability Commission (SAC) issued notice to here for creating immovable property through a trust which was meant to serve the weaker sections of society. Omar Abdullah on the floor of house in 2014 said the government is investigating the matter but the reality seems the contrary. No action as usual taken so far.
The case of misappropriation of money and misuse of official position against Gulchain Singh, former Minister in Ghulam Nabi Azad government, is pending for regular inquiry in the State Accountability Commission since 2012.On March 27, 2012, SAC issued notices to Gulchain Singh Charak former Minister for works, several officers of the Jammu and Kashmir Project Construction Corporation (JKPCC) and a high profile private contractor taking cognizance of a complaint with regards to Rs. 30 cr Ganpat Bridge project and also sought comments from Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who was the Chairman of the Corporation, Reports at that time used to galore that several other projects worth crores were allotted to the same contractor allegedly at the behest of politicians and bureaucrats flouting codal formalities were incomplete even as payments against them stand released.
Another senior Congress Minister Sham Lal Sharma was accused of being involved in fake drugs scandal that rocked Kashmir in 2013. The Doctors hold Sharma, Director Health and the head of CPC responsible for all the fake drug menace.
One of the senior most leaders of the Congress party and Jammu & Kashmir Hajj and Auqaf minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed, was too involved in the 'infamous' copying scam, and helped his foster son to qualify matriculation examination by using unfair-means.
In another case, in the infamous Panchayat Ghar scam, Sayeed was accused that during his tenure as Rural Development minister, he had purchased computers, cement, steel trunks, furniture and various other items of daily use worth Crores of rupees on exorbitant rates.
Another infamous scam worth over Rs 1000 crore involving Dr Manohar Lal Sharma a senior congress minister was reported some years ago. Sharma was found involved in a housing cooperative society scam.
Now, when the new state government has shown that it will make the system clean and workable, what remains to be seen by the people is the action that it will take against the former ministers who instead of mitigating peoples' woes emptied state coffers to fill their own. |
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