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Failure to install AC leaves equipment worth Rs 54.75 lakh defunct for years No accountability in FSL 3/29/2015 11:56:17 PM Arun Singh Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 29 : The lack of foresight and height of carelessness of the officers of the State Forensic Science Laboratories (FSL) Jammu can be gauged from the fact that just for the petty maintenance amount, an equipment of Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) worth Rs 54.75 lakh for conducting various forensic analytical test was rendered dysfunctional. As per The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India (Gol) supplied (February 2006) a Gas Chromatograph with Mass Spectrograph (GCMS), purchased during the year 2004-05 under ''Police Modernization Scheme", to the State Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), Jammu. It further said that the equipment of the value of Rs 54.75 lakh was to be used to study the separation, identification and quantification of forensic samples. Audit scrutiny (March 2013) of the records of Director, FSL J&K showed that the equipment (GCMS) had not been put to use since February 2006 despite its installation and demonstration to the staff of FSL by Service Engineer of the Supplier Firm in June 2009. The equipment had not been made functional due to absence of optimum cooling atmosphere in the room where the equipment was installed. CAG further said that the prolonged non-use had resulted in technical snag to the equipment, which had not been rectified as of July 2013. The matter was referred to the Government/ Department in March 2014. In response the Home Department, Jammu endorsed the reply of Director Forensic Science Laboratory, J&K Jammu, stating therein (March 2014) that concerned Scientific Officer had never made efforts either to install a two ton AC issued for the room in which the equipment was installed or to use the equipment in winter season when temperature remained low and that efforts were on for repairing the equipment at the earliest. Thus non-utilisation of GCMS resulted in idle investment of Rs 54.75 lakh and non-accrual of intended benefits of the scheme for over eight years. Pertinently, the applications of GC-MS include drug detection, fire investigation, environmental analysis, explosives investigation, and identification of unknown samples. GC-MS can also be used in airport security to detect substances in luggage or on human beings. Additionally, it can identify trace elements in materials that were previously thought to have disintegrated beyond identification.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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