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ERA wakes up after 2 yrs; SE posted as Director Safeguards 1/28/2016 11:52:30 PM ET Impact Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 28: The Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) has finally posted a Superintending Engineer (SE) as Director Safeguards. Early Times had filed a detailed report on this issue on December 24, 2015. Details available with Early Times reveal that ERA vide its order No: 13 JK ERA of 2016 dated 27.1.2016 has posted P N Bali (SE) as Director Safeguards. Bali was transferred to ERA some two years back but due to official apathy he was not holding any post in the organization which raised sever question mark on the Government functioning . There are several other officers who too have been posted in ERA few years back but they too do not hold any post. Pertinently the Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) has been executing works mega developmental projects in state from the last several years. The organization was caught on a wrong foot by Early Times as six senior engineers posted in this agency including P N Bali almost two years back had been assigned no work and an amount of Rs 85 lakhs had been paid to them as salary for doing no work. The senior officials three of whom are Superintending Engineers (SE's) and two Executive Engineers (Xen's) according to reliable reports are seen sitting idle all the day at ERA's Jammu office. Details available with Early Times reveal that three Superintending Engineers (SE's) namely R C Bhasin , P N Bali and B L Dhar were posted in Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) in March 2014. After posting these senior engineers in ERA the then Government lead by Omar Abdullah failed to allocate them the respective jobs / assignment . During the same time (May 2014) two more Executive Engineers (Xen's) namely D B Gupta and P N Gupta were also posted in ERA along with a Junior Engineer but these officials also have been assigned no job by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ERA. An estimated Rs 5 lakhs plus get wasted every month due to Government's inefficiency as average salary paid to these engineers is Rs 85,000 per month . From March 2014 till date an amount of Rs 80 lakhs which is the taxpayers money has been wasted in the shape of monthly salaries given to these officers for doing no work. Sources reveal that in-spite of having three SE's posted in ERA who have no work to do , a junior officer in the grade of Executive Engineer (Xen) is holding charge of Superintending Engineer (SE) of ERA. Recently the State Vigilance Commission (SVC) also intervened into this matter after some public spirited citizens had filed a complaint in January 2015 against the former Chief Secretary , the then CEOERA and other officers. The SVC in this connection said that matter being purely an administrative issue should be dealt by the CEO of ERA. The case was forwarded to CEO ERA by the SVC for immediate action.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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