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| DC awaits preliminary probe report, accused officials unmoved | | Multi crore carriage scandal | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Mar 6: Despite Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar taking cognizance of the multi crore carriage scandal in Kishtwar hydraulic division which was exposed by the Early Times three weeks ago the officials involved in the scam are taking the administration scrutiny for a ride and are trying to mislead the authorities.
The whistleblower who brought the scam to fore has demanded a judicial probe into the scandal so the top officials of the department including the then Executive Engineer, now Superintending Engineer, another Executive Engineer, AEEs JEs, draftsmen, who are roaming scot free after embezzling crores of rupees are brought to the book.
As per the details available with "Early Times", the sample estimates duly sanctioned by the Drawing and Disbursing Officer of Hydraulic Division Kishtwar bearing Ts. No. 9BRGF for the month of 12/2012 amounting to Rs. 263450, the carriage charges of material utilized were paid in between 400% to 450% above the schedule rate fixed by the department of Design Inspections & Quality Control Department (PWD) J&K Jammu vide Govt. order No. 156-PW(R&B) of 2010 operative from 1-04-2010. The said department is the nodal agency for fixing of rates for all the government departments of the state.
Similarly in Ts No. 11/NABARD of 1/2013 amount to Rs. 54800 wherein similar practice was also adopted by the officials where carriage charges were also paid on exorbitant rates by the department.
The documents revealed that during these years, the DDO's with active help and assisted by his technical staff manage to siphoned off crore of rupees on various estimates passed by these officials by way of withdrawing the carriages of material by head load/ Mechanical
transport drawn during the period from 1-4-2010 to ending 12/2013 is in utter violation of schedule of rates which amounts to exaggeration to the tune of approximately Rs. 3 to 4 corers, thus inflecting huge losses to the state exchequers by the hands of DDO's posted during all these years.
The documents also reveals that for purchasing the material from Government Registered Suppliers for purchase of stone, Bajraee, Sand and other allied material items, no quotations has been invited by the officials at the helm of the affairs and it was believed that the
material thus used in sanctioned works might also have been purchased on higher rates that too might have cause huge losses to the state exchequers which also needs to be probed through high level committee to be comprised of technically sound officials.
"Anti graft agencies like Vigilance organization record proves that they have failed to act against the erring officials," said the whistle blower.
"You can imagine how powerful they area that they are not even ready to cooperate with Deputy Commissioner level officers," he rued.
Pertinently, after going through the news report carried by this newspaper regarding withdrawal of charges on account of Head load carriage at exorbitant rates mentioned in the government schedule during 2010 to 2013 which runs into several crore rupees, DC Kishtwar Ghulam Nabi Balwan had sought preliminary report from Executive Engineer Hydraulic Division Kishtwar and had directed him to submit the same in his office in next few days, but till date nothing has been done by the concerned division. |
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