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| Low rung officials blame their bosses for discrepancies | | Multicrore carriage scandal | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Mar 8:Reacting to the series of news report published in "Early Times" a few officials of the Hydraulic Division Kishtwar have accepted that discrepancies have taken place but they have alleged that senior officials are responsible for the misappropriation of the funds. The whistleblower (who has brought the scam to fore) has demanded setting up of a Judicial Commission to be headed by the sitting Judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to probe the Kishtwar Hydraulic Division carriage charges so that erring officials could be brought to book.
The whistleblower had revealed that top officials of the department including the then Executive Engineer, now Chief Engineer, another Executive Engineer, AEEs JE, draftsmen and others are involved in the scam.
"We time and again warned our seniors about this practice which was stopped soon after 2013--- but the seniors didn't listen to our repeated pleas" said an official.
As already reported by "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 DDOs with active help and assisted by his technical staff manage to siphoned off crores 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 crores, thus inflecting huge losses to the state exchequers by the hands of DDO's posted during all these years. The documents also revealed that for purchasing the material from Government registered suppliers for purchase of stone, bajraee, sand and other allied material items, no quotations were 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 exchequer which also needs to be probed through high level committee to be comprised of technically sound officials.
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