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| Kishtwar: Babus' luxurious lifestyle dents govt exchequer | | |
Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Mar 8: Some top government officials in Kishtwar are enjoying luxurious lifestyle at the cost of state exchequer. As per the details available with Early Times, several senior district and sectoral officers of Kishtwar district were using personally owned vehicles as contract carriage in official capacity while at the same time the government has also provided them the official vehicles from government garage which according to the sources doesn't fit to the living style of these officials who wants luxurious vehicles at any cost which fits to their style and class as they wants to look unique among the general class.
The sources disclosed to "Early Times" that majority of these vehicles being used officially were either owned by the officers or their kin's, however the charges were being drawn from government treasury illegally and in violation of norms.
The eyewitnesses and the sources informed that the misuse of official position by the officers in terms of use of vehicle doesn't end here as some of the top officers in administration are using luxury SUVs which according to the sources has been provided to them by NHPC, CVPPP or even by the private construction companies and in past beside NHPC, the construction company like Jai Parkash Limited during the execution of 390 MW Dul Hasti project had provided vehicle to the senior officers in civil administration while GVK Powers limited which was allotted the work of Ratle Project too had provided a Scorpio to the District officer.
"Why NHPC or any private company is providing vehicles to these babus is a question which doesn't need any explanation because people are wise enough to understand" asked sources added that so far as hiring of private vehicles by the officers is concerned, it has been made clear by the authorities that only vehicles registered as taxis with route permit are to be hired for official use and for the same; the concerned officer is supposed to invite bids from the owners of the vehicles while norms seem to be of no use in mountainous district Kishtwar where only writs of bureaucrats run. Some bureaucrats were even seen modifying the vehicles according to their comforts; beside use them for transportation of their family members from one place to another place. One wonders as to why the authorities at the helm of affairs turn blind eye towards the mafiaism of bureaucracy.
When contacted Sub Divisional Magistrate Chatroo Masood Ahmed Qazi said that Chatroo is newly created Sub Division and had no vehicle sanctioned by the government for this newly created Sub Division added that the vehicle which he use in official capacity is his personal vehicle and said that he is not or had not withdrawn a single penny either as its rent or its fuel charges. He said that Chatroo is far flung Sub Division which required a vehicle and said that he had also taken up the matter with senior officers with regard to sanctioning of government vehicle for the said Sub Division. He said that till the government provided the official vehicle, he is using his personal vehicle that too without withdrawing a single penny on its account which according to him is burden on his personal saving rather than on state government exchequer. |
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