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| SVC reviews progress of corruption complaints in forest department | | 51 complaints, 16 RDAs disposed off, one official terminated | | Srinagar, May 16: The State Vigilance Commission (SVC) today claimed apart from disposing off 51 complaints and 16 Regular Departmental Actions (RDAs), direction of termination of forest department official, appointed illegally and affected recovery of substantial amount while the action on remaining complaints, enquiries and RDAs would be completed within two months.
This information was given to the State Vigilance Commission (SVC) while reviewing the progress of the corruption related cases pending with forest department at a meeting held under the chair of the Chief Vigilance Commissioner here today. In total there were 329 complaints, 50 RDAs pending with the department for action. Vigilance Commissioner, Gous-Ul-Nisa, Principal Secretary Forest, R K Gupta, Special Secretary Forest, Riyaz Ahmad, Chief Vigilance Officer, Forest Department, Secretary SVC, Jitander Singh besides other senior officers from Forest and SVC were present in the meeting.
The Commission was informed that one senior IFS officer has been exclusively nominated and authorized to conduct departmental and other enquiries in to the complaints pending with the department to ensure early clearance of the backlog.
It was also given out that an FIR has been registered against the then Managing Director, State Forest Corporation in Police Station VOK, Srinagar while outstanding amount was recovered from Range Mangers of State Forest Corporation (SFC).
Meanwhile a new Committee has been constituted to conduct inquiry in to the allegations against the officials of SFC, Doda and the Committee has been asked to submit a report early, SVC spokesperson added.
He stated that department has framed a new Departmental Enquiry Committee for conducting fresh inquiries where department was not satisfied with the reports submitted by the previous Committees.
It was brought out that seized timber remains lying in police stations for years together without being handing over to forest department and members were apprised that Principal Secretary Forest will issue a circular order to ensure that timber seized by the police and any other agency is handover to jurisdictional divisional forest officer on "Superdnama" for ensuring safe custody of the Government property.
Emphasizing on strict adherence of E-tendering, the Commission asked the officers to its strict compliance as per Government orders. "The process of issuing NOCs on line to the industrialists by the Pollution Control Board will also be put in place shortly", the Principal Secretary informed. |
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