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Estates Department pays lakhs as rent for unused flats at Bari Brahmana Faulty selection of hiring accommodation squanders public exchequer 8/27/2016 11:51:59 PM Arun Singh Early Times Report jammu, Aug 27: With its faulty selection to hire accommodation for the Government employees, the Estates Department has been paying lakhs of rupees annually as rent to Custodian Department for unused flats hired at Bari Brahmana. Sources told Early Times that Estates Department had hired 30 flats on Evacuee Property land at Meen Sarkar at Bari Brahmana from the Custodian Department in 2010 for proposed allotment of 29 flats in favour of seven gazetted and 43 non-gazetted/ class-IV employees of Civil Secretariat and one flat was reserved for staff of Estates Department. They informed that the possession of eight flats was taken by 13 employees in four years against the proposal of accommodating 50 officers/ employees. As a result of non-utilisation of these flats, the Government had to suffer a loss of Rs 1.65 crore including Rs 97.42 lakh on account of hiring of rooms in private hotels, Rs 65.37 lakh on account of payment of rent charges payable to Custodian Department and Rs 1.85 lakh on account of non-realization of license fee and rent of furniture in respect of these 30 flats. Sources revealed that employees did not opt for these quarters on the plea that these were far away from Civil Secretariat. The reasons cited by the employees were later realized by the Department and decided to de-hire them but Estate Department has to yet implement the decision which shows its deliberate negligence which is causing huge loss to the public money. Besides, the allotment of residential quarters in violation of norms has resulted in avoidable expenditure of Rs 11.75 crore incurred on hiring of private hotels and houses for accommodation of the employees and other entitled government functionaries, they informed.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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