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| BDO attached for with holding payments | | Dead, blind hired as casual labourers | |
AB Sharma
Early Times Report
Rajouri, Aug 28: Breaking all previous records of "favouritism" in the state, the ruling coalition has attached a middle-rung official here only because he declined to release payments in favor of a dead man, a blind man and a former bureaucrat, whom some politicians from a ruling party wanted to be treated as "construction workers."
Narrating his woeful tale, Jagan Nath Sharma, the former Block Development Officer, Lamberi area of Nowshera Tehsil said he was working in the area from April 20 to June 17 only to be subsequently attached with the office of the directorate in Jammu.
Showing official documents he said a BJP MLA wielding influence in the area asked him to release payment in favor of Ashok Kumar son of Sita Ram of Bagnoti who had already died and also in the favor of Muhammad Mushtaq, the person holding official certificate of being blind.
"Not only this, I was asked to issue payments in favor of retired agricultural officer Jagdish Raj son of Permanand of Lambedi, who is actually drawing around Rs 30,000 pension. How could I have hired a retired official as laborer?" Sharma asked.
The BDO said the block office had been executing works worth millions under the MNREGA scheme whereby locals had to be hired as laborers for execution of construction works.
The officials said one of the Block Level Workers, Roshan Lal who was working as the henchmen for the BJP MLA asked him to issue the payments in favor of "unnatural cases." "Roshan Lal had created fake attendance records, showing dead man, blind man and the retired officials as laborers, which I refused to accept," Sharma said.
"I simply refused to issue payments for a dead man and the man who is officially declared blind," he added.
The official said he was subsequently "summoned" by the MLA who asked the former to work as per the "dictations of Roshan Lal."
As Sharma refused to release payment illegally, he was transferred.
Sharma said though the government transferred him some three months back, till now no inquiry was initiated as to why he was "attached in the cell". "There is a ruling that government needs to hold a time bound inquiry for attaching an official. Why the government is not holding any inquiry is only because they know I am innocent and honest. But I want a probe by Vigilance be held so that truth gets known to the world that how some politicians have taken official machinery for a ride to meet their political interests," Sharma, the poor official, told Early Times.
"Let me be dismissed from services and be punished publicly if I have done any wrong. But punishing a government employee for honesty is something unheard of," he said.
Meanwhile the government officials of Jammu province have appealed Prime Minster Narendra Modi to hold an inquiry into the matter as to how come BJP leaders in Jammu were so corrupt when Modi himself believes in the Mantra of "Na Kahwaunga Na Khanay Dunga." They also appealed MOS Dr Jitendra Singh and Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh to personally look into the matter.
Despite repeated attempts the accused MLA and his "henchmen" were not available for comments. |
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