- Thackeray committee recommends deducting one day’s salary
- Action proposed on 19 officers-employees
- 3.82 crore loss to the Municipality
Nagpur. As soon as the matter regarding stationery scam came to light, Municipal Commissioner Radhakrishnan B. The extreme A 7-member committee was constituted under the chairmanship of Commissioner Deepkumar Meena. Despite the scam in the administration itself, the ruling party objected to the investigation being conducted by the administration itself, bypassing this committee and constituted an inquiry committee under the chairmanship of ruling party leader Avinash Thackeray. On the one hand, the Meena Committee investigated and submitted the report to the commissioner, while on the other hand, the Thackeray Committee investigated and presented the report in the House.
In the investigation conducted by both the committees, where the Meena committee’s investigation proved to be effective, the interim report showed only frivolity due to less time with the Thackeray committee. Whereas the Meena Committee in its report, terming the mistakes of 19 officers and employees as serious, recommended action against the concerned as per the Maharashtra Civil Service Rules and further action if found guilty.
payment of bill without provision
– With the report presented in the meeting of the Municipality on Wednesday. The report given by Commissioner Meena was also disclosed. Extreme. The commissioner told in the report that the financial transactions of health department, waste management department, birth-death department and library department were scrutinized.
Despite the lack of provision in it, many bills were disclosed to be paid. In the health department, 131 bills were paid without provision in which 2.14 crore was paid to the company.
Similarly, 1.22 crores for 33 bills in the garbage management, 60.76 lakhs for 40 bills in the birth-death department and 74.29 lakhs for 47 bills without provision in the library department. Paid. In this way 4.69 crores have been paid to the companies for a total of 251 bills.
Apart from this, for the stationery of the birth and death department, payment was made from the account of the General Administration Department, in which 68.40 lakh was paid for 8 bills without provision.
5.41 crore was paid for a total of 259 bills, but funds of 1.17 crore were also recovered from the companies. Also Rs 41.51 lakh. The bills for the supply of electricity were not given, due to which the Municipal Corporation has to bear the loss of 3.82 crores.
Action proposed against these employees
It is noteworthy that the ruling party may have expressed doubts on the investigation of the Meena Committee, but in a few days, after examining many departments and accounts, negligence in the functioning of the officials concerned was exposed. According to this, Chief Accounts and Finance Officers were Vijay Kolhe, Hemant Thackeray, Dr. Sanjay Chilkar, Prashant Bhatkulkar, Mohan Padvanshi, Sanis Gokhe, Sanjay Ingle, Assistant Commissioner Mahesh Dhamecha, Executive Engineer Naresh Borkar, Medical Officer Dr. Bahirwar, Dr. Pradeep Action was recommended against Dasarwar, Sunita Shahu, Sunita Patil, Suresh Shivankar, Rajesh Meshram, Afaq Ahmed, Karade, Nagdive, Shobha Gadre.
The investigation will be headed by a retired judge.
On Wednesday, the members were given an opportunity to express their opinion on the report of the Thackeray committee presented in the Municipal Corporation, but no member gave his side on the stationery scam or the scam report. However, most of the councilors of the ruling party demanded to accept the report as it is. After this, Mayor Dayashankar Tiwari, as per the recommendations, since the term of the councilors is coming to an end, therefore, through the retired judge included in the committee, instructed to continue the investigation. Along with this, instructions were given to the commissioner to appoint officers to help them.