Publish Date: | Sat, 26 Feb 2022 08:46 PM (IST)
Chhindwara. A living example of the extent to which corruption has increased in government offices is clear from the action taken by Lokayukta Jabalpur in the last five months. Talking about the last five months, four officers of different departments have been caught red handed by the Lokayukta taking bribe. While talking about the last one year, Lokayukta has registered a case against two rangers of the forest department, which include Pandhurna and Lavaghoghari Ranger. In PWD, Lokayukta caught SDO and sub-engineer red-handed taking bribe. Reader of SDM in Junnardev of Revenue Department was also taking bribe which was caught red handed by Lokayukta. At the same time, recently the accountant of Tribal Welfare Department has been caught red-handed taking a bribe of 25 thousand rupees. The arrested officers and employees were posted at the same place in the departments for a long time and complaints of corruption were coming to the fore.
Became abbot of many departments
There are many such departments in the district where officers have spent two decades and have come back to the district with frequent transfers. Taking advantage of political reach and being local, they get the posting done here. He becomes the abbot of the department by citing the local and accessibility to the key officers of the department, from where the corruption story begins. There are frequent complaints of many such officers and employees which are suppressed.
SDM’s reader had asked for twenty thousand
On 5 October 2021, the team of Lokayukta Jabalpur in Junnardev’s SDM office caught Reader red-handed with a bribe of twenty thousand rupees. Raja father Abharam Gadhewal, resident of village Bijori of Tamia, had demanded twenty thousand rupees in lieu of correcting the wrong name in the SDM Reader Assistant Grade Two Narayan Prasad Markam Amendment Register for 28 years. The team caught the reader red handed after complaining to the Lokayukta.
– SDO and sub engineer had asked for a bribe of 2.5 lakhs
On January 18, 2022, the team of Jabalpur Lokayukta raided two places in the city and caught the PWD’s SDO and sub-engineer red-handed taking a bribe of two and a half lakhs. The demand for bribe was made by SDO Vijay Chauhan and Sub Engineer Hemant Kumar Atmapujya from contractor Srichandra’s father Deepak Lal Chauria 51. This amount was sought by both the officers to clear the bill for the tender for installation of roadside sign boards.
– The accountant was taking 25 thousand bribe
On February 22, in the office of Assistant Commissioner Tribal Welfare Department, Lokayukta’s team raided and caught woman accountant Sangeeta Jhade red-handed with a bribe of 25 thousand. In lieu of change in the date of birth in the service book of the peon Gangaram Suryavanshi posted in the boys’ hostel, Sonpur, a bribe was demanded by the accountant. The peon’s son Nilesh had complained after which this action was taken.
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