Fine of Rs 17,000 has been imposed on five officers for not delivering services to people within time-limit under Public Services Delivery Guarantee Act. Similarly, show cause notices have been issued to one dozen officers. The amount of fine will be distributed to the respective applicants. Fine of Rs 4,800 was realised from Dr. Bakoria, BMO of Pandhana in Khandwa district for not delivering benefit of Maternity Assistance Scheme within time-limit. Of this, Rs. 600 each was distributed as compensation to 7 applicants including Haseena Bi of Jirwan, Kanno Bi of Jirwan, Preeti of Pandhana, Santosh Bai of Baroda Aheer, Baskar Bai of Mohanpur, Sadam Parveen of Islampur and Sunita of Islampur. Rs. 600 was also given to Smt. Jyoti of Shahpura.
A cheque of Rs 2,250 was given as compensation to Narayan Yadav, a resident of Raikhutwal after realising the amount as fine from Khandwa Janpad Panchayat CEO lakhan lal Purohit for late delivery of ration card. Rs 2,000 will also be paid to Dinesh of Raikhutwal. Orders were given to impose fine of Rs 1,000 on Chhegaon Makhan block medical officer Dr. Anil Tantwal for not providing amount under Maternity Assistance Scheme within time-limit to Parwati Bai of Awalya Kharwan. Orders have also been given to provide Rs 1,000 each to Rumal Singh Solanki of Pandhana development block, Jagu Solanki and Ramesh of Pipaliya Khurd and Nan Singh Solanki. This amount will be paid from Rs 4,000 fine recovered from CEO of Pandhana Janpad Panchayat for not providing APl ration cards to applicants within time-limit. Similarly, Rs. 3000 fine was also imposed on BMO of Khalwa Community Health Centre Dr. Shailendra Kataria for not delivering Deendayal Upchar Yojana cards within time-limit. From the amount, Rs 1,000 compensation each will be paid to Dinesh of Khalwa, Rang lal of Mirpur and Radheshyam of Jamnia Sarsari.
Show cause notices
Show cause notices have been issued to 12 officers for negligence and indifference in disposal of applications under Public Services Delivery Guarantee Act 2010. Notices have been issued to Tendukhera tahasildar Yashwant Kulhada, luhari naib tahasildars Prabhakar Garg, Tendukhera Chief Municipal Officer Hemchand Koshti, Hindoria Chief Municipal Officer Ajay Raizada, Hata community health centre BMO Vishal Shukla, Ranger of Taradehi DFO office BP Tiwari, assistant engineer of power distribution company DR Deshmukh and junior engineer Durga Jharia.
Collector Damoh has issued show cause notice to Dr.BK Ahirwar, BMO of Pathariya community health centre in the district. The collector has also issued show cause notices to 3 more officers for pendency of applications as per online report. These include sub-engineer of PHE Pathariya, BMO of Hata community health centre for 2 pending applications and Integrated Child Development Scheme Officer for one pending application. It is noteworthy that the state government has notified 135 services of 22 departments under Public Services Delivery Guarantee Act so far. Of these, 68 services are online.