During his surprise inspection of various offices on Friday, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan directed to penalise officers found guilty of irregularities and issue letters of commendation to the ones whose work was found good.
Accordingly, concerning departments suspended two officers and removed two from their existing charge. Clarification has been sought from one officer. letters of commendation are being issued to two officers.
Chouhan had undertaken surprise inspection of Kolar Municipality. The Chief Minister had carried with him application of one Prem Narayan Singh Ghosi. Ghosi had applied for building permission for construction on more area than shown in map to Kolar Municipality in October. When Ghosi did not receive building permission even after 2 and a half months, he had e-mailed directly to the Chief Minister. This work should have been accomplished within 60 days as per provisions of Public Services Delivery Guarantee Act.
The Municipality had not disposed it within prescribed time-limit. During inspection, the Chief Minister had also called Ghosi to the Municipality. Ghosi informed that he had done several rounds of Municipality for disposal of his application.
For non-disposal of application within prescribed time-limit, Chief Municipal Officer Rajesh Shrivastava has been transferred from Kolar Municipality. Similarly, sub-engineer Pradeep Shukla and Building Permission in-charge Anup Sharma have also been suspended.
At the Town and Country Planning Office, it was found that applicants have to do rounds of the office time and again. Assistant Director Town and Country Planning Indu Tripathi has been transferred due to troubling applicants without any reason and clarification has been sought from Joint Director VP Kulshreshtha. `200 fine was imposed on Kulshreshtha for smoking cigarette in the office.
The Chief Minister also inspected City Planner Office at Shahpura. He talked to some applicants whose mobile phones were inscribed on files there. No one expressed dissatisfaction over functioning of the office. Files were also found in order and updated. At Patrakar Colony, Chouhan got quality of road examined through testing machine and also quantity of asphalt, gravel etc. being used in road construction. The work was found satisfactory. The Chief Minister appreciated Amit Gajbhiye of City Planner Office and road in-charge assistant engineer Rajesh Singh. They will also be given letters of commendation.