Continuing to act against corruption, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said that cases should be filed against officials involved in fraudulent allocation of performance grant funds in Panchayati Raj department.
Officials under the lens include former director Anil Kumar Damele, additional director Rajendra Singh, chief finance & accounts officer Keshav Singh, additional director (Panchayati Raj) SK Patel, deputy director (Panchayati Raj) Girish Chandra Rajak, along with Panchayati Raj officers of 12 districts, assistant development officers, officers and secretaries of the districts concerned. The CM office gave this information through a tweet. As per information, Anil Kumar Damele (now retired), while being Director of Panchayati Raj, overlooked Central government’s guidelines or mandates and allocated performance grants funds to ineligible gram panchayats. A probe by Vigilance Establishment was also done in this case. As per the report, out of 1,798 gram panchayats in 31 districts, 1,123 were irregularly allocated performance grant funds. A probe was also being conducted against district-level officers and employees in this matter.
Instructions have been issued to register a case under relevant sections and conduct an inquiry against district panchayat raj officers Ramkaval Saroj, Chandrika Prasad (Barabanki), Arvind Kumar Singh (Varanasi), Lalji Dubey (Ghazipur), Amarjeet Singh (Saharanpur), Mihi Lal Yadav (Etawah), Sheetla Prasad Singh (Deoria), Dinendra Prakash Sharma (Maharajganj), Anil Kumar Singh (Azamgarh), Radha Krishna Bharti (Gorakhpur), Rajendra Prasad (Mathura), Dhananjay Jaiswal (Agra), Shahnaz Ansari (Aligarh) and officials and secretaries concerned of gram panchayats.