The Akhilesh Yadav Government on Monday admitted in the UP Council that there were irregularities in recruitment processof lower division clerk-cum-typist during Mayawati regime and was prepared to set up an inquiry in the matter.
On another issue, the chairman of the Council, Ganesh Shanker Pandey directed the state Government to probe the complaints regarding 108 ambulance service and its poor response to the call by patients in need. Regarding the irregularities in recruitments, the leader of the House and Health Minister Ahmad Hasan told the House that "there were irregularities in interviews on applications for the post of lDC-typist for the office of excise commissioner of Allahabad invited on June 26, 2011." The
Minister was replying to a supplementary question raised by BJP member Yagya Dutt. The Minister explained that"The interviews were held in the year 2011 and the matteris also pending in the court. At that time BSP government ledby Mayawati was in the power. We are ready for whateverinquiry you ask for," he said. The final result of the examination was declared onSeptemer 11, 2011, Hasan said.
108 AMBUlANCERegarding laxity in the 108 ambulance service,BSP member lokesh Prajapati complained that the servicereached four hours late at a Daulrala health center in Meerut. Dismissing the claim, leader of the house and healthminister Ahmad Hasan said if an ambulance of the 108 serviceis delayed by more than 20 minutes a complaint is to befiled. But in the case of the said four-hour delay, he had notreceived any complaint.
Another BSP member Prashant Chaudhary said the vehiclesof the ambulance service were being run like taxi and demandedan inquiry into the matter.Subsequently, the Chairman of the Houe Ganesh Shanker Pandey, asked the government to lookinto the complaints. The matter came up for discussion during the questionhour when Hasan mentioned the 108 service while replying to aquestion by Suresh Kumar Tripathi about the number of dengue deaths between July to October 30. Hasan in response said only three people have died of dengue during the period.