Congress members staged a walk-out in the Chhattisgarh Assembly on Monday while demanding the probe reports on irregularities committed on purchase of Sal seeds be made public in the State.
Raising the issue during the question hour, Congress member Satyanarayan Sharma, in the absence of Congress member Bhupesh Baghel in whose name the question was listed had demanded to know the names of officials found guilty in the probe report submitted by the then Chief Conservator of Forest B K Sinha.
In his reply, Chief Minister Raman Singh said that notices were served to three Divisional Forest Officers (DFOs) besides 10 other officers based on the findings of the report.
He said that a total of 51 ‘Fad Munshis’ were blacklisted after the probe. The Chief Minister stated that the matter was re-investigated by another committee headed by Dinesh Srivastava based on the recommendations made by the B K Sinha Committee and it has not recommended any names in the report.
To this Congress member Satyanarayan Sharma demanded that both the reports be tabled before the House.The Chief Minister stated that in the report submitted by Dinesh Srivastava Committee, it was revealed that irregularities were committed in the purchase of 6,178 quintals of seeds in the various societies.
When the Congress member once again demanded to know what action had been taken against the officials, the Chief Minister replied that based on the report, the then DFOs C l Agrawal, V S Dhruv besides S P Rajak were issued show causes notices.
This apart, the show cause notices were also issued to the then Deputy DFOs lauren Ekka, DP Pandey, RK Malhotra, RK Sisodia besides Range officers Ishwar Kujur, SN Mishra and GS Thakur, he said.