Chief Minster Raghubar Das today ordered to probe properties of all tainted Block Development Officers and Circle Officers while hearing public grievances at Sidhi Baat programme on Wednesday. He said during the programme that if the assets were more than the known sources of income, the Government will use them for opening schools and hospitals.
The CM gave the instruction while listening to a complaint by one Sunita Devi, who had accused Dumri CO Jagdish Kumar Pandey of illegal collection of money. Many such complaints were received earlier against him. Das ordered to investigate the property of the accused CO and suspend him. He instructed all the DCs to conduct sudden inspection in their areas from time to time.
On a complaint of one Ashish Kumar of Sahibganj district that the criteria laid down by the Education Department is not being followed in Shibu Soren Tribal Inter cum Degree College in Boroi block, the CM ordered the Secretary, Higher Education department to check the cases related to such colleges and take immediate action. He said that affiliation of those colleges seeking government grants on the basis of non-compliance of the rule set by the State government will be cancelled.
In another case Abhishek Priyanshu from Bokaro has not been given job on compassionate grounds since February 2011. The department informed that due to no application within the stipulated time, it has been delayed. On this Das directed the systematic action in this matter.
Dular Singh working as a treasurer in minor irrigation division in Gumla died during service. His dependent daughter Anu Kumari had given application for job on compassion grounds after his death on November1, 2002. Since Anu Kumari was not an adult at that time, the Department advised to re-apply after completion of 18 years. The applicant re-applied on July 15, 2012 when she became an adult.
However, the Deputy Commissioner’s (DC) Office rejected the application on October 2016 considering it time bound. On this, the CM instructed the DC, Gumla to appoint the applicant at any department at the district level.
On the issue of toilets in Brambe Housing (Valmiki Bhawan) of 450 rooms built for the economically weaker sections of Ranchi district, Das instructed the Municipal Commissioner to repair all the toilets there.
On the complaint of pending payment of 108 teachers of 25 child labor schools in Garhwa for 23 months, the DC Garhwa said that due to non-funding from the center the payment could not be made. On this, the CM instructed the DC to assess all such schools so that such schools could be merged with the schools being run under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan. He also instructed his Principal Secretary Sunil Kumar Barnwal to consult the Secretary of the Labor Department of the Center in this regard.