Over Rs 18.43 lakh crore were recovered by construction departments so far since April 2016 on the action of Chief Technical Examiner (Vigilance) Organisation. This information was given in review meeting of Chief Technical Examiner (Vigilance) Organisation to Minister of State for General Administration Department lal Singh Arya.
In the meeting, suggestions were made to make the organisation more empowered so that punitive action can be taken against the officers and contractors on the recommendation of the organisation. The amount of damage to the Government should be recovered from the concerned within fixed time frame.
Disciplinary action should be taken against on the recommendation of the organisation in case of not receiving the first reply in more than three months. Disciplinary action should be taken against concerned government servant for not receiving information sought by the organisation in pending inspection report. To ensure filling of vacancies on deputation basis in the organisation, recruitment rules should be amended by issuing sanction by all construction department on cadre posts.
It was informed on the occasion that website of the organisation has also been launched. Through this, all the construction departments of the state will know the updated status of cases related with them immediately. Total 40 cases of inspection reports were issued by the department in the year 2017-18 and 18 of them were redressed. One of four serious cases was redressed at the organisation level. Report was sent to the State Government in one case among the 13 complaints received at the government level.
Twelve complaints are pending for examination due to non availability of records from departments. At present, 1748 cases are pending.
Discussion was held on suggestions for strengthening the organisation. Consensus was made on filling up vacancies through out-sourcing, permission for examining material from NABl laboratory for quality control and empowering the organisation.
Minister of State lal Singh Arya released the 45th Annual Report of Year 2016-17 of the organisation. On this occasion, Chief Technical examiner RK Mehra and officers and employees were present.