lokayukta Justice (Retired) Sanjay Mishra dispatched a letter to Chief Secretary, Alok Ranjan, recommending a three tier probe into the ‘Salary Sharing Scam’ in Colvin Talqudars College which came up during an enquiry.
Earlier the former State Ombudsman, NK Mehrorta sent a letter to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, alerting him that how the bureaucracy and senior educational officer were illegally distributing salaries to staff of said College.
Sources confirmed that present State Ombudsman sent a letter to Alok Ranjan in which he recommended to set-up three tier probe into the Colvin College Salary Sharing Scam. The probe is to be conducted by the Finance Department, Education Department as well as the law Department of the Government.
Sources said that Ombudsman asked Ranjan to submit the findings of the said departments back to him so that necessary legal proceedings could be made against the accused, who were hand-in-gloves to distribute salaries illegally.
It may be mentioned that earlier then lokayukta in his report termed the above irregularities as ‘Salary Sharing Scam’ in the State Government. Mehrotra in his letter reportedly requested Akhilesh Yadav to immediately take
cognisance before the education department officials would misuse their power to distribute salaries in the name of directions from the Court.
“In none of the orders of the Apex or the High Court, directions have been given to State Government to release salaries to teachers of Colvin but still the principal secretary (secondary
education) and district inspector of school in lucknow misguided the Government and illegally sanctioned salaries, thus resulting into huge loss to State ex-chequer”, Mehrotra reportedly appraised to the Chief Minister while requesting him to intervene before Salary Sharing Scam would incur further loss to the Government.