Cracking his disciplinary whip while starting review meetings at Maharajganj, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath suspended 11 officers and transferred seven others for failing to implement development schemes from Friday. Yogi even asked officers to perform or should get ready to face penalty. “The Government will not tolerate any nuisance now. I had given adequate warning to officers. Time has come to take action. A beginning has been made from here,” CM said during a review meeting at the local Collectorate on Thursday.
The officers who faced the axe include police officers, doctors, engineers and district level officers responsible for implementation of Government schemes.
Principal Secretary (Information) Avinash Awasthi said that seven officials including two SDMs, two police station in-charges and three doctors were suspended. The suspended officials are SDM Nautanwa Girish Chandra Srivastava, Casualty Medical Officer Dr. Thakur Shailesh Kumar Singh, BDO Sanjay Srivastava, AAO, Basic Education, Ravi Singh, District Agriculture Officer Md. Muzzimil, Ex En PWD BN Ojha, Medical Officers Dr. Arshad Kamal and Dr. Vajpayee, Station Officer, Purandarpur, Vinod Kumar Rao, SO Farenda Chandresh Yadav.
The officials transferred are District Co-ordinator National Rural livelihood Mission Ashok Kumar Maurya, In- charge District Programme Implementation Officer Gayatri Devi, Station Officer, Ama, Gyanendra Kumar Singh, DSO Atimat Tiwari, Station Officer, Paniyara, Sudhir Kumar Singh, Station Officer Shyamderwa Srikant Rai and Station Officer, Kothimar, Ramakar Yadav. The CM said that action was taken against them because they did not mend their ways in the last four months. “I am repeatedly telling officers to implement Government schemes. But I am shocked to see the lackadaisical attitude of officers. I believe this action will shake them up a bit,” Yogi said. Yogi, who has been camping in Gorakhpur, visited Maharajganj on Thursday morning. The officers said that the CM came well prepared and asked pointed questions about development schemes and improvement in law and order. Officers, who were found gasping for answers, were given a tongue lashing. The CM later asked District Magistrate to take action against them.
In the review meeting, when CMO informed the CM about four doctors missing for the last several months, Yogi asked the DM to recover money from their salary if they were found guilty.
“No government doctor should indulge in private practice. If they want to make money, they should first resign from the government job,” he said. The meeting with officials was held at Maharajganj district headquarters. Earlier, Yogi had a meeting with senior BJP leaders and BJP legislators at ITM College campus where he asked them to strengthen the party at village level. later the CM had lunch with around 90 Dalits.
later speeaking to reporters, Yogi said that Akhilesh Yadav has no right to comment on the BJP as he himself is losing grip over his party. “Akhilesh should first set his house in ordr and then comment on others,” the CM said. Slated to inspect Ballia district on Friday, the CM could change his itinerary as he flew to Delhi to attend the oath ceremony of Vice -president Venkaiah Naidu.