Collector Umesh Agrawal has authorised the Sub Divisional Officer (Revenue) and the Chief Executive Officer to initiate legal action against those who are found involved in propagating Government schemes unauthorisedly and defrauding innocent rural people.According to sources, few people were found swindling money from people in the name of pasting slogans propagating Swatchha Bharat Abhiyaan in their homes, although the work has not yet been approved by the district administration. When the news about this scam reached the collector, he immediately ordered officials to stop such activities.
He said that a letter issued by a Deputy Collector without approval to fix up slogans in the houses of rural areas has already been annulled on April 29, 2015. All the chief executive officers, sarpanchs and secretaries of gram panchayats and In-charges of police stations had been informed about the same. He said that any person trying to fix up these plates by giving reference to the order of the district administration would be working against the rule.A letter issued in this regard by the Chief Executive Officer Bagbahara on June 8, 2015 was also not valid. This letter was declared invalid by the Chief Executive Officer Bagbahara and all sarpanchs, secretaries and in-charges of police stations have been informed accordingly.
However, if any person fixes up any number plate in any house, information should immediately be given to the collectorate, he said. The collector said that in rural areas still some persons are engaged in illegally fixing up plates in houses with the phrase reading as “Chalo Desh Me Beti Badhayen, Bharat ko Nai Rah Dikhayen, Swachchta hai Jindagi Vahan Nirmal Bharat” and recover Rs25 from each villager for this purpose. He urged to report about any such event to the nearest police station, revenue officers, panchayat and toll free number 1800-233-6601 of Hamar Guhar.