Issuing instructions to senior officers across the State, Development Commissioner DK Tiwari has said that the delay in honorarium to employees across the State, working on out-sourcing in the Department of Energy, is becoming a major problem. “All the Deputy Commissioners of the State should review such cases in their respective districts with the concerned agency and department to ensure the payments of staffs on time,” said the Development Commissioner.
Tiwari was reviewing the cases during the ‘Seedhi Baat’ programme at Suchna Bhawan on Tuesday. Principal Secretary to CM Sunil Kumar Barnwal was also present during the programme. Under the Department of Energy, 54 outsourced employees in Pakur and 92 outsourced employees in Garhwa have not received their monthly payment since June 2017.
It was stated that due to lack of allocation, the payment is not being made. The concerned department official said that the allocation has been made available and Superintend Engineer has been instructed to release the payment. On this, the Development Commissioner directed the officers to ensure payment within a week in both the cases.
Furthermore, while disposing another case where only a single accused has been arrested so far in the murder case of Sandeep Jaiswal in Hazaribagh, the Development Commissioner instructed the officials to take the case on the speedy trial. Jaiswal had been murdered in 2014.
A case where an ultrasound of only pregnant women is done in Sadar Hospital of Saraikela-Kharsawan while other patients face problems due to lack of sinologists, Tiwari ordered to ensure appointment of sonologists within a week and open ultrasound unit for other patients too to the officials, for which assistance from Jamshedpur DC can be taken.
While reviewing other cases where the land owners are yet to get compensation from the Government, the Development Commissioner instructed the officials to pay compensation to all Raiyats before August 15, 2018. Notably, the lands of villagers were acquired 10 years ago for the North Koyal Project of Water Resources Department in Palamu.
Also, in a similar kind of case where in 2016 in Ramgarh, water supply was provided through tractor by Kamal Kishore Bhagat and others in the Dulmi block, the payment to the concerned persons has been pending since then. Ramgarh DC said that due to lack of verification of papers, the payment has not been made. Tiwari directed the DC to complete paperwork and ensure payment to the persons concerned within 15 days.
Taking up another case where the application for availing the benefit of the Chief Minister Kanyadan Scheme was submitted in 2016 by Radha Kumari of Giridih yet by far the benefits of Kanyadan scheme is yet to be received by her. The Development Commissioner ordered Giridih DC to ensure payment to her within 10 days on priority basis at any cost. As per the Giridih DC, due to lack of allocations, the payment was not being done to the beneficiary.
Meanwhile, the Development Commissioner further added that all the works should be carried out properly under ‘Gram Swaraj’ campaign so that maximum beneficiaries are benefitted out of it. A total of 16 complaints were reviewed and complaints of several districts and departments including lohardaga, latehar, West Singhbhum, Koderma, Ranchi, Bokaro, Dhanbad were taken up during the weekly programme.