Times of India: Guwahati: Thursday, 25 April 2024.
Among 3,365 proxy employees in Mizoram govt, nine are working even after the real govt employees they were impersonating had already died, state department of personnel and administrative reforms (DP and AR) recently said.
In a reply to queries through the Right to Information Act, 2005, state public information officer of DP and AR said it was discovered that nine substitute employees continued to work for the state govt even after the death of the real employees.
The SPIO, however, refused to reveal the names, posts and places of postings on the pretext that the facts are being among those cases being exempted from being publicised by the official notifications, the state govt made from time to time as allowed under section 8 of the RTI Act.
Meanwhile, DP and AR minister K Sapdanga on Tuesday said besides proxy employees, there are a large number of govt servants working in the posts where they have not been posted by the govt or the respective departments.
Sapdanga said the issue of employment of proxies will be taken up immediately after the Election Commission of India lifts the model code of conduct. The process of the ongoing general election to the Parliament for the lone Mizoram Lok Sabha seat is scheduled to be over by June 6.
The danger of employing substitutes/proxies lies in the fact that though not being regular employees they have access to all the government files including confidential communications, he said. "Even if they (the substitute employees) reveal government secrets and confidential matters, the state government is constrained to punish them under conduct rules as they are not government employees," he said.
Among 3,365 proxy employees in Mizoram govt, nine are working even after the real govt employees they were impersonating had already died, state department of personnel and administrative reforms (DP and AR) recently said.
In a reply to queries through the Right to Information Act, 2005, state public information officer of DP and AR said it was discovered that nine substitute employees continued to work for the state govt even after the death of the real employees.
The SPIO, however, refused to reveal the names, posts and places of postings on the pretext that the facts are being among those cases being exempted from being publicised by the official notifications, the state govt made from time to time as allowed under section 8 of the RTI Act.
Meanwhile, DP and AR minister K Sapdanga on Tuesday said besides proxy employees, there are a large number of govt servants working in the posts where they have not been posted by the govt or the respective departments.
Sapdanga said the issue of employment of proxies will be taken up immediately after the Election Commission of India lifts the model code of conduct. The process of the ongoing general election to the Parliament for the lone Mizoram Lok Sabha seat is scheduled to be over by June 6.
The danger of employing substitutes/proxies lies in the fact that though not being regular employees they have access to all the government files including confidential communications, he said. "Even if they (the substitute employees) reveal government secrets and confidential matters, the state government is constrained to punish them under conduct rules as they are not government employees," he said.
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