Hindustan Times: Chandigarh: Friday, 18 July 2014.
The director
of Government Medical College & Hospital, Sector 32, Dr Atul Sachdev, has
initiated disciplinary proceedings against a hospital official who was under
the scanner in the so-called “ghost employees” scam at the hospital. Sachdev
stated an office superintendent of GMCH’s establishment branch, Harjit Singh,
who he said, was hand in glove with a recruitment agency hired by the hospital,
had been issued a charge sheet.
The GMCH
administration roped in a Faridabad firm, Shree Shyam Enterprises, in May 2010,
to provide general service personnel, including ward attendants, watchmen,
gardeners, cooks and mortuary attendants, for a period of three years. However,
the agency provided only one-half of the staff required by the hospital.
However, the company continued to debiting salaries of the rest of the
employees, who did not exist, from fake bank accounts using forged papers.
HT had
highlighted these financial irregularities in a series of stories published in
February and March. Even after the issue was brought to the notice of GMCH
administration officials, including its director, Harjit took no action against
the recruitment agency and also refused to provide details related to the
hospital’s contractual employees under the Right to Information Act. Other top
hospital officials, who were the appellant authority under the RTI Act, also
ignored the matter.
Earlier, the
regional office of the Employee’s Provident Front had imposed a penalty of ? 20
lakh on the GMCH administration as the recruitment agency hired by the hospital
had failed to deposit the provident funds of the workers it had provided to the
hospital. The GMCH administration has now initiated action against Harjit for
the financial irregularities.
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