Business Standard: Vijayawada: Tuesday, December 09, 2014.
Right to
Information Act Commissioner of Andhra Pradesh P Vijaya Babu imposed penalties
against 17 government officials here today, for their failure to attend a court
of enquiry conducted by him at Vijayawada even after two adjournments.
Vijaya Babu
told reporters here on Monday that though he asked the officials to attend his
court of inquiry on petitions filed by the public, they failed to attend court
though he gave them an opportunity to do so by adjourning the matter twice.
He said that
the total penalty imposed against the officials would be Rs 2.55 lakh.
Among
district level officials who have been penalised are Visakhapatnam District
Additional Joint Collector V Venkata Reddy as well as Prakasam District Water
Management Authority Project Director K Srinivasa Reddy.
The others
are junior officer cadres of various departments of the Andhra Pradesh state
government.
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