Rising
Kashmir: Srinagar: Thursday, 16 April 2015.
Illegal
appointments and irregularities in GP Fund distribution have come to fore in
municipal committees of Kokernag and Doru Shahabad in an RTI reply.
The officers
of these municipal committees have been paying salary to the illegal appointees
from the GP fund of regular employees.
In a written
reply to few questions by a student under RTI, (copy of which is with Rising
Kashmir) it has come to fore that dozens of class IV employees have been
illegally appointed by the officials despite ban by the Department of Urban
Local Bodies.
The officials
have been paying their salaries from the provident fund of the permanent
employees as the officials have not deposited the GP fund of more than one
million rupees in the treasury.
In one of
such cases, a former executive officer of the committee appointed his son
Andeeb Nabi as Khilafwarzi Assistant in contravention to the Government
circular No. DULB/PS/004-50 Dated 09-04-2012 and corrigendum No. DULB/A/98-142
Dated 6-4-2012 in which appointment made after 18-2-2003 are ultravires made by
the government, thus illegal.
According to
the directions from the authorities all the appointments, engagements, and
regularizations made in ULB of Kashmir division after 20-04-2011 shall be
treated as null and void.
However the
documents received under RTI show that around 60 appointments made since 2003
are in violation to government orders and among them 16 of have been
regularized by the then executive officers illegally.
Sources said
currently the establishment section, accounts section, and section office is run
by the employees who were illegally appointed by the authorities namely Ajaz
Hussain Bhat regularized in 2011 by the executive officer concerned.
As the
department has given clear cut directions to the local bodies that they can’t
disburse salaries to these illegal appointees, the officials are paying the
salaries from the GP fund of regular employees and have not remitted that into
the treasury.
Records show
that an amount of 11, 65,000 rupees were not remitted in past three years due
to which the regular employees are facing tough time. “It is a fraud and crime
but no one is bothered about it as the criminals are paying hefty sums to get
away from facing the law,” says one of the employees.
In 2013,
Director Local Bodies issued a circular in which they acknowledged that GP fund
of employees is being retained by some municipal committees (including MC
Kokernag) instead of remitting it into the treasury for onward credit to their
respective GP fund accounts maintained in District Fund offices.
The non-remittance
of GP funds of genuine employees has resulted in loss of the interest that they
were eligible for.
Despite the
fact that the complaint has been filed by the unemployed youth of Kokernag in
VOK bearing no.SSP/ABP/15-PA-07 DT.6-1-2015, the same is pending before
Director General of Vigilance.
Director
Local bodies said an inquiry was already pending in the matter and he will
still look into the matter.
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