| No tendering, no transfer policy | | RTI exposes PHE skeletons | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Dec 12: Public Health Engineering (PHE), `the unbridled horse' violates all norms set by government of Jammu and Kashmir. In response to an RTI the PHE department is continuously violating norms and goes without tendering, transfer policy and fails to realize revenue of water supply from consumers.
The RTI was filed by a Jammu lawyer and RTI activist Kovid Khosla seeking details of items purchased by officials in PHE division city-1, Jammu, details of tenders for last three years, yearly losses in said division and period of stay of officials in the said division.
In reply of the RTI No PHECD-1/ W-80/5397-99, the office of the Executive Engineer PHE Division No. 1, Jammu said the department was of emergent nature and tendering takes a lot of time, therefore, the material is procured from PHE Mech. Proc. Division Jammu or from market on lowest market rates. In reply to another question PHE official said that, the PHE, division 1, still recovers Rs 415.68 Cr from consumers for consumption of water supplied.
In a shocking reply of the last question, PHE admits violation of norms set by Government. There are 179 officers/officials posted in PHE City Division No. 1 Jammu and most of them have not been transferred for the past 10 years. There are others who have been enjoying lucrative postings since 1979. They include S.M.N Gupta J/E (14.5.08), Anil Kumar Khajuria J/E (15.5.08), Rakesh Kumar Gandotra J/E (14.12.7), RK Khajuria J/E (1.12.09), Anil Nargotra J/E(1.2.08), Sunil Sharma J/E (12.10.09), Karamveer Salathia A.E (04.10.7), Rishi Kumar J.E (5.11.07), Vijay Kumar Suri J.E (2.6.08), Devinder Kumar Sharma W/S (30.11.02), Vijay Singh W/S (1.2.86), Darshan Kumar W/S (21.12.82), Rasal Singh A.I (1.8.79), Surinder Singh A.I (1.8.85), Ashok Kumar A.I (1.8.85), Vinod Kumar motorman (11.8.88), Gharu Lal, pump driver (1.8.85), Mohinder Paul, pump driver (1.1.81), Shivdev Singh, pump driver (1.8.85), Atma Ram,pump driver (1.8.85), Anchal Chand,shift attendant (1.9.85), Subash Singh, shift attendant (1.10.85), Dwarka Nath, Fitter (1.4.81), Bachan Lal, Turn Cock (1.8.85), Kali Dass, Turn Cock (1.9.85) and Rattan Lal, Turn Cock (1.9.85). The name of other officers/officials are shown in scan document. |
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