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| Huge bungling in CAT alleged | | Wild Life officer in LAWDA! | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 14: While several senior officers in Forest department are without any substantial postings a "blue-eyed" official of Wild Life Department has been assigned two plum postings in Forest and Lakes and Water Ways Development Authority (LAWDA).
Wild Life Warden Rashid Yehya Naqash who was posted as DFO Agrastology earlier, this year was later given additional charge of Project Manager Water Shed Management in LAWDA.
"Despite works in Agrastolgy and LAWDA being of different nature, Naqash managed his posting in LAWDA through a senior bureaucrat in the Secretariat," sources said and added immediately after taking over the charge in LAWDA he stopped the funds meant for allied departments of Forest like Wild Life, Social Forestry, Soil Conservation, Sindh Division and Urban Forestry Division.
"On an average the LAWDA spends Rs six crore on Catchment Area Treatment (CAT) every year and the works have to be executed through the Project Manager," they said adding that Naqash released peanuts to allied departments for works this year spending major portion of the money himself.
"Rs 20 lakhs were released in favour of Urban Division, Rs 24 lakhs in favour of Social Forestry and Rs 20 lakhs in favour of Wild Life for plantation purposes. Rest of the money he is spending himself in violation of prescribed norms," a senior official in the Forest told Early Times.
He claimed that there were huge bunglings in the CAT works of the LAWDA. "LAWDA has wasted money on CAT works. The State Vigilance Organization had registered a case against several officers of the LAWDA for alleged misappropriation of Rs 35.04 lakh in the construction of Gabion Check dams in Dal Lake in 2010. This year's spending merits a probe by the Vigilance Organization for various reasons", he said.
Demanding a Vigilance probe into the CAT works executed in the LAWDA, he said, "It is duty of the Forest Minister Mian Altaf Ahmad, to see how Naqash managed his postings in Agrastology and LAWDA and then stopped funds meant for works to be executed by the allied departments of the Forest." |
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