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| After transfer, IAS officer Bhagat issues transfer orders in Transport Department | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, July 19: In a brazen demonstration of corruption in the office of Transport Commissioner, an Indian Administrative Service officer has issued transfer orders of atleast two Motor Vehicle Inspectors a day after Omar Abdullah’s Cabinet ordered his own transfer.
On Wednesday last, Cabinet shifted the IAS officer of 2002 batch Saurabh Bhagat from the posting of Transport Commissioner to the insignificant position of Secretary 'in' Industries and Commerce Department. In his new department, senior IAS officer Khurshid Ahmad Ganai is already holding the key posting of FC Industries and Commerce. Sources insist that Minister of CAPD and Transport Choudhary Ramzan put his put down and succeeded to shift Bhagat after he received a plethora of complaints of corruption against some senior officers and officials in the office of State Transport Authority.
Sources said that Choudhary Ramzan had brought malpractices of some present and former officers of Transport Department to the notice of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah a number of times in the last several months. However, fearing discomfiture of some IAS officers, Chief Minister and Chief Secretary did not act.
On Thursday, Vigilance Organisation Kashmir conducted a raid and caught some officials red-handed while indulging in corrupt practices. But, pressure from certain bureaucratic quarters on the so-called autonomous body resulted in hushing up of the matter.
At 5 p.m. on Thursday, Bhagat appeared in his office and began the exercise of the transfer of a number of MVIs and other officials as per his "commitment" to the incumbents. However, some of his subordinate officials advised him that it would be scandalous to issue the transfer of his subordinate officials after his own transfer. Still, Bhagat made it a point to issue the transfer order of two MVIs. Officials of his department disclosed to Early Times that such orders were always issued only after "some give and take."
"How can an officer himself under transfer issue the transfer orders of his subordinate officials. It's a big scandal. State Vigilance Organisation should take notice or declare itself as only a so-called autonomous body", said an official. |
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