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| BJP leader says corruption rampant in JKPCC | | After demitting office as its VC | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 4, 2018: A BJP leader on Wednesday raised voice against corrupt and other malpractices he found at Jammu and Kashmir Projects Construction Corporation (JKPCC) and demanded a probe.
It took him almost 15 months to speak about corruption, which raises serious questions over his conduct as Vice-Chairman of JKPCC.
Khalid Jehangir, who was appointed as Vice-Chairman of JKPCC last year by PDP-BJP government, wrote to Governor NN Vohra and leveled serious corruption allegations former works Minister Naeem Akhter.
In the letter, Jehangir has claimed that Naeem Akhtar, who was the minister for Public Works in the Mehbooba Mufti government and was a trusted aide of her, passed verbal for prestigious construction projects to his blue eyed persons.
In the letter, Jehangir has demanded a fact finding committee to probe the corruption in construction of various important projects including flyovers and hospitals.
He has also alleged that masses are being fooled by violation of rules and regulations, and while small projects go through e-tendering process, no such policy is implemented for the big projects and that the works Minister managed to allot such big projects to some influential people.
However Jehangir's move has surprised one and all and officers at JKPCC have started raising questions over his conduct.
"He preferred to remain silent when even your newspaper was carrying explosive reports. Why he didn't raise the voice against such malpractices at first? What forced him to remain silent for almost fifteen months," a senior officer JKPCC told Early Times.
Sources said that Khalid Jehangir was expecting continuation but it went otherwise.
Early Times was the first newspaper in Jammu and Kashmir to raise voice against such corrupt and malpractices in JKPCC. This paper had published almost over three dozen reports exclusively on JKPCC and highlighted the fact that how authorities at the corporation while floating norms to allot contractors to blue-eyed contractors after receiving huge bribes.
Although the respective governments assured probe into such case but the investigation into a single case wasn't completed and not a single officer or engineer was punished. |
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