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| All eyes on Governor led SAC to remove Principal Dental College Srinagar | | Despite guilt being established action awaited against tainted medico | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, July 8: The state administrative council (SAC) headed by Governor Narendra Nath Vohra has to accomplish many tasks in the state and one of these tasks is to ensure that honest and upright people head the health institutions.
One such institution where there is complete mess is Government Dental College (GDC) Srinagar. The Principal of the college Dr. Reyaz Farooq is tainted and his guilt has been established by State Vigilance Organization (SVO) in 2012. Although, a First Information Report (FIR) has been registered against this medico he continues to cling on the chair of Principal GDC Srinagar.
Successive health ministers in the National Conference (NC)-Congress coalition government and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) government have for their own reasons taken no action against Dr. Reyaz. In-action against him has meant that the work culture has been badly hit at Dental College, Srinagar.
It would be in place to mention here that faculty members and students of GDC Srinagar gave vent to their anger, feelings and emotions while criticizing the role of the Principal of the college during their meeting with then Minister of State for Health, Asiea Naqash in the evening on 17-3-2018.
The meeting was convened when Head of Orthodontia Department at the college slapped a student when the latter refused to carry out menial domestic jobs of the former. The incident later turned into a full-fledged controversy with the government being forced to remove the HOD. However, no action was taken against Dr. Reyaz despite the demand of his removal by the students and faculty members.
It was during this meeting that some of the faculty members mentioned about the delay in making the publications public and said that same leads to delay in their promotion. The female faculty members told the minister that they are harassed by the college administration and they are not given the Annual Performance Report (APR) by the Principal of the college.
"The female faculty members told the minister that they are teased by Dr. Reyaz and they at times feel ashamed. All the faculty members told the minister that there is complete mismanagement at the college since the Principal is a caretaker Principal since 2004. There is complete dictatorship at the college with Dr. Reyaz acting like a dictator and a despot," said sources while sharing their views with Early Times.
During the meeting the students also referred to the problems they face on account of lack of transport adding that there is no student-faculty interaction at the college. They also said that they should be allowed to form a union and welfare fund that has accumulated to more than one crore should be utilized for the activities it is meant for.
Pertinent to mention here that SVO registered a case against Dr. Reyaz in 2012 after it was established that he had purchased medical equipment for GDC Srinagar and GDC Jammu at exorbitant rates thus causing loss in crores of rupees to the state ex-chequer. The multi-crore purchase scandal came to the fore after revelations that came through a Right to Information (RTI) application moved by Tanveer Hussain Khan.
After preliminary investigations that led to the revelation of purchase scandal the anti-corruption court in Srinagar started the formal investigations in the case. The inquiry established the fraud and finally a First Information Report (FIR) under FIR number 33/2012 under section 161 of Ranbir Penal Code was registered against Principal GDC, Srinagar.
The inquiry officer probing the case established that equipment was purchased on exorbitant rates in order to cause monetary benefits to Principal GDC, Srinagar and officials of the company that supplied the equipment. In his report to then Special Judge Anti-Corruption Kashmir, Aijaz Ahmad Mir, the inquiry officer had written that machine Orthophos X G5 DS Ceph had been procured on exorbitant rates in order to cause undue pecuniary benefits to Dr. Reyaz and some others.
After this Special Judge Anti-Corruption Kashmir directed SSP Vigilance Organization to register formal FIR in the case if in his opinion any ground for the same exists on the basis of the findings arrived at by the inquiry officer under the relevant provisions of law. The vigilance organization while carrying out probe also found that fraud has taken place and it was only after this FIR was filed.
The inquiry officer in his report said that he compared the rates of the equipment in the market and found that GDC Principal has paid more for the equipment so that he acquires benefits from the purchase. The rates of the equipment were also presented to the Anti-Corruption Judge by the inquiry officer in a tabular form in his report. |
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