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| Purchases made for Covid care centers come under scanner | | Gadbad, Gotala ! | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 3: Decision of the Union Territory (UT) administration to set up five-bedded Covid care centres at the panchayat level has provided an opportunity to mint money through illegal means in the name of pandemic.
Rs one lakh for each Panchayat was sanctioned amid a pandemic but higher-ups have yet not informed people where this amount has spent. The decision to open panchayat level Covid care centres was taken when the second wave of the deadly virus was at its peak and many centres were set up in an emergency.
When Covid-19 infection spreads in rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir, the Union Territory’s administration had decided in the the second week of May to set up 5-bedded Covid care centres at the panchayat level of all 20 districts.
It was decided that the centres will be equipped with basic isolation facilities like bed, water, medicines, masks, and gloves. Patients can even contact doctors through telemedicine and on helpline members.
On the condition of anonymity, a Sarpanch of Jammu district said that poor quality material was supplied in these centres because no one is answerable due to pandemic. “It is believed that blue-eyed officers who have the patronage of higher-ups, were assigned the job to make purchasing for these centres so no one even dares to ask any question”, he said and added that anyone who would dare to ask questions about the quality of the material would be dubbed as ‘anti-national’.
Sources said that oxygen concentrators and other expensive materials were provided in the panchayat level Covid care centre but in most of the villages people get power only for a couple of hours a day.
Another Sarpanch, who also wanted not to be quoted, alleged that is the name of pandemic and emergency purchasing were made for these centres with inviting any tender. “Who has supplied these oxygen concentrators in all panchayat level Covid care centre?”, he asked, adding, “other materials were also purchased without transparency and accountability”.
It was announced that for effective implementation of this plan, panchayat, and block development council members have been roped in but panchayat members were not involved in the process. |
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