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RAIPUR: Because the Leader minister Bhupesh Baghel now not hesitating to take urged strict motion on lawsuits won towards corrupt-negligent officials all through his ongoing statewide “Bhet-Mulakat” excursion, his cupboard colleague has levelled critical fees towards the collector of Korba, one of the most easiest contributor districts of DMF fund, bringing up her as “corrupt officer, grossly misusing the general public fund”.
State Earnings, Crisis Control and Rehabilitation minister Jaisingh Agrawal in his grievance had claimed the Korba collector Ranu Sahu as inquisitive about huge corruption thru her unilateral non-transparent selections resulting in embezzlement of public (DMF) price range.
Agrawal has shot a letter highlighting his objections to the Secretary and Nodal officer of the state mining division and DMF in the hunt for his pressing intervention in suspending the impending DMF committee assembly referred to as through the collector and “forestall additional misuse of public cash”.
Korba, supplying 16 p.c of the overall coal manufacturing of the rustic and greater than the Jharkhand state, is the most important contributor to the DMF kitty with a number of hundred crores once a year.
“The collector is sanctioning works from the DMF fund as consistent with her personal needs that does not serve the general public passion. Save you the misuse of public cash and begin suitable motion. There is not any transparency in regards to the knowledge that had to be shared at the public area in regards to the licensed works allocated through the DMF committee in Korba”, alleged Agrawal.
The minister categorically asserted that the loss of any motion through the Secretary will similarly counsel his silent consent to the squandering of crores of rupees to the state thru embezzlement within the allocated works beneath the DMF scheme.
The collector could not be reached regardless of repeated makes an attempt nor did she reply to the message texted to her in the hunt for the response.
The opposition BJP nonetheless grasped the minister’s grievance to focus on the state executive. “We now have introduced the problem of huge irregularities in utilisation of DMF price range in Korba district to the data of the High Minister Place of work, house minister and DoPT urging them to intrude for placing issues proper. It’s surprising to search out the state minister had now not simply uncovered the cheating practices of the collector but in addition how corruption dominated the roost in paperwork”, mentioned Naresh Gupta, BJP prison cellular in price.
