Lapses in rural schemes: Sr engineers suspended

The nexus between engineers and contractors to carry out work as per their whims and fancies without approval and get payment through inflated bills claiming work done earlier as theirs got exposed during a departmental inquiry that led to the suspension of two senior engineers of Bihar's rural works department (RWD).

- Arun Kumar

PATNA:

As part of the government crackdown on corruption in execution of the government schemes in rural areas, the revenue and land reforms department also put under suspension three revenue service officials responsible for denying benefits to the landless under the Basera-2 campaign due to wrong information furnished by them to mislead the department and gross negligence. The three suspensions were in addition to suspension of three other revenue officials earlier.

In the RWD, the two suspended engineers include Keshav Sahni, then executive engineer at Marhoura and at present chief engineer (maintenance and upgradation), and Parmeshwar Mehra, then junior engineer at Marhoura and now assistant engineer (Sonepur). Both were found complicit in allowing inflated payment to the contractor in the construction of road under the Gram Sampark Yojana.