Uttarakhand: Corruption worth crores in Doon councilor cleanliness committee! Did the councilors deflate the salaries of the sanitation workers?

A scam has come to light in the Councilor Sanitation Committee formed for cleanliness in the wards of the Municipal Corporation. After verifying the list of councilor committees, half the names were found missing. During verification, it was also revealed that someone else is now working in place of the employees in whose accounts the corporation is releasing salaries. In such a situation, fraud worth crores of rupees has come to light in the name of salaries of the employees employed by the Municipal Corporation for the cleanliness of the city.

After the scam came to light in the Councilor Sanitation Committee formed for cleanliness, many temporary women sanitation workers have been removed. But women are making rounds of the Municipal Corporation and pleading for their jobs. The Municipal Corporation has so far verified the sanitation workers in 88 wards.

This is the matter

During the tenure of the previous board of the Municipal Corporation, about 1000 sanitation workers were recruited through the Councilor Committee to improve the sanitation system. A minimum of five and a maximum of 16 employees were kept in each ward. Every month Rs 15-15 thousand per employee was being paid as salary. But after the dissolution of the board on December 2, when an attempt was made to make a new system, complaints of irregularities in the salaries and PF etc. of the employees started being received. After this, it was decided to transfer the salaries directly to the employees’ accounts.

This is how the scam came to light

For this, when the physical presence of each employee of the committees in the Municipal Corporation was collected from the Aadhaar card and bank account number, it was found that almost half of the employees are missing and someone else is working in their place. It became clear that salaries were not being given as per the list given. In the name of fraud in the name of salaries of the employees deployed in the city’s cleanliness system, the Municipal Corporation has paid about Rs 1.5 crore every month. The monthly salary of each employee is Rs 15 thousand. In such a situation, the Municipal Corporation has paid about Rs 90 crore in the last 5 years, out of about Rs 18 crore per year.

2 thousand employees instead of 15 thousand employees

Now the temporary women sanitation workers who were thrown out after verification are making rounds of the Municipal Corporation for their jobs. The victim, a sanitation worker resident of Indresh Nagar, approached the Municipal Corporation and requested for her job, saying that she was working as a temporary sanitation worker of the Municipal Corporation in place of someone else. The victim told that councilor Manoj Jatav had hired her in someone else’s place for two thousand rupees. The victim has been working for the last one and a half years. The victim was lured that she would get a permanent job in the Municipal Corporation. But he did not get a permanent job while he was also removed from the temporary service.

Salary will be released after verification

City Health Officer Avinash Khanna said that at present the verification work is going on in the wards. Verification of 88 wards has been done. 12 wards have been warned that verification of sanitation workers should be done as soon as possible. The wards in which there are no flaws. For this, salaries of sanitation workers will also be released after discussing with higher officials. In the wards where deficiencies are seen, salary will be given after making changes as per requirement. At present, cognizance is being taken of the work that the sanitation workers are doing. Data of such people is being collected by the corporation.

Municipal Corporation Administrator Sonika says that the Municipal Commissioner has been directed to investigate. Now whatever payment will be made to the sanitation workers will be given after the verification process. Also, there is no report from the Municipal Corporation yet. For which the Municipal Commissioner has been asked.