Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 19
In the wake of a sanitary inspector’s arrest by the Vigilance Department, UT, and alleged irregularities in the Medical Officer of Health (MOH) department, MC Commissioner KK Yadav has decided to shift all 40 sanitary inspectors.
The commissioner said the transfers were going to be done in a day or two.
On August 17, Vigilance sleuths had arrested a sanitary inspector, Naresh Kumar, while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2,500 in Sector 29.
It is alleged that many sanitation workers are not found at the place of work assigned to them. Some senior officials often allow the practice for some vested interests.
MOH Dr Amrit Warring, however, refuted that any such practice was prevalent.
Recently, the civic body had served a notice on 42 sanitation workers found absent during duty hours. They were asked to reply to the notice in a week. Officials said outsourced employees would be sacked and their supervising officials would face a salary cut.
The MC Commissioner had earlier ruled that whenever a sanitation worker is found missing from the duty, his supervisory officers’ salary will be deducted. Yadav started cracking the whip in June after as many as 600 employees found were missing from place of duty, but were drawing salaries.
Many of them were either working at senior officers’ residences without any authorisation or remained busy in their own works.
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