Look who's not paid their rent!

HYDERABAD: They may be involved in making major administrative decisions or in-charge of law and order, but several IAS and IPS officers have been found wanting when it comes to paying up the rent for their official accommodation.
The Telangana Estates Office has drawn up a list of 27 serving IAS and IPS officers and 14 retired ones who together have accumulated dues to the tune of nearly Rs 1.5 crore.These officers were provided accommodation at the senior officers' flats in Kundanbagh, IJ type quarters in Erram Manzil, PJ type quarters and independent houses in Punjagutta and flats in Banjara Hills.
As per rules, once an officer is transferred out of Greater Hyderabad, he or she is allowed to stay in the official accommodation for two more months. In cases where the transfer happens after September 30 and if the children are studying in Hyderabad, the officer can retain the quarters till the end of the academic year. After the grace period is over, a penal rent of Rs 15,000 per month for the first two months followed by Rs 20,000 per month has to be paid for retaining the accommodation.
However, 27 serving IAS and IPS officers belonging to the two cadres have piled up huge dues in the form of penal rent. They include MG Gopal (Rs 3.6 lakh), Rahul Bojja (Rs 70,000),Dinesh Kumar (Rs 90,000), P Lakshmi Narasimham (Rs 1.06 lakh) of the IAS, and R K Meena (Rs 6.88 lakh), Y Gangadhar (Rs 1.64 lakh), Swati Lakra (Rs 1.89 lakh), T Murali Krishna (Rs 3.3 lakh), P Umapathi (Rs 3.1 lakh), G Sudheer Babu (Rs 3.08 lakh), J Satyanarayana (Rs 5.36 lakh) and N Sambasiva Rao (Rs 1.87 lakh) of the IPS.
In the case of retired officers, they are allowed a grace period of three months and a penal rent of Rs 10,000 per month from the fourth month onwards is charged. Fourteen officers have piled up huge dues. They include Pankaj Dwivedi (Rs 50,000), P Krishnanaiah (Rs 3.61 lakh), K V Ramanachary (Rs 1.75 lakh) of the IAS, and C N Gopinath Reddy (Rs 1.77 lakh), Chandra Manoharam (Rs 2.02 lakh) and K Lakshman Mohan (Rs 82,000) of the IPS. Retired IPS officer AK Mohanty, who had dues of Rs 1.7 lakh, has agreed to pay up in 10 installments and has already paid up the first one, GAD sources said.
Incidentally, there are eight serving All India Service officers who in 2007 had met then chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and got 75 per cent of the dues waived off. But they are still to pay the remainder of the dues. The officers include K T Ujela (Rs 16,666), B Malla Reddy (Rs 1.78 lakh), N Suryanarayana (Rs 1.38 lakh), N Balasubramanyam (Rs 13,000), all IPS, Vibha Sood (Rs 10,925), IAS and Mohd Ilyas Rizvi (Rs 1 lakh) and R U Kashappa (Rs 1 lakh) of the Indian Forest Service.
All these officers have not responded to the several notices issued to them by the authorities. "Now, we will serve notices to them under the Revenue Recovery Act to make them pay up the penal rents. They will be given one month to clear the same. If they still fail to do so, we will have no other option but to attach their movable assets like four-wheelers, etc," Ravindra Babu, Estate Officer, Hyderabad, Telangana, told TOI.
The Accountant General (AG) office's recent audit also revealed details of the pending rent dues of the officers.
Babus and their dues
* MG Gopal (IAS): Rs 3.6 lakh
* P Lakshmi Narasimham (IAS): Rs 1.06 lakh
* R K Meena (IPS): Rs 6.88 lakh
* Y Gangadhar (IPS): Rs 1.64 lakh
* Swati Lakra (IPS): Rs 1.89 lakh
* T Murali Krishna (IPS): Rs 3.3 lakh
* P Umapathi (IPS): Rs 3.1 lakh
* G Sudheer Babu (IPS): Rs 3.08 lakh
* J Satyanarayana (IPS): Rs 5.36 lakh
* N Sambasiva Rao (IPS): Rs 1.87 lakh