JAIPUR:
Councillors
of the
Jaipur municipal corporation
(JMC) met UDH minister Shanti Kumar Dhariwal on Thursday, complaining about few decisions recently taken by the
JMC
commissioner Vijay Pal Singh. Despite the Model Code of Conduct in place, Singh reportedly gave charge of higher posts to junior officials, bypassing senior officials.
Councillors said this is an arbitrary move by the commissioner to favour a few officials. The issue is that a junior engineer was given charge of executive engineer and a revenue inspector a charge of revenue officer. Both the officials already have many senior officials above them who were overlooked.
Bhagwat Singh Deval, chairman of building planning committee at JMC who was also among the councillors who met the minister said, “This is an arbitrary decision taken by the JMC commissioner Vijay Pal Singh. Many senior officials were there who were overlooked. This is injustice and it is a misuse of power given under the model code of conduct.”
Senior officials at JMC were not happy with the decision. Though no one had registered any complaint against the commissioner directly, but in a low tone, they have opposed the decision.
Another councillor said that corruption charge was also made against the JEN given charge of the executive engineer and an ACB inquiry is also registered against him. This is one of the rare incidents when such a decision was taken.
By the evening, after many raised opposition and pressure from the upper level of ministry, V P Singh finally took back his order. TOI tried to contact the JMC commissioner many times, but received no response.
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