Srinagar, June 2 : In a desperate bid to conceal alleged bungling, a need-based employee has been charged to overlook official records of water tanker services of Jal Shakti Department (previously PHE) at Sumbal division in Bandipora district, official sources said.
They told GNS that the disclosure has been made after one of the department drivers, who had from the office concerned on apprehensions of embezzlement, sought the office log book to check records. “However, instead of providing the details, the driver was transferred, probably to obscure the bungling”, the sources said.
Detailing further, the sources said, as per official protocol, the mandate to keep the log book lies with JE rank official, however the office has trivialized the mandate with absolute impunity by assigning the same to a need-based employee. “It is an important book on which the department is supposed to maintain records pertaining to mobilization of water tankers and fuel consumption besides other allied details and trivializing it (log book) has raised serious questions on the overall working of the particular office with insiders already expressing apprehensions of large scale bungling”, they said.
When contacted, AEE Concerned told GNS that they will see into the matter and if at all required agencies concerned are to be roped in to investigate the matter thoroughly to alleviate the apprehensions.
