Probe ordered into ‘immoral’ activities at Rai sports school

Sushil Manav

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 28

The state government has ordered an inquiry into alleged wrongdoings in the Motilal Nehru School of Sports at Rai, Sonepat. IAS officer Ashok Khemka has been entrusted with the inquiry.

The probe has been ordered after school’s Director Principal Bharti Arora wrote to Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Anil Vij, accusing certain employees enjoying political patronage of “corrupt” and “immoral” activities.

Internal strife between two senior Cabinet ministers has come out in the open in the process.

Sources said Arora alleged in her letter that some employees, who enjoyed administrative and political patronage in the past, were brazen in their activities, which were not only illegal, but also immoral.

Arora, according to sources, alleged in the letter: “I immediately took note of their activities and addressed the grievances of those victimised by these employees. Unfortunately, some of these employees have political connections. They have been harassing and intimidating their innocent colleagues. The women employees of the institute of all ranks have been suffering because of the corrupt and immoral activities of these employees.”

The Director Principal also alleged that she was pressurised to extend undue favour to corrupt officials by the staff of a minister and the minister himself.

“Not surprisingly, I was targeted in a planned manner on a trivial matter of relieving an official on deputation from the Finance Department,” Arora’s letter further reads.

Taking note of her complaint, Vij requested Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar to order an inquiry by a senior IAS officer.

“It has been brought to my notice that such officials (those mentioned in Arora’s letter) have been making complaints about the functioning of the institution to another minister and not me. It is a serious matter,” Vij said in his communication to the CM, asking him to intervene and save the prestige of the institution.

The allegations 

• Motilal Nehru School of Sports Director Principal Bharti Arora has accused certain employees enjoying political patronage of ‘corrupt and ‘immoral’ activities.
• “They have been harassing and intimidating their innocent colleagues. The women employees of the institute of all ranks have been suffering because of the corrupt and immoral activities of these employees,” she says in the letter to Sports Minister Anil Vij