Chandigarh Municipal Corporation chargesheets XEN, SDE over 'illegal' road

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 26

The Municipal Corporation (MC) today issued a chargesheet against an Executive Engineer (XEN), Sub-Divisional Engineer (SDE) and initiated legal action against a former junior engineer (JE) for illegally constructing a road on private land at Faidan Nizampur village with the government machinery and funds.

The chargsheets were issued against XEN (Roads-1) Ajay Garg and SDE (B&R) Jagdeep and legal action was initiated against JE Amrik (retired) by the orders of MC Commissioner Anindita Mitra this morning.

After conducting an inquiry into the matter, a report was submitted to the Commissioner in which the rules to use Ward Development Fund (WDF), including guidelines for selection and execution of WDF scheme framed by the MC, were found to be violated as the land selected for execution of works should be necessarily be corporation land.

According to the report of the Patwari Revenue, the Kanungo and the Patwari of the MC, the ownership of the land in question at Faidan Nizampur village has been found to be private as per the revenue record and does not belong to the government or the MC, Chandigarh.

The Commissioner has ordered chargesheets under major penalties be issued against the engineers responsible for the construction of the road.

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