10 MC officials transferred

Sukhmeet Bhasin

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, August 10

The Local Bodies Department transferred 136 officials in municipal corporations, councils and improvement trusts across the state on Friday. This is for the first time that transfers at such a big level have been made.

In the transfer list issued by the Director of the Local Bodies Department, 10 officials of the Municipal Corporation of Bathinda have their names.

The department on Friday took back the additional charge of Bathinda from Ludhiana MC O&M branch SDO, Ekjot Singh, while accountant Ravinder Singh Walia has been again sent back to Ludhiana. He was shifted to Bathinda two months ago.

JE Yogesh Kumar and Sagar Garg have been transferred to Moga while Moga JE Abhinav Jain has been shifted to Bathinda.

Building inspector with additional charge of ATP, Pardeep Sehgal, has been shifted back to Ludhiana again. It is learnt that he was shifted to Bathinda three months ago.

Ludhiana building inspector Priyanka has been shifted to Bathinda and Moga building inspector Anu Bala, who earlier held additional charge of Bathinda, has been shifted to Bathinda in this list.

Bathinda’s only chief sanitary inspector, Satish Kumar, has been shifted to Moga, while sanitary inspector Jasveer Singh has been shifted to Ludhiana.

Now, Bathinda doesn’t have any chief sanitary inspector, whereas it has three posts. Of three, two posts had been lying vacant for the past long time.

Many officials are worried that their names have been included in the transfer list without any reason.

Sources in the department claimed that the transfer list was prepared a week before while in the coming days, senior officials would also be transferred.

It is learnt that names of those officials have been included in the list who had been working at the same station for the past three years.

The MCB is already facing staff crunch of officials and workers as for a long time, vacant posts have not been filled.

That’s the reason that most of the officials have been working with additional charge.