Action taken against 26 engineers and personnel for negligence in ‘Jal Jeevan Mission Scheme’

Bureau Prayagraj. The Rural Water Supply Department, which is working in mission mode to provide tap water to every rural house of the state, has taken major action against the engineers and employees who were negligent in their work. Actions like delay in the work of Jal Jeevan Mission project, suspension of 26 negligent engineers, departmental action, show cause notice etc. have been imposed.

Taking major action under the zero tolerance policy of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Additional Chief Secretary of Namami Gange Department, Anurag Srivastava has suspended 12 engineers of the rank of Executive Engineer, Assistant Engineer and Junior Engineer. At the same time, instructions have been given to conduct a departmental disciplinary inquiry against four executive engineers.

Apart from this, show cause notices have been issued to three executive engineers regarding slow progress in the project work. Also, after receiving complaints from various schemes, seven engineers have been transferred. This is the biggest action taken against Jal Nigam employees in the matter of lateness in recent times.

Suspension action has been taken against Lakhimpur Kheri Executive Engineer Avinash Gupta, Jaunpur Executive Engineer Soumitra Srivastava, Ghazipur Executive Engineer Mohd. Qasim Hashmi, Chandauli’s acting executive engineer Amit Rajput, Chandauli’s assistant engineer Sitaram Yadav, Bijnor’s assistant engineer Akbar Hasan, Auraiya’s junior engineer Anurag Goyal, Hathras’s Kuldeep Kumar Singh, Azamgarh’s Rajendra Kumar Yadav, Bareilly’s Roop Chandra, Barabanki’s junior engineer Avnish Pratap Singh and Kushinagar’s acting divisional accountant Dharmaprakash Maheshwari.

Jal Nigam Rural Department has ordered a departmental disciplinary inquiry against four engineers. This includes Executive Engineer Aman Yadav of Auraiya, Executive Engineer Ankit Yadav of Mainpuri, Executive Engineer Praveen Kutty of Prayagraj, Acting Executive Engineer Phool Singh Yadav of Shamli. Apart from this, show cause notices have been issued to three Ghaziabad executive engineers Bharat Bhushan, Amit Kumar posted in Agra and Rajesh Kumar Gupta posted in Mirzapur.