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50
officers suspended, notice to 355 for graft
Monday March 21, 2011 10:33:21 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: The
Maharashtra government Monday announced action against 405 employees
of the agriculture department, including the immediate suspension of
50 officers, accused of siphoning off funds from the central and
state aid packages for Vidarbha farmers.
Announcing the action in the state legislature, Agriculture Minister
Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil said that the funds were meant for the
farmers in six districts affect by farmland suicides in Vidarbha
region of eastern Maharashtra.
He said that 405 officers and employees have been found prima facie
guilty and served with show-cause notices.
Later, Vikje-Patil told reporters that 50 Grade I and II officials
shall be suspended immediately and action will be taken against the
remaining officials within a month.
He said that the irregularities in the Vidarbha packages came to
light in 2007 and a committee headed by Gopal Reddy, director of
V.P. Naik Mission for Farmers, was appointed by the then chief
minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who is presently the union rural
development minister.
It probed the allegations and submitted its report in 2008, which
was tabled before the legislature.
The concerned officials were served with show-cause notices in the
matter in November last year.
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