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Appointment of Director Vigilance illegal: BJP

Staff Reporter

Lieutenant-Governor urged to cancel the appointment

NEW DELHI: The senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Standing Committee member in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Vijender Kumar Gupta, has urged Lieutenant-Governor B.L. Joshi to intervene in the matter of alleged illegal appointment of an officer to the post of Director (Vigilance). He demanded that the appointment be cancelled immediately as the officer was neither eligible to hold the post nor his appointment had the approval of the House.

In a letter to the Lieutenant-Governor, Mr. Gupta urged him to nullify the appointment. He alleged that placement of the officer in the pay scale of Rs. 14,300-18,300 with retrospective effect for which he would not have been eligible in his parent department in the near future was backed by some motive and vested interest. The appointment of the officer as Director (Vigilance) and placing him in the higher scale was a serious matter from the administrative point of view and would encourage corruption, he charged. "The posting of an ineligible officer at such a sensitive post raises a lot of eyebrows and could be part of the plan by the higher authorities to brush under the carpet their continued acts of omission and commission. The matter needs to be probed thoroughly and responsibility should be fixed as to why proper procedure was not followed in the appointment and why recruitment rules were violated," he added.

Spelling out the rules, Mr. Gupta said besides violation of precedents, the appointment violated the provisions of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act.

As per the deputation guidelines framed by the Union Government and contained in Swamy's manual on establishment and administration chapter XIX on administrative matters, it is clearly mentioned that for drawing any officer on deputation from any undertaking prior consultation of the Union Public Services Commission was mandatory and this did not appear to have been obtained in this case.

"The post of Director (Vigilance) is a cadre post of Deputy Commissioner and the appointment authority in such cases is the Corporation. However, the MCD Commissioner has taken a decision at his level. The confirmation of the Government has also not been obtained in this case as per the requirement of Sector 89 (2) of the DMC Act."

Mr. Gupta said this and many others would be raised during the next meeting of the Standing Committee.

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