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23 housing officials suspended

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HYDERABAD: Twenty-three officials of the housing programme being implemented under the Indiramma have been suspended following detection of irregularities committed by them. A few of them have been dismissed from service.

The employees punished included a deputy engineer, four assistant engineers, and several work inspectors. Three of them were at Nuzvid in Krishna district from where the latest case of irregularities came to light.

Housing Minister B. Satyanarayana announced these details at a press conference here on Tuesday to assert that there was no corruption involved in implementation of the housing programme and deny the charge made by CPI(M) State secretary B. V. Raghavulu that Indiramma was a “big scam”.

The Minister said the programme was made so transparent that the details of the beneficiaries and payments made against the bills for the constructed houses were all provided online. Any person could verify them and challenge the Government if there was any discrepancy, he said. Mr Satyanarayana offered to take Mr. Raghavulu to any colony of the latter’s choice, completed under the programme, to prove the Government’s viewpoint. He, however, admitted that “small lapses here and there are possible”. He wanted to know from Mr Raghavulu whether West Bengal Government could ever think of such scheme to saturate the housing needs of all the needy, and if so, whether it could implement it without a single complaint.

Mr Satyanarayana ruled out possibility of appointing another committee as sought by Mr. Raghavulu to oversee the allotment of house-sites in the State, saying Assignment Committees already are in place.

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