KNZ NEWS DESK
Another scandal has surfaced in Bandipora as 129 GP Fund accounts of Health Department employees working in Bandipora district of North Kashmir have been found fake.
Health sector in Bandipora district is in news from past few months for all the wrong doings as many scandals have been exposed in which some officials were suspended/attached or transferred by the department.
This time the officials working in the department crossed limits by recruiting employees and posted them in border areas to avoid expose of mafia.
An investigation by the Department Of Finance has found 129 General provision Fund accounts fictitious which apparently looks like fake recruitment scandal run by some officials of health department.
Documents available with Kashmir Convener reveal that over 129 GP Fund subscriptions, 86 from Gurez Block, 26 from Bandipora Block and 17 from Hajin block were found fake after the investigation by Local Fund office.The subscriptions of these employees according to sources are made from last 20 years which are recruited in violation of norms.
The Chief Accounts Officer, District Fund Office Bandipora while making the posting of monthly GP schedules under computer series 7501…smelled rat and asked for documents of employees from health department who failed to produce the same.
A letter bearing no CAO/DFO/BPR/1739-40 Dated: 22-01-2018 which lies with Kashmir Convener reveals that the computer series 7501…stands allotted to District Fund Office Baramulla at the time of switching on to computerization of GP fund. Since these employees where entirely new entrants to the GP Fund after the creation of District Bandipora, as such created doubts in minds of finance officials which constrained them to forward the list of these numbers to Chief Accounts Officer District Fund Office Baramulla for obtaining their authenticity/clarification, reads the letter.
Chief Accounts Officer, Fund Office Baramulla after a thorough verification of his records has reported that these numbers are out-rightly fictitious and do not find any place in records.
The letter further reads that rules and regulations have been violated during the contribution of GP Fund which even creates doubts about the recruitment of the employees in the Health Department. “Government has framed criteria for the contribution of GP Fund, that norms seem to have been violated and the Funds Organization has been cheated as well,” letter reads.
Meanwhile, the Fund Office Bandipora has asked Health Department to stop the monthly contribution towards GP Fund of the employees in question.Chief Accounts Officer, Directorate of Health services Kashmir has also communicated vide letter no DHSK/Acctts/7421-22 dated: 30-01-2018 to CMO Bandipora, BMO’s of Hajin , Gurez and Bandipora to withheld the salaries of these 129 fake GP fund employees till further orders, reads the letter.
“Furthermore the salary of Mr. Rafiq Nasir, head x-ray technician Block Gurez shall also not be drawn till instructions on the subject are communicated to you from this directorate,” further reads the order from DHSK to CMO Bandipora.
Chief Medical Officer Bandipora, Bashir Ahmad Chalkoo said that they have received communication from fund office Bandipora that some GP Fund numbers are fictitious and consequently he has directed all the concerned BMO’s to withheld the salary of these numbers until their genuineness are not proved, he said.
