BALANGIR SSA OFFICIALS BUNGLE CRORES OF RUPEES
Monday, 13 May 2013 |
SUDHIR MISHRA | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar
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IIn a bizarre incident, two employees, working in Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyan (SSA) project here, forged the signatures of various District Project
Coordinators since 2007-08 and withdrew money from banks worth crores of rupees
through cheques.
According
to an FIR lodged by the District Project Coordinator (DPC) at the Balangir Town
police station, accountant Jethu Sahu and cashier Daktar Sahu withdraw `97 lakh
from different banks through cheques by forging the signatures of several
District Project Coordinators in the last four years.
According to sources, the
whole thing came to light, when an employee of Utkal Gramya Bank (UGB) got
suspicious about a cheque and alerted the SSA officials. After an enquiry into
the incident, the whole scandal was exposed.
Moreover, the
investigating officials were shocked to find huge misappropriation of money by
the two employees with amount of sum running to `2 crore.
Balangir Town police
registered a case under Sections 409, 467, 471, 120(B) and 34 of the IPC.
Meanwhile, the police launched an investigation into the case and are trying to
nab the two accused who are absconding, said Balangir Town police station IIC
Srimant Barik.
Shame on such people ! Jethu Sahu and Daktar Sahu...they are criminals ! Such crime should not be taken so lightly by the police/ administration. Moreover, I am quite suprised to note that our monitoring system is so weak that the accountants and cashiers are able to drain off public money so easily !!! I would say the top management in SSA should also be blamed and punished for such carelessness in managing development funds.
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