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| Theft of community latrines alleged | |
| 2008-05-14 | |
The sarpanch of backward Gangapada gram panchayat has alleged that concrete structured community latrines were stolen from the village.
Mrs Mamatarani Dhal, in a note to Kendrapara block development officer, charged that there has been theft of two latrines built during 2006-financial year as part of village sanitation programme. "After I got elected as the head of the panchayat body last year, I had made it a point to take stock of movable governmental assets and property under the panchayat jurisdiction". "I was shocked to be informed that there is no physical trace of the recently built latrines. Thus I take it for granted that either theft has occurred or central grants spent for the purpose were gobbled up by the then PRI members. That is when I thought it prudent to register an official complaint before launch of a thorough inquiry into the matter," Mrs Dhal added. "In the event block officials ignore my complaint, I would lodge an FIR in the nearest police station," she added. The latrines that now stay on the top of missing gram panchayat assets had purportedly come up during 2006-07 fiscal year at allocated of Rs 40,000. The funds spend were released from twelfth finance commission grants. It is widely believed that the grants were never spent for the building of latrines. Instead the then PRI members made outright embezzlement of the same. The physical existence of the "contentious" latrines was confined to the gram panchayat records only. | |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #1 The sarpanch of backward Gangapada gram panchayat has alleged that concrete structured community latrines were stolen from the village. This article reminds me of reading the newspapers in India - they were nominally in English, but with a whole bunch of words that made no sense at all - sarpanch, gram panchayat, etc. At least on the web, I can look up the terms, and sometimes even find them via wikipedia, google or other sources. |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-05-14 18:21 |