Puducherry: Puducherry Lt Governor Kiran
Bedi today dubbed as "administrative corruption" the
"diversion" of staff for "unauthorised duties" and said the
"theft" of services of personnel should be brought to an end.
In a whatsapp message to mediapersons here, the former
IPS officer said, "Diversion of staff to unauthorised duties
amounts to administrative corruption."
"This theft of services of personnel should be brought to
an end as it is a serious and uncontrolled corruption causing
loss of essential manpower to the concerned departments who
are too junior to resist diversions," she said.
Her comments come in the wake of a media report on
the government's reply to an RTI query, disclosing diversion
of workers from Public Works department to the offices of the
Ministers and MLAs in the Union Territory.
"There was diversion of staff including medical staff,
teachers, police, electrical technicians, drivers, helpers,
office staff and more," Bedi claimed.
Stressing on the need for mandated annual audit of
personnel services in the government departments, she said
every employee costs the exchequer.
Bedi also rued that nobody answered for this "theft of
services."
She sought to know whether this required a Public
Interest Litigation, judicial intervention for all Heads of
Departments to certify annually that their staff were on duty
in the offices they are meant for and drawing salary from the
offices.
The Congress government in Puducherry and Bedi have been
at loggerheads over several issues, ranging from medical
admissions to civic problems, for over a year.
