Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 13: The State Vigilance Commission has directed the Power Development Department to get an FIR registered in case of any power theft.
The direction in this regard was issued during a meeting of the State Vigilance Commission to review the preventive vigilance system and pending corruption complaints of PDD.
The meeting was chaired by Kuldeep Khoda, Chief Vigilance Commissioner and attended by both the Vigilance Commissioners and senior officers of PDD, SVC and State Vigilance Organization.
The PDD was directed that whenever and wherever a case of electricity theft or illegal connection comes to the notice of the department, FIR should immediately be registered against the defaulters and progress of investigation and trial monitored.
On account of large number of theft cases being detected, the Commission also decided to recommend to Government to earmark one police station each at Jammu and Srinagar for dealing with the offences under Electricity Act.
In the meeting, it was decided that 258 Vigilance complaints under enquiry with PDD shall be completed within 45 days. Further, to improve the enforcement of preventive vigilance, it was decided that the Departmental Vigilance Officers (DVOs) in respect of all engineering departments, henceforth, shall be the concerned Superintending Engineer of the district, instead of an Executive Engineer.
The Commission directed that e-tendering for works and procurement should be strictly enforced and any wrong tender filed should be rejected without entertaining any undue representations. Besides, procurement of material on exorbitant rates on the pretext of emergency be avoided. Instead for any fast moving spares required by the department, a rate contract should be fixed for the year.
The Heads of the Department were directed to personally look into the complaints regarding power theft, illegal connections and procurement of substandard material for different works.
The meeting was attended by R K Jerath, Vigilance Commissioner, Gous-Ul-Nisa, Vigilance Commissioner, B A Khan, Chief Engineer, EM&RE Wing Kashmir, Ajay Gupta, Chief Engineer, EM&RE Wing Jammu, Khurshid Ahmad Badoo, Chief Engineer, P&MM Wing J&K and other senior officers of Power Development Department, State Vigilance Commission and State Vigilance Organization.
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