Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee On Monday, Purulia district magistrate Rahul Majumdar was reprimanded after she received a complaint about misappropriation of revenue collected from brick kilns by “unknown collection agents” and said she would have given a tough slap if a TMC worker was involved in corruption. He warned of legal action against the employees of the Land Revenue Department if they were involved.
“DM, are you listening to complaints? Lower level officials in your administration are eating away at the money collected. It is not done by the people of Trinamool Congress party. What are you doing? How are you running the administration in this district? “If it was done by a member of my party, I would have given him a hard slap. I am giving a lot to the people, yet they need a lot. Why have people become so greedy these days?” Banerjee said.
During the meeting, a representative of Hura block alleged that the revenue collected from brick kilns was not reaching the government. He alleged that people employed to collect revenue were snatching it. “Earlier, I used to think that only politicians are thieves… they defame. But there should be goodwill among the people engaged in government work for the people. If anyone has made a mistake, I suggest them to rectify it,” the chief minister said.
Banerjee, who was on an administrative visit to Purulia, advised the officials to file a police complaint if they felt they were “being framed”. The chief minister, who was addressing an administrative review meeting at Rabindra Bhavan here on Monday, hit out at the Purulia district administration for the lax attitude, delay in completing several projects as well as providing services to the tribals here. .
He directed the administration to solve the problems at the earliest. Showcasing pictorial documents of projects, which had not yet started despite being operational for a long time, Banerjee said her office has been receiving complaints from residents that the work is incomplete as middlemen are demanding money for completion. Were.
“Ordinary citizens are not getting help when they go to the BLRO office. They are falling prey to middlemen,” she said. Banerjee said that the time has come for reshuffle in the BLRO department. “I see a lot of projects are in process. What is this ‘under process’ thing? I want all the work to be finished on time.”
He directed the District Magistrate to clear all pending works within three months and, if necessary, organize a special ‘Duare Sarkar’ camp. “I am not satisfied at all with the performance of the administration. I am very disappointed because the land related problems of the tribals have not been resolved. I want the administration to resolve these issues immediately. I want them to strengthen Bangla Help Center (BSK) and make it more active and effective.
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