Stop verbal tirade: Collector to NGOs

Eluru: The District Collector K Bhaskar averred that certain NGO leaders were engaged in targeting him for leveraging benefits in the district.

Addressing the press meet at the Collectorate’s mini-conference hall here on Saturday night, the Collector took a sad note of the attitude of NGO leaders’ saying that certain sections in the NGO association leaders were engaged in unleashing a malicious propaganda against him during the election time mere for petty gains.

It is not the first time the NGO leaders have resorted to a virulent campaign making baseless allegations against him, decried the Collector. He was unnecessarily targeted by the employees that they spent lakhs of rupees in terms of getting postings in the district.

The Collector hit out at employees that NGO leaders began feeling that their hopes were belied as there was no scope for them to engage in corruption activities in the district.

In the backdrop of lobbying taking up the NGO leaders did not yield the expected results they started making wide allegations against him, observed the Collector.

The Collector exhorted the employees to discharge their duties sincerely and complete the targeted work. In the same vein, the Collector supported the work-to-rule agitation taken by employees.

However, if the employees do not work, he is not going to spare them and will take a strict action against the erring staff, the Collector warned. Collector said that the employees are getting salaries from the peoples’ money.

Employees should justify for the salaries they are being paid, he added. The Collector made it clear that those who are absconding from the duties without prior intimation would have to be prepared to face action.

The Collector clarified that he had no personal vengeance against anyone. Action will be initiated against officials who failed to attain the given target, said the Collector.

Citing the instances of lobbying, the Collector said that a senior assistant had levelled serious allegations against a Tahsildar stating that the latter wanted the female staff in his room and sought action against the former.

Upon enquiry, it became clear that all the allegations made by the senior assistant turned out to be false. “You the media can understand the agony of Tahsildar’s family and the woman victim who had to face false allegations.”

the Collector lamented. As part of departmental action, the senior assistant was demoted as junior assistant for leveling false allegations, the Collector asserted.

In another instance, a Tahsildar who was posted at a given place failed in discharge of his duties. An employee sought leave on the grounds of preparing for the group-2 examinations and I categorically told him that only after adjusting the work will the leave be sanctioned to him.

In yet another case, a car driver without intimation had absconded from the duties for a long period of 12 years and returned to duties after getting higher income.

The NGO union leaders are backing the absconded driver and mounted pressure on him to take back him into service. He wondered how is it possible to give post to the driver who absconded from the duty for 12 long years. NGO need to answer this question, the Collector said.