8 HSVP officials chargesheeted for arbitrary handling of online pleas
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PANCHKULA: Coming hard on the arbitrary rejection of online applications for transfer of property, mortgage and building plans by the estate office employees with dubious intentions, the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) has chargesheeted eight officials posted in Gurugram, Faridabad and Karnal estate offices.
HSVP, formerly known as HUDA, suspects the officials to have acted in a male fide manner, as the same applications, without any changes, were found to be approved after few days.
Confirming the action, J Ganesan, chief administrator, HSVP, said, “The action has been taken as these officials were rejecting applications and granting approvals without proper reasons.”
Four officials in Gurugram, three in Faridabad and one in Karnal estate offices, in the rank of junior engineer and accountant, have been chargesheeted.
“They have been asked to explain their conduct in rejecting and approving applications on dubious grounds. They have acted against the HSVP efforts in bringing transparency in public dealings,” said a senior HSVP official based in Panchkula on condition of anonymity.
HSVP grants online approval for transfer of property, mortgage and building plans. The online applications have to be approved or rejected by the estate office officials in a timebound manner. Officials have to give reason in writing on the online portal for denying approval in any of the cases.
The instances of arbitrary rejection and approval of applications were spotted by the HSVP information technology (IT) department after a threemember ‘micro-monitoring’ team was formed at the HSVP headquarters in Panchkula to keep track of cases of rejection of applications.
“The online process was created to stop any instance of corruption in estate offices. After the process was made operational, there were some public complaints that applications were being rejected to fleece the applicants. Grant of approvals in HSVP have now been digitalised and can be kept track of,” said the HSVP official.
The team monitored online transactions, and randomly checked the cases where the applications were being rejected and studied the reasons for denial of approval. They discovered that estate officials were first rejecting the applications giving flimsy reasons. But after a few days without any change or rectification in reasons for application rejection, officials were granting approval.