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Palpa DDC to nab defaulters
Post Report
PALPA, April 12 : District Development Committee
(DDC), Palpa, has announced of initiating legal actions against its employees and
politicians failing to clear advances taken under various topics since last twelve years.
The DDC has recently developed a database of
accounts to identify individuals, who were in beneficial posts under Panchayat system and
have started corresponding with bad debtors - failing to settle ‘advance’
accounts, said Khadananda Chaulagain, Local Development Officer (LDO).
The committee has even constituted three-member
task forces under the coordinatorship of a DDC member at village-level to evaluate the
development projects and other activities for which the funds were released. "The
sub-committee is also endowed with the responsibility to issue clean chit to debtor if the
work has been completed with the proper utilisation of funds," he said.
Source at the committee, meanwhile, informed The
Kathmandu Post that the task force has submitted already submitted reports on some of the
projects launched then clearing its accounts. "However, in most of the areas, the
committee yet to develop reports," said the official. According to him, ‘advance’
account worth Rs 11.34 million is yet to be settled in the district since the Panchayat
regime.
Bad debtors in the various cases include
political activists of Panchayat regime, representatives of larger political parties like
Nepali Congress, Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) and Rastriya
Prajatantra party, and former district development officials and local development
officers.
Even the officials of Village Development
Committees (VDCs) have taken an advance worth Rs 9.35 million from the DDC as of now.
Likewise, the committee is yet to recover amount worth Rs 166 thousand local liquors
factories under various headings.
Former LDO, Abdul Rais Khan, and district
development employees are yet to settle advance account worth Rs 43,000, while VDCs are
still to submit their expenditure report on how much and in which programmes they spend
the block grant worth Rs 967 thousand.
Moreover, reports on utilisation of fund
released in advance worth Rs 1.10 million for rural road construction, Rs 152 thousand for
maintaining suspension bridge, Rs 26,500 for drought relief, Rs 6,000 for irrigation
channel and Rs 358 thousand for flood relief are still to be submitted to the DDC.
Among others, advance accounts still to be
settled include Rs 11,200 released to VDCs secretaries for various purposes, Rs 103
thousand for local construction works and Rs 1.05 million taken by various DDC officials
for development works on personal guarantee.
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