Our Correspondent
Imphal, June 7 (EMN): Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren Singh said directive has been given to government’s monitoring cell led by Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Dr J Suresh Babu to investigate the alleged supply of substandard belts to the state police department soon after receiving complaints on social networking sites.
Dr Suresh Babu and DGP Manipur LM Khaute along with two teams of monitoring cell conducted verification of the stocks of the central store located at 1st Battalion Manipur Rifles and Imphal West SP’s office complexes.
He said the state government has constituted an inquiry committee to probe supply of poor quality belts to Manipur police department. The committee would be headed by Additional Chief Secretary Dr Suhel Akhtar along special secretary R Sudhan and IGP (Admin) Dr S Ibocha as the members. The report is expected to submit within a month’s time.Biren said he personally visited the stores later after the team informed him that the supplied belts were of very poor quality and inferior to the samples produced at the time of tender.
Stating that the belts recovered from these stores were of very poor quality, he said that it could be easily torn by hands without much effort. “It is unfortunate to detect such irregularities at a time when the government is putting efforts to boost the morale of the state security personnel who have been rendering service to the society day and night,” he said.
“M/s Md Gani Khan,the firm which had supplied such sub-standard belts to the Manipur Police Department had been blacklisted and a thorough investigation would be done against the firm.”
Stating that government would never tolerate such irregularities, he assured befitting action would be taken against those who were found involved.
The present Government has no ill-feeling or enmity against anybody however it is simply trying to penalise the wrongdoers, he added.
A review meeting was held on Tuesday at CM Secretariat to ensure timely completion of various developmental projects taken up by different government departments under the 100 days action plan programme.
The meeting discussed the status and progress of the various developmental projects being undertaken by different departments under the 100 days programme of the new government.
The chief minister asked all the administrative secretaries and head of departments to submit the progress and development of works on a daily basis to CM office.
Action plan were taken up under 100 days programme which includes providing of free wi-fi in public areas, connecting district headquarters under SWAN to enable video conferencing facilities, Jeewan Praman for pensioners, launching of Manipur journalist board, medical insurance schemes for journalists of the state and so on.
