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Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
By Our Special Correspondent
The figures involved are baffling. So is the manner in which these were sought to be shown as spent. The department was actually allocated Rs. 38.39 crores as Tribal Sub Plan pooled fund, ie. fund taken back from the local bodies. Confronted with the daunting task of spending such a huge sum, the department initially decided to divert a part of it to non-Plan schemes. This was in violation of norms, but still it helped the officialdom to show around Rs. 21 crores as having been spent. But that still left Rs. 18.03 crores, Rs. 2.38 crores in hard cash and Rs. 15.65 crores in the form demand drafts. The Project Officers (POs) and Tribal Development Officers (TDOs) must have been a harried lot during the last three months. Given the kind of facilities at their offices, there was no way the POs or TDOs could keep lakhs of rupees safely. Some, it is said, had to take safety lockers in banks. The figures are mind-boggling. When a review was undertaken on April 25, in Thiruvananthapuram, POs and TDOs together had Rs. 31.44 lakhs in their hands. In Pathanamthitta, the amount came to Rs. 30.34 lakhs. In Wayanad, the officers at Kalpetta alone had a whopping Rs. 1.13 crores in their hands!
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