Tough Nitish to withhold salaries of 70,000 employees
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar while cracking down on corruption in Bihar had ordered all state government officials and politicians to declare their assets on the state's website. While many have complied, there are thousands who haven't.
TOUGH AND spartan the Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, is in no mood to spare Bihar officials who couldn’t declare their assets publicly by the February 28 2011 deadline. The axe is likely to fall on nearly 70,000 officials who evaded Nitish’s diktat. It is learnt that there are 4.5 lakh Bihar government employees, besides a cadre strength of 329 IAS and 241 IPS officers. But nearly 70,000 officials have failed to comply with the order to fill assets declaration forms.
To weed out corruption from the state, Nitish Kumar had at first abolished the Legislature Fund and had ordered state employees to submit their assets details to the state government by February 28 2011 failing which their salary would be withheld.
Principal Secretary of the General Administration Department (GAD), Deepak Kumar, said that the government has decided to withhold the salary for the month of February of those officials who have failed to submit details about their assets.
He also added that the state government will make all the government officials' assets public in the next two to three days and post it on the state government official website because the Chief Minister's initiative to weed out the corruption is showing better results.
Nitish Kumar had declared a war against corruption after he took the second term as the Chief Minister of Bihar in November 2010.
Ever since the filling of the assets declaration form was made mandatory, it's estimated that nearly 85 per cent of the 4.5 lakh government officials, including the IAS and IPS cadres in Bihar, had submitted their assets by Tuesday night.
Setting an example, the Chief Minister and his cabinet colleagues had declared their assets on December 31 2010. The details are posted on the state government's website.
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