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Mohali Administration conducts crackdown campaign to root out corruption; 4 touts arrested
Public services should be provided in transparent manner, ADC directs officials
Mohali, July 20, 2021:
On the directives of Deputy Commissioner, Girish Dayalan, Mohali district administration on Tuesday conducted a crack down campaign to root out corruption and provide transparent public services to people. The teams arrested four alleged culprits, who used to take money from people for office work at the RTA office.
Jagdeep Saigal, SDM Mohali and Amanpreet Singh, DSP Cyber Crime formed teams to check corruption in the Court Complex near Sector RTA Office and Sector 82 Track. These teams successfully caught four touts named as Taranjeet singh, Manish kumar, Harjinder Singh, Yashpal Sharma and recovered nearly 100 licenses, RCs and files related to them, along with their mobiles and laptops. Legal proceedings have been initiated against them.
Additional Deputy Commissioner, Komal Mittal said that the district administration was receiving complaints that some people were using RTA Offices to take money from people for getting their work done and harass people. As per the directions received from the Deputy Commissioner, a team was formed, which conducted a surprise check and four persons were arrested by raiding the court complex near RTA office and Sector 82 track.
Mrs. Mittal said that the Punjab government was committed to provide a fair and transparent service environment to the people and if any government employee took bribes for work or any private person for taking work, strict action would be taken against him. At the same time, she said that the person who has the license for any specific job, should do the same only.
She urged the people that public services are the basic right of the people and if any government employee or any other person takes money for their work, a complaint should be lodged with the district administration officials immediately. Strict action will be taken against them immediately.
On this occasion Naib Tehsildar Arjun Singh Grewal along with SDM’s office team was present.