Govt suspends four dist khadi officers, shunts 2

Lucknow: Four district Khadi Gramodyog officials were suspended while directions for transferring two others were issued for their failure to meet targets.
The directions were issued by Khadi Gramodyog minister Sidharth Nath Singh on Tuesday during a review of the department, along with additional chief secretary (khadi) Navneet Sehgal.
During the review of the CM Gramodyog Scheme, PM Employment Generation Programme, CM Maati Kala Rozgar Yojana, it was observed that in districts Etah, Shravasti, Maharajganj and Gautam Budh Nagar, the officials concerned were not showing any urgency in ensuring that the benefits of these schemes reached the intended beneficiaries.Out of 75 districts, these four had the worst performance. Officials of these districts had been given warnings in the past as well, said Sehgal but there was no improvement in their performance and therefore, directions were given for their suspension.
Other than this, directions to transfer the district gramodyog official of Sultanpur and an official from Gorakhpur were also issued.
Singh said that these schemes were being run for the weaker sections of society and no carelessness would be tolerated. He said that no department is to surrender their budget without a valid reason.
Sehgal said that to provide greater visibility to khadi, attempts were being made to connect all khadi production centres to large supply chains like Raymonds. He said that the Board has prepared a plan for manufacturing government school uniforms from khadi and all production centres would be upgraded for this.