Kundapur: Kota Poojary Pays Surprise Visit to Taluk Office, Suspends Official
Silvester D’Souza
Daijiworld Media Network – Kundapur (VM)
Kundapur, Dec 22: In the wake of complaints regarding inefficiency in the taluk office, district in-charge minister Kota Srinivas Poojary paid a surprise visit to the office on Friday December 21 and inspected the officials' work.
During his visit to the office, Poojary expressed dissatisfaction with the work done by the tahsildar.
As he had a meeting scheduled for Saturday December 22 in Madikeri, Poojary visited the office on Friday all of a sudden without informing the higher officials. He also asked the DC to send notice to the tahsildar asking him to explain the inefficiency in work.
Poojary also checked the attendance sheet of the employees during his visit. As per the information received, Poojary suspended S R Nayak, village assistant for not working efficiently and for fake recording of his presence in office. He also asked the DC to investigate the matter.
As there were frequent complaints in delay of land conversion work, Poojary promised to appoint five surveyors to get the work done quickly. Granting of funds under Kalyana Suraksha for the poor, pensions for widows and physically challenged and several other works were also pending in the office. In this regard, he asked officials to accept applications and speed up the work.
On the long queues in the ration card office, he said trained staff will be appointed soon in order to prevent long queues. He also informed that food and civil service department will soon be shifted to a building next to the police station.
Usually, very few officials are present in the taluk office, but on Friday during Poojary’s visit, all of them made it a point to be present. Even their tables were cleaned and documents were arranged neatly. This indicated that the news of the minister’s visit was known to insiders well in advance.
B Sadhashiv Prabhu, sub section officer; K Mohandas Shenoy, Kundapur municipality president; Sathish Shetty; Suchitra Umesh, Rajesh Kaveri, Manigopal among others were present.