Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SMK/MSP)

Mangalore, May 23: Mangalore City Corporation commissioner P K Subbayya has suspended a junior engineer of the Corporation for misleading the authorities and causing financial loss to the corporation.

The suspended engineer Nagendra N had given two false reports to the authority, certifying  that the road widening work from the house of Cyril Pereira to Badriya Jaumma Masjid in Jappinamogaru ward  had been executed and passed the bill to the contractor in question Krishna Kumble, resulting in a loss of Rs 78,666 to the MCC and in another report, had mislead the authority by wrongly stating that construction of road side wall, underground drainage and other repiar works  in Jeppinamogeru ward had been completed, resulting in payment a bill worth  Rs 86,965 to the concerned contractor, Amarnath.

The commissioner, who conducted spot inspection of these works, found that these works had not been executed and therefore ordered for suspension of the engineer for the violation of Karnataka Government Service Regulations, till further orders.

Based on a complaint filed by  City Development Standing Committee president and corporator Naveenchandra, two engineeres of the MCC are under suspension till further orders.