In Punjab’s Firozpur district, authorities officers fabricated a brand new village on paper and siphoned off lakhs of rupees in authorities funds. This reminds of a well-known verse by famend poet Adam Gondvi – “In your information, the village’s climate seems rosy, However these figures are false, these claims are mere phrases.” Via this couplet, Adam Gondvi questioned claims about rural growth. Nevertheless, immediately’s corrupt officers have gone far past what even the poet might have imagined.
Officers created information for a fictional village named Nawan Gatti Rajoke and New Gatti Rajoke. Underneath the identify New Gatti Rajoke, they initiated 55 schemes, utilizing them as a entrance to embezzle Rs 45 lakh. Shockingly, solely 33 growth schemes have been carried out in the actual village, and the pretend village acquired extra grants than the precise one. In immediately’s DNA, Zee Information analysed the entire rip-off:
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With the revelation of this rip-off, everyone seems to be in disbelief. Residents of the border village themselves are baffled and unable to grasp the thriller of Nawan and New villages.
The fraud dates again to 2013, in the course of the Akali-BJP authorities in Punjab. Officers created a pretend village on paper and looted lakhs. In 2019, an individual found the rip-off and filed an RTI in search of info from the involved division. Almost 5 years later, the RTI response revealed the reality: officers and employees on the time had fabricated a village named New Gatti Rajoke and embezzled large sums in its identify.
In the meantime, the situation of the actual village stays dismal. With the publicity of this elaborate fraud, authorities now promise an investigation and strict motion in opposition to these concerned on this huge rip-off.
As Shakespeare famously wrote, “What’s in a reputation?” However the crafty officers of Firozpur turned the phrases Nawan and New right into a conspiracy so audacious that it has left not simply Firozpur however all of Punjab shocked.
(Reporter: Rajesh Kataria)
