Bureaucrats who’ve been transferred out of Noida are failing to vacate official bungalows, inflicting a disaster through which new district officials can’t acquire a authorities residence. Consequently, the Noida authority introduced on Thursday that it had issued notices to six bureaucrats who had but to vacate their authorities residences regardless of being relocated to different cities a very long time in the past.
The choice was made after the authority chief govt officer (CEO), Lokesh M, discovered that new officials who’ve lately arrived within the metropolis are unable to acquire a authorities residence in Sector 14A, which homes the vast majority of senior officials, together with Indian administrative providers (IAS) officers and Indian police service (IPS) officers.
Lokesh M, a 2005 batch IAS officer, was appointed CEO of the Noida authority on July 19 after Ritu Maheshwari was transferred to Agra. Even Lokesh M had to look ahead to his official bungalow in Sector 14A as a result of the earlier CEO took time to vacate the residence.
“The authority had served them with notices to vacate the residences, and the interval ends on Friday. If these officials don’t vacate, we’ll submit notices exterior their homes and take stern motion below the foundations,” stated Lokesh M.
Among the many officials who haven’t but vacated their official houses is a girl retired officer who labored for the Noida authority from 2015 to 2018. One other official is a girl IAS officer who labored for the Noida authority from 2016 to 2017. An IAS officer assigned to the Noida authority between 2014 and 2016 has additionally not left the official residence. One other officer who labored for the authority from 2017 to 2020 has additionally not vacated. Amongst them are additionally two IPS officers who had been transferred in January 2023, and haven’t but vacated their official residence.
Apart from these six, there are different officers dwelling in sector 27 and 104, amongst different areas the place authorities residences are situated, who nonetheless want to vacate their official residence. The Uttar Pradesh authorities has directed the authority to launch a crackdown on such unlawful occupants.
In accordance to officials conscious of the matter, such officers don’t vacate these residences as a result of they’ve to pay much less lease than in the event that they privately lease property in Noida, which is situated subsequent to Delhi.
“An officer should vacate their residence two months after being transferred from the district. If they want to keep longer, they have to acquire permission from the chief govt officer of the Noida authority. If an officer resides in a authorities residence in violation of the foundations, then we label them an unlawful occupant and put together to take harsh measures towards all. We proceed to subject notices to unlawful occupants, requesting that they depart or face authorized motion,” stated a second Noida authority official, who requested not to be named.
