UP:Bring Durga IAS Back, Pressure mounts on Akhilesh; will SDM's suspension be revoked?, UP,SDM, Durga Shakti Nagpal, IAS, Akhilesh Yadav, Latest news, latest and breaking news,politics updates.
- Details
- Category: UP Political News
- Last Updated: Thursday, 22 January 2015 20:46
| UP:Bring Durga IAS Back, Pressure mounts on Akhilesh; will SDM's suspension be revoked? |
|
Lucknow:
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is under pressure after IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal was suspended allegedly for going tough on the sand mining mafia in Greater Noida. After widespread outrage and criticism from the Opposition and the IAS officers association, her suspension may just be revoked. "A suspension order isn't up for debate, I will look into this on Wednesday," said Akhilesh Yadav, promising a review of his own decision. Durga, a 2009 batch IAS officer, had ordered a crackdown on illegal sand mining rampant on Yamuna and Hindon river beds. But she was suspended for her decision of bringing down a wall of a mosque in a village in Greater Noida, a move which generated some tension on the ground. The question is whether Durga Nagpal mishandled the situation on Saturday. The villagers in Kadalpur say she came without an order to bring down the wall of the mosque and ever since the construction began in the last two months, no notice was served. But all the religious communities had given their consent in the construction of the mosque and that it was being done on a village land which wasn't illegal. But within the bureaucracy of UP, Durga's suspension is being looked at as political high handedness. UP IAS officers association even complained to the state Chief Secretary. CNN-IBN has learnt that Durga Nagpal had prepared a list of sand mining units operating illegally in the area. It is believed that a local Samajwadi Party leader Narendra Bhati, who is allegedly linked to the mining mafia, put pressure on the party leadership to get the officer shifted. This is one reason why the matter has taken strong political overtones. "I merely informed the authorities that the wall of the mosque has been brought down. After that they took the action against Durga Nagpal. Nothing more should be read into this," Bhati said. "Damages should be imposed against those who take arbitrary decisions against honest IAS officers," said bureaucrat and whistleblower Ashok Khemka. source:http://ibnlive.in.com |
