ON THE DIRECTIONS OF AMAN ARORA, H&UD DEPT SLAPS SHOW CAUSE NOTICE TO 12 OFFICIALS

Chandigarh: Cracking the whip against latecomers, Punjab Housing & Urban Development (H&UD) department has issued show cause notice to its 12 erring officials for arriving late at a departmental meeting. They were asked to submit their replies within three days.

Those who were issued show cause notices include District Town Planners (DTPs) Suman Gupta, Ritika Arora and Harpreet Singh, Assistant Town Planners (ATPs) Gagan Chopra, Amarinderjit Singh, Planning Officers Paramjit Singh, Bhupinder Kaur, ADO Kuldeep Singh, Private Secretary Satish Kumar, Senior Assistant Vandna Sharma, Clerk Kavi Prakash Amoli, Steno Gurpreet Kaur.

Notably, Mr Aman Arora, Minister of Housing & Urban Development had called a meeting to discuss and resolve the issues pertaining to NOCs at his office at Punjab Civil Secretariat on Tuesday. However, showing a lackadaisical attitude, these employees couldn’t reach to attend the meeting on time.

Taking strict note of the dereliction in duty by these officials, the Cabinet Minister has directed Chief Administrative PUDA to issue them show cause notice while asking them to submit their reply within three days, failing which a strict action would be initiated against them, as per the law.

He said that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann led Punjab Government has adopted zero tolerance towards negligence in the working, and urged all government employees to join their duties on time for the smooth functioning of offices to ensure seamless services to people in transparent manner.