Khagaria CO axed for dereliction of duty
Brajesh Kumar Patil
, the circle officer (CO) of Khagaria Sadar block, on charges of gross negligence in the performance of his official duties.
The action was taken by the department's disciplinary committee based on a probe report submitted by the Khagaria DM's office. A formal suspension letter was issued by Anil Kumar Pandey, joint secretary of the department. Patil is accused of dereliction of duty and failure to perform core responsibilities.
Among the allegations are violations of the Bihar Land Mutation Act, negligence in distributing settlement certificates to surveyed families under Abhiyan Basera-2, a scheme aimed at providing land to eligible homeless families, despite departmental directives and failure to complete mobile number and Aadhaar seeding in the
online jamabandi system
. He has also been charged with failing to monitor the work of amins in e-measurement, adversely impacting revenue collection due to delays in updating jamabandis and ignoring directives from the district public grievance redressal officer.
Further charges include not providing land for the construction of Panchayat Sarkar buildings, showing disinterest in updating online rent records and disobeying an order issued by the Patna high court.
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