DEO suspended for absence from public hearings
Indore:
Indore district education officer
(DEO) was suspended on Tuesday for being absent from
public hearings
without prior intimation.
Collector Asheesh Singh
said he had explicitly directed all the officials to compulsorily mark their presence at the public hearings. "Adminsitrative officials must listen to grievances of applicants with seriousness and ensure their swift resolution in the public hearings," he said.
Despite the instructions, DEO
Sushma Vaishya
, was absent in the public hearing without authorisation, the collector said. Taking serious note of this, he wrote to divisional commissioner Deepak Singh, recommending the suspension of the official.
Acting swiftly on the proposal, the divisional commissioner released the suspension order for Vaishya. "As per the Indore collector's report, the DEO was absent from the public hearing on Tuesday. Despite instructing her in the past, she was also absent from many meetings and public hearings, which was creating unrest among people appearing in the public hearing with their complaints. The same is spoiling the image of the govt and administration," the order reads.
Thus DEO was suspended under section 9 of the MP Civil Service (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules 1966. Following the suspension of Vaishya, Indore zila panchayat CEO Siddhartha Jain assigned additional charge of DEO to joint collector (SDM) Vijay Mandloi.
In less than one year, it is the third official to be removed from the DEO post for different reasons. Earlier, DEO Manglesh Vyas was suspended due to a departmental inquiry into a case of financial fraud, while Pooja Saxena was replaced by Vaishya over a court order.
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