<p>Heads may roll in the Delhi government soon as the Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung on Tuesday set-up a three-member committee to review around 400 files submitted by the AAP government for "infirmities and irregularities" and fix responsibility of officials for suspected lapses.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The files were submitted to Raj Niwas following the August 4 Delhi High Court order dismissing the AAP government challenge to the LG’s superiority in administrative decisions in the Union Territory.<br /><br />“On preliminary scrutiny of these files, it is found that over the last one-and-a-half years several decisions taken are in violation of Acts/Rules with attendant legal and financial implications. <br /><br />“It has become necessary to examine them in depth and suggest forward action. Therefore, the Committee has been constituted,” the LG's office said in a statement.<br /><br />Apart from determining if decisions taken by the AAP government without the approval of the LG are illegal, the Committee will “examine the role played by the public functionaries/officers of the GNCT of Delhi and of any other individual related with these violations and fix responsibility”.<br /><br />The Committee’s mandate includes determining whether the decisions taken in these files and the processes adopted were in violation of the Acts/Rules and the constitutional scheme for governance of Government National Capital Territory of Delhi.<br /><br />It will also determine, within six weeks, whether such violations were wrong, illegal and deliberate acts of omissions/commissions, said a Raj Niwas statement.<br /><br />The Committee comprises former CAG V K Shunglu, former Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami and ex-Chief Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar.<br /><br />The panel was formed a day after the LG shifted two heads of departments – PWD and Health - hand- picked by the AAP government for its ambitious projects to build new classrooms and mohalla clinic.<br /><br />Soon after the High Court judgment, the LG asked heads of departments to review instances where his approval was not taken.<br /><br />The Committee has been asked to suggest "appropriate administrative/criminal/civil action as well as action for recovery of financial loss to the government exchequer, if any, by such wrong decisions against the public functionaries /officers/individuals concerned".<br /><br />The committee will recommend the course of action to be taken on each of the files/proposals including whether the decisions can or cannot be regularised by the LG, said Jung's office.<br /><br />The panel will give submit its interim reports before the final report and outline the administrative, legal and financial repercussions of the regularisation/non-regularisation of the decisions.<br /></p>
<p>Heads may roll in the Delhi government soon as the Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung on Tuesday set-up a three-member committee to review around 400 files submitted by the AAP government for "infirmities and irregularities" and fix responsibility of officials for suspected lapses.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The files were submitted to Raj Niwas following the August 4 Delhi High Court order dismissing the AAP government challenge to the LG’s superiority in administrative decisions in the Union Territory.<br /><br />“On preliminary scrutiny of these files, it is found that over the last one-and-a-half years several decisions taken are in violation of Acts/Rules with attendant legal and financial implications. <br /><br />“It has become necessary to examine them in depth and suggest forward action. Therefore, the Committee has been constituted,” the LG's office said in a statement.<br /><br />Apart from determining if decisions taken by the AAP government without the approval of the LG are illegal, the Committee will “examine the role played by the public functionaries/officers of the GNCT of Delhi and of any other individual related with these violations and fix responsibility”.<br /><br />The Committee’s mandate includes determining whether the decisions taken in these files and the processes adopted were in violation of the Acts/Rules and the constitutional scheme for governance of Government National Capital Territory of Delhi.<br /><br />It will also determine, within six weeks, whether such violations were wrong, illegal and deliberate acts of omissions/commissions, said a Raj Niwas statement.<br /><br />The Committee comprises former CAG V K Shunglu, former Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami and ex-Chief Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar.<br /><br />The panel was formed a day after the LG shifted two heads of departments – PWD and Health - hand- picked by the AAP government for its ambitious projects to build new classrooms and mohalla clinic.<br /><br />Soon after the High Court judgment, the LG asked heads of departments to review instances where his approval was not taken.<br /><br />The Committee has been asked to suggest "appropriate administrative/criminal/civil action as well as action for recovery of financial loss to the government exchequer, if any, by such wrong decisions against the public functionaries /officers/individuals concerned".<br /><br />The committee will recommend the course of action to be taken on each of the files/proposals including whether the decisions can or cannot be regularised by the LG, said Jung's office.<br /><br />The panel will give submit its interim reports before the final report and outline the administrative, legal and financial repercussions of the regularisation/non-regularisation of the decisions.<br /></p>
