<p>The Maharashtra government has suspended a top official for "negligence and irresponsible conduct" after farmers received a video game on their mobile phones instead of information about the loan waiver.</p>.<p>The official, Satish Soni, is the commissioner of cooperation and also registrar of cooperative societies.</p>.<p>The decision was taken after it was found Soni had tampered with video tutorial sent to farmers regarding the Mahatma Jyotirao Phule loan waiver scheme, announced by the Shiv Sena-led government last year, an official statement said here on Wednesday.</p>.<p>Instead of the video tutorial which was sent out to farmers by the agriculture department, candy crush video game opened on their mobile phones, it said.</p>.<p>The statement said an investigation revealed Soni had prepared two letters dated January 7, 2020, to be sent to the agriculture commissioner with a URL link of the video.</p>.<p>Accordingly, the agriculture department asked its IT cell to further process it, but URL (web address) turned out to be wrong, the statement said.</p>.<p>On the same day, Soni sent another letter with the correct URL. But there was no mention of the earlier letter having wrong URL, it said.</p>.<p>Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is the address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.</p>.<p>The first email URL contained candy crush video game and not information about the farm loan waiver scheme, the statement said.</p>.<p>The statement said due to Soni's "negligence and irresponsible conduct", there was interruption in execution of the government's ambitious scheme.</p>.<p>"It needs to be found out if the action was unintentional or deliberate and hence he is suspended with immediate effect," it added. </p>
<p>The Maharashtra government has suspended a top official for "negligence and irresponsible conduct" after farmers received a video game on their mobile phones instead of information about the loan waiver.</p>.<p>The official, Satish Soni, is the commissioner of cooperation and also registrar of cooperative societies.</p>.<p>The decision was taken after it was found Soni had tampered with video tutorial sent to farmers regarding the Mahatma Jyotirao Phule loan waiver scheme, announced by the Shiv Sena-led government last year, an official statement said here on Wednesday.</p>.<p>Instead of the video tutorial which was sent out to farmers by the agriculture department, candy crush video game opened on their mobile phones, it said.</p>.<p>The statement said an investigation revealed Soni had prepared two letters dated January 7, 2020, to be sent to the agriculture commissioner with a URL link of the video.</p>.<p>Accordingly, the agriculture department asked its IT cell to further process it, but URL (web address) turned out to be wrong, the statement said.</p>.<p>On the same day, Soni sent another letter with the correct URL. But there was no mention of the earlier letter having wrong URL, it said.</p>.<p>Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is the address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.</p>.<p>The first email URL contained candy crush video game and not information about the farm loan waiver scheme, the statement said.</p>.<p>The statement said due to Soni's "negligence and irresponsible conduct", there was interruption in execution of the government's ambitious scheme.</p>.<p>"It needs to be found out if the action was unintentional or deliberate and hence he is suspended with immediate effect," it added. </p>