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Imphal, July 15: The President of MU Non Teaching Staff Association (MUSA) has alleged in an open letter to the VC that that three staff, Jibankumar,DFO, Ksh Basanta Singh, AFO and N. Tejendro Singh, Jr. Asstt, Contract employee were allegedly involved in corrupt practices. It was stated that they purchased furniture and stationery materials from unapproved dealers. They purchase through a middle man Rame who purchase it from big dealers and sell it to the University . The middle man is
The Contract employee N.Tejendro Singh, has been entrusted works that are not supposed for his responsibility only because his practices. All the important keys of the accounts II section are under the custody of this contract employee. He never attend the office in time thereby causing inconveniences to the other staff. He collects Cash memo and filled up in the office room in front of his seniors without any hesitation.
The mode of payment of cost of stationery and furniture is that they make payment piece by piece as DFO is authorized to sanction Rs 30,000/- at a time and even when there is a requirement of more than Rs 30,000/- say Rs 2,00,000/- they make payment of the amount bit by bit say 28,000/-, Rs 25,000, Rs 20,000/- and so on so that the higher authority may be avoided for making payment. This is against the General Financial Rule(GFR).
Purchased stationery materials is kept in a separate room and N. Tejendro Singh has been keeping the keys of the new store room .
They also allegedly opened new files in connection with purchase of stationery and furniture which is absolutely not necessary in normal condition. And they maintain the files by themselves, new seal was prepared in the name of AFO replacing the one being used by the store keeper. Blank cash memo collected by N. Tejendro Singh and filled up in the office in front of his seniors and the new seal and stock registers being under the custody of AFO and N. Tejendro Singh and not with the store keeper.
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