RE: Off topic4 Apr 2022 01:38
How dirty they are. ???????????? we will soon have new board of GPCB
https://firstindia.co.in/news/india/gpcb-has-become-a-den-of-corruption
New Delhi: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) is the chief regulator for implementation of environmental protection and pollution control laws in state.
The CMO official said that senior IAS officer Sanjiv Kumar, who is holding the charge of chairman of the body, has requested govt to relieve him of the additional charge as he does not want to continue in the GPCB.
Sanjiv Kumar is a 1998 batch IAS officer and is currently posted as Managing Director of GSPC and Gujarat Gas and has been given the additional charge of chairman, GPCB.
In the next round of bureaucratic reshuffle, the government is elected to replace Sanjiv Kumar with another senior official to be in charge chairman of GPCB.
“The government will have to take strong actions against the officials of the GPCB as the corruption has become deep rooted with most of the top officials receive regular haftas from the industries,” another official posted in a senior position said.
According to sources, previous administration of Vijay Rupani had apparently turned blind towards malpractices in the statutory body.
The detailed inputs received in the CMO has details about some middlemen who broker deals between the GPCB officials and industries, who flout environmental norms, discharge untreated effluents directly into rivers or water bodies and don’t follow the rules prescribed under the laws and regulations.
In Board, chairman has limited powers while member secy is powerful officer. In Gujarat, member secy of pollution control board is considered most powerful as state being one of the most industrialized one where the GPCB has huge powers over industries.