Oust headmaster minister,Lokayukta tells UP govt

Yadav is the sixth minister indicted by the Lokayukta in the last one year

In another setback to the Mayawati government,Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta N K Mehrotra on Wednesday upheld the charges of corruption against Small-Scale Industries Minister Chandradev Ram Yadav,recommended his removal and also ordered recovery,with interest,of the money he had drawn as headmaster of a school in Azamgarh district.

Yadav is the sixth minister indicted by the Lokayukta in the last one year. He had confessed before the Lokayukta last week that he was headmaster of one school and manager of another in his hometown Azamgarh,in spite of holding the constitutional post of a minister. Also,he had obtained 10 arms licences in the name of his family members when rules allowed only three.

The Lokayukta sent his report,containing nine recommendations to the Chief Minister and asked for an action taken report in six weeks. He has recommended investigation to fix responsibility on officials for helping the minister in violation of rules.

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Mehrotra said the number of students and teachers at his Kashi Madhyamik Vidyalaya in Hajipur village should be verified,any new posts which Yadav may have created as headmaster should be cancelled,and responsibility should be fixed on officials in the Basic Education Department who allowed the minister to draw the salary of a headmaster.

Further,he recommended that bank accounts of teachers of the Kashi Vidya Mandir,a school of which Yadav was found to be the manager,should be opened immediately and,until the accounts were opened,the Department of Social Welfare should stop the schools grant.

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