Thanamandi Admin fails to provide services to people Absenteeism, corruption in most offices derailed public service delivery

RAJESH TANDON

THANAMANDI, Mar 4: The administration of Thanamandi has virtually failed to provide public services to the people due to deep rooted corruption and absenteeism among the senior officials, which has derailed entire functioning of the official machinery.
Sources told Early Times that people coming from remote areas had to face disappointment, when they find no officials present in their offices.
Health facility in Thanamandi is in deplorable condition, the health centres don’t provide treatment and resort to referral system by referring patients to GMC Rajouri.
Heath centres are running in shortage of essential medicines, even the medicines which are prescribed by the doctors are not available in the hospital and patients had to purchase them from market, which expose the local administration, they said.
They further said that official vehicles are used for personal purpose by the officers in violation of rules. Even the transport facility is not available in various remote areas thereby people had to travel on foot. “Despite knowing the fact that majority of population rely on agriculture and their livestock but no animal camp has been organized to provide benefit to poor villagers,” they said. Many works under MGNAREGA were carried out in contravention of norms, huge amount of embezzlement is suspected. Locals appealed to LG for his intervention and demanded that action be taken against erring officials. Despite repeated calls, SDM Thanmandi didn’t pick phone for his comments.