Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 13: To take immediate cognizance of the Audit and Inspection Report submitted by the Finance Department with the observation of around 2300 employees of the Health Department as fictitious, Director Health Services has constituted teams at district and divisional level.
The Director said that the teams at district level headed by concerned Chief Medical Officer have been asked to scrutinize/examine the documents of the employees shown as fictitious by the Finance Department (Audit an Inspection Report) and submit their findings/report to the two teams constituted at divisional level, one headed by Deputy Director Health Services (Headquarter), Kashmir and another by Deputy Director Health Services (Schemes), Kashmir by or before 19th of this month, who will examine the findings/reports enabling the Department to exonerate such employees who stand appointed by the competent authorities but inadvertently shown as fictitious.
The Director said that the Department has already released the budget in the first week of December last year for all the employees to the concerned Drawing and Disbursing Officers for release of their salary. He said the salary of only those employees who figure in the list submitted by the Directorate of Audit and Inspection has been kept withheld by their Drawing and Disbursing Officers and will be released after the teams constituted for the purpose submit their findings/report.
The Director said that a meeting was also convened with the stakeholders of Health and Family Welfare Confederation/ Coordination Committee who were taken on board and have been assured that the matter will be resolved on war footing basis.