Alleged misappropriation of funds in Khasi Heritage Village project
SHILLONG: The KHADC Executive Committee (EC) has been forced to reconstitute a one-man inquiry committee headed by a retired PWD official to probe into alleged anomalies in the expenditures incurred in the Khasi Heritage Village project at Mawphlang after the PWD Executive Engineer, who was assigned the task, expressed his inability to continue with the job.
Informing this here on Thursday, KHADC Deputy CEM in charge of Arts and Culture, Teinwell Dkhar, said, “I had asked the PWD Executive Engineer to submit his report since I wanted to table it in the Winter Session of the Council. But to my surprise he submitted a letter to me with the request that he should be relieved from the job.” “In his letter the Executive Engineer claimed that he had not got permission from his office to continue as head of the inquiry committee,” Dkhar added.
The Deputy CEM further said that the Executive Engineer had been given two weeks to complete the inquiry. “However, he sought an extension of another two weeks. Despite the extension, he never submitted the report and now he has quit the inquiry,” Deputy CEM said.
Dkhar also claimed that the news inquiry head has been asked to complete his job at the earliest.
The former EC under Ardent Miller Basaiawmoit had ordered the inquiry after doubts were expressed from certain quarters on the manner funds were utilized in the Khasi Heritage Village project at Sacred Groves, Mawphlang.