Delay in completion of preliminary verification
18/02/2019
Despite lapse of over three months, State Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has failed to complete preliminary verification into the much-publicized fraud in the Group Health Insurance Policy for the Government employees and pensioners, which was brought to the fore by none else than the Governor of the State Satya Pal Malik. The revelations about the fraud in the Group Health Insurance Policy were made by the Governor in an interview on October 24, 2018 wherein he had also announced scrapping of the policy for the Government employees and pensioners with Anil Ambani's Reliance General Insurance. Within two days of the revelations by the Governor, the matter was referred to the State Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for investigation into the irregularities and identification of the officers responsible for the fraud. However, despite lapse of over three months the Anti-Corruption Bureau has not completed the preliminary verification into the fraud, Officers assigned the task by the Headquarters of the Anti-Corruption Bureau have not made any major headway in the verification till date.
The delay in completion of preliminary verification is notwithstanding the fact that entire record pertaining to the scrapped Group Health Insurance Policy is available with the Finance Department, which was responsible for implementation of the Policy and fraud was referred to the Anti-Corruption Bureau on the instructions of the Governor there were no chances of denying the record for the verification purpose. It is a matter of concern that while State Administrative Council has come up with new Health Insurance Scheme for the Government employees and pensioners, the verification into the scrapped one has not reached the logical conclusion during the past over three months. Each and every Government employee and pensioner as well as people of the State are anxiously waiting for the outcome of the preliminary verification especially when the startling revelations about the fraud were made by none else than the Governor and the employees and pensioners, who faced inconvenience due to scrapping of earlier policy, want the officers involved in the fraud be exposed and punished for conniving with the company for their personal benefits".
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