Official showcaused after CM spends uneasy night with mosquitoes

Official showcaused after CM spends uneasy night with mosquitoes

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Bhopal:20.02.2021

A PWD executive engineer has been showcaused after mosquitoes and an overflowing water tank gave chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan a sleepless night at a circuit house during his visit to Sidhi to meet families of those killed in the bus tragedy.

The notice, issued by Rewa divisional commissioner Rajesh Kumar Jain, asks Davendra Kumar Singh to explain why two years’ salary increment shouldn’t be withheld.

When TOI contacted Jain, he initially denied having taken any action against the engineer, but when told that his notice was already doing the rounds on social media, he said: “The letter has been written but (there’s) no action so far.”

Chouhan had on Wednesday met families who lost their loved ones in the bus accident in Banganga canal. He went village to village to reach out to the bereaved and said all possible relief would be provided by the government.

After a long and tiring day, the CM decided to stay for the night in Sidhi. Room number 1 of the circuit house was opened for him. Officials learnt the next morning that the CM spent an uncomfortable night. Apart from the swarms of mosquitoes, someone forgot to switch off the pump and the tank kept overflowing.

Caretakers tried to convince officers that mosquitoes had got in as the room remained open for hours due to a steady stream of visitors. Night halt was not on the CM’s schedule, so the rooms were not prepared, say sources.

This isn’t the first time that mosquitoes landed officials in trouble. In 2015, two engineers in Shivpuri were suspended by the then animal husbandry minister Kusum Mehedele over defunct air-conditioners and mosquito bites at the circuit house.