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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Maharashtra's farm loan waiver claims first victim: Senior bureaucrat VK Gautam sent on leave -Sanjay Sawant

Maharashtra's farm loan waiver claims first victim: Senior bureaucrat VK Gautam sent on leave -Sanjay Sawant

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published Published on Nov 22, 2017   modified Modified on Nov 22, 2017
-Firstpost.com

The bungling over the Maharashtra government's farm loan waiver scheme claimed its first victim on Monday, according to exclusive information with Firstpost.

VK Gautam, Principal Secretary (Information Technology) has been sent on leave after criticism over the implementation of the scheme.

Technical errors have plagued the scheme since its roll out, with farmers suffering because of glitches ranging from duplication of names in lists to incorrect Aadhaar details.

VK Gautam applied for 15-day leave on Friday, and it was approved by the General Administration Department on Monday, sources said.

SVR Srinivas, who is in charge of the Dharavi Redevelopment Project, took over as additional charge as Principal Secretary (Information Technology).

Gautam had been making frantic efforts to rectify the errors in the disbursal of the farm loan waiver amounts over the past few days. A senior IAS officer said Gautam was staying in his MahaOnline office at Lower Parel in south Mumbai around the clock and had not been home for three days.

When contacted, Gautam said, "I have gone to my native place to see my ailing father, who is 93 years old."

The waiver was announced by the Maharashtra government five months ago.

But there has been inaction on the part of different agencies—including district cooperative central and nationalised banks, the government's information technology department, cooperation department—due to which confusion and uncertainty over the scheme persists.

Further, the state has not released the details of banks, districts and district-wise breakdown of farmers' names.

The confusion over the implementation of the scheme prompted the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to seek a report from senior bureaucrats on the fiasco, as Firstpost reported on 27 October.

Gautam was one of the officers from whom an explanation was sought, apart from the additional chief secretary (agriculture) and additional chief secretary (co-operation).

Opposition parties lambasted the Maharashtra government, contending that if the government had released the waiver money to banks without insisting on verification of beneficiary accounts with Aadhaar numbers, the disbursement would have been completed faster.

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Firstpost.com, 21 November, 2017, http://www.firstpost.com/india/maharashtras-bungled-farm-loan-waiver-claims-first-victim-senior-it-bureaucrat-vk-gautam-sent-on-forced-leave-4219439.html


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