Five 'absent' HUDA officials suspended

GURGAON: In a crackdown on employees found absent at work during official working hours, A K Singh, the chief administrator of the Haryana Urban Development Authority, has suspended five officials for not being present in office at 9.30 am.
The chief administrator's office issued orders on November 17, in which junior engineer Jaswant Singh of Gurgaon's estate office-2, peon Chotu Ram and clerk Jeet Ram of executive engineer's office in Hisar's Division-1, junior engineer Chunni Lal of executive engineer's office in Ambala and peon Raj Kumar of Division-3 in Faridabad have been suspended indefinitely.According to HUDA administrator Ashok Sanghwan, the officials have been suspended owing to their repeated absence from work during office hours, especially during surprise checks.
Of the five suspended officials, Jaswant Singh was posted in Estate Office-2 in Gurgaon as a junior engineer. Chotu Ram and Jeet Ram, were posted at the executive engineer's office in Division-1 in Hisar. Junior Engineer Chunni Lal was posted in the executive engineer's office in Ambala and Raj Kumar was posted in Division-3 in Faridabad.
However, according to the suspension order (a copy of which is with TOI), the suspended officials will be eligible for drawing subsistence allowance and will be under the Establishment Branch at the HUDA headquarters in Panchkula during the period of their suspension.