Nitish cracks down on two IAS officers over boat tragedy incident, transfers them
Harjot Kaur, a 1992 batch IAS officer and Uma Shankar Prasad, 2006 batch IAS officer were found guilty by the probe committee that was set up by Nitish Kumar soon after the tragic incident happened.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today cracked down on two senior IAS officers, Principal Secretary of the Tourism department, Harjot Kaur and Uma Shankar Prasad, Managing Director of Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation in connection with the boat tragedy incident in which 25 people lost their lives.
Harjot Kaur, a 1992 batch IAS officer and Uma Shankar Prasad, 2006 batch IAS officer were found guilty by the probe committee that was set up by Nitish Kumar soon after the tragic incident happened. Pratyaya Amrit, Principal Secretary of Disaster Management department and Patna DIG, Shalin were part of this two member probe team which after conducting the investigation had submitted a detailed report to the state govt last week.
The boat which capsized in the Ganga was carrying people who were returning to NIT ghat after participating in the kite festival which was organised across the river on the occasion of Makar Sankranti. The festival was organized by the Tourism department and the probe report found that adequate arrangement were not made by the department for the event which included lack of adequate number of boats to ferry people.
The report said that because of lack of adequate number of boats for the festival, the boat which capsized was overloaded leading to the incident.
A notification in this regard has been issued by the General administration department of the state govt.
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