Summary:
Recently, TOI had exposed how rules were flouted in disbursal of grants.On September 22, TOI had exposed violation of rules in disbursal of grants. Out of this, Choudhary distributed Rs67 crore grants.Of the Rs67 crore, Rs36 crore (53.73%) was directly distributed to divisional forest officers (DFOs) bypassing chief conservators (CCFs) and conservators of forests (CFs). Nagpur: The state government has found gross violations in disbursal of funds by principal chief conservator of forests (PCCF), social forestry department (SFD), Pune, Anurag Choudhary.According to papers in possession of TOI, Rs98 crore grants were distributed to PCCF (SFD) by head of forest force (HoFF) during 2018-19. “Had it been a lower field staff, he/she would have been punished for misappropriation of even Rs1,000,” he said. This was in gross violation of government orders issued on November 16, 2017, regarding allotment of grants..