Chief Secretary to find officers behind compensation payment delay

By S A Ishaqui

Hyderabad, June 7: The Hyderabad High Court has ordered the CS to conduct an enquiry and identify the officers responsible for not paying compensation to a woman even after a decade.

The panchayat raj department had acquired 51 cents of land belonging to Sokra Begum, a resident Bhanumukkala village in Kurnool, for constructing a road in 2003. She moved the court after the authorities failed to pay her compensation.

After the court order, the panchayat raj department passed an order fixing Rs 4,92,700 as compensation. When Sokra Begum still failed to receive the compensation, she moved the HC. The panchayat raj authorities said the revenue officials had not furnished the details of the account in which the amount was to be credited. 

The revenue officials, however, said the enquiry is yet to be completed. The judge demanded to know how the panchayat raj authorities arrived at a figure of compensation without conducting the enquiry.

He then directed Chief Secretary I.V.R. Krishna Rao to conduct an enquiry and file a report before next Friday.

Meanwhile, the Hyderabad high court on Friday directed the counsel for panchayat raj department to inform it of the government stand on a plea seeking to revise the reservations to the posts of Zilla Praja Parishad chairman and Mandal Praja Parishad president in Khammam by taking into consideration the 10 districts of Telangana state as a unit.

Justice Ramesh Ranganathan was dealing with the petition by ZPTC member B. Vijaygandhi and MPTC member K. Rosi Reddy of Burgampahad mandal, who were seeking a stay of elections to the posts of ZPP chairman and MPP president till the government rework the reservations.

MeanwhilAn NGO has moved the HC seeking directions to the Telangana government to implement a ban on begging and to set up a committee to protect the constitutional and human rights of the beggars.