Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The government’s haste in removing officials after the Sagar incident, in which nine children died in a house collapse on Sunday, was evident after Sagar SP Abhishek Tiwari was removed, blaming him for it.
Nevertheless, Tiwari had left for the USA for a fortnight. In the absence of Tiwari, ASP Sanjeev Uike was holding the charge, but the government removed Tiwari.
He got his leave approved by the Home Ministry and is on leave from July 27 to August 8.
He is on US trip with his family with the government’s permission, but the government did not consider this aspect before issuing order for his removal.
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Before the Lok Sabha election, Tiwari was sent on deputation to the Central Government’s National Technical Research Organisation.
He was not relieved because of the Lok Sabha election. By removing him for the incident which he had nothing to do with, the government has unnecessarily blamed him.
According to IG (Sagar division), Pramod Verma, Abhishek Tiwar has gone abroad, taking leave. Leader of Opposition Umang Singh also objected to the way Tiwari was removed. “How can an officer who has gone abroad be blamed for an incident?” Singhar said.
Three arrested
Sagar police have registered cases against three persons and have arrested all three. Police said those arrested are the two organisers of the religious programme which the children were attending and the owner of the house whose wall collapsed, leading to the tragedy.
Nine children were killed and two others injured after a wall of a dilapidated house collapsed in Shahpur locality of Sagar district on Sunday. The incident took place between 8.30 am and 9 am near the campus of a temple during a religious programme.
Shahpur police informed that a case has been registered against the organiser Shiv Patel and Sanjiv Patel, and the owner of the dilapidated house Mulu Kushwah.
Officials instructed to survey dilapidated school buildings, take immediate action where required
After children's deaths in wall collapse incident that occurred in in Satna and Sagar, Bhopal district collector Kaushalendra Vikram Singh asked district education officer to undertake survey of dilapidated school buildings. The collector was addressing the Time Line meeting here on Monday.
Collector also instructed to share information with area SDMs for the strategy. 'Wherever there is need to shift students, immediate action should be taken,' he said.
The engineers of PWD, IES, Bhopal Municipal Corporation have been told to carry out survey and identify dilapidated buildings of rural and urban area. Four children died in Satna and nine in Sagar as wall collapsed near them.
Besides, instruction was given to speed up the disposal rate under revenue mega drive. The pending cases of division, mutation, mapping need to be dispose of, collector told officials.
Surprise inspection
Sports minister Vishvas Sarang inspected schools buildings on Monday. Minister assured of renovation of all government schools buildings in Narela Assembly constituency, which he represents. He also visited school in Semera in his constituency, where waterlogging is a problem.
