CIC asks Delhi govt to probe DTC drivers scam
1 March 2014 5:22 AM IST
The case relates to fitness certification given to the drivers while appointing them.
The file produced before information commissioner M Sridhar Acharyulu by Delhi Transport Corporation revealed serious irregularities in declaration of bus drivers as fit by an eye centre.
‘As many as 91 out of the 99 candidates declared medically unfit by the DTC medical board were, subsequently, declared fit by the Guru Nanak Eye Centre. When an independent medical board was constituted by Health Department of GNCT Delhi, all the 91 candidates were found unfit again,’ Acharyulu noted in his order.
He said on 11 September, 2013 chairman cum managing director of DTC Rajeev Verma had written to Delhi Health Secretary SCL Das seeking intervention for fixing responsibility on the erring persons leading to appointment of unfit drivers in the Corporation.
Quoting from the letter, Acharyulu said CMD had mentioned that one of the drivers, who was declared medically fit by the Centre, had committed a major accident. When the driver was subjected to medical examination, he was found to be unfit by the DTC medical board, thereby necessitating a relook into the medical examination of such drivers, examined by the centre.
The file produced before information commissioner M Sridhar Acharyulu by Delhi Transport Corporation revealed serious irregularities in declaration of bus drivers as fit by an eye centre.
‘As many as 91 out of the 99 candidates declared medically unfit by the DTC medical board were, subsequently, declared fit by the Guru Nanak Eye Centre. When an independent medical board was constituted by Health Department of GNCT Delhi, all the 91 candidates were found unfit again,’ Acharyulu noted in his order.
He said on 11 September, 2013 chairman cum managing director of DTC Rajeev Verma had written to Delhi Health Secretary SCL Das seeking intervention for fixing responsibility on the erring persons leading to appointment of unfit drivers in the Corporation.
Quoting from the letter, Acharyulu said CMD had mentioned that one of the drivers, who was declared medically fit by the Centre, had committed a major accident. When the driver was subjected to medical examination, he was found to be unfit by the DTC medical board, thereby necessitating a relook into the medical examination of such drivers, examined by the centre.
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