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Baramati taluka, home town of Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, which leads in several schemes has seen the maximum number of employees who will have to do without one-month's salary. According to the district collectorate officials 1,518 employees from Baramati have figured in the list followed by Junnar taluka with 1,284 employees.
A showcause notice has been issued by the Zilla Parishad administration seeking a clarification within eight days from the employees as to why their residences don't have the necessary toilet blocks. The notice will be implemented by the block development officer of the Panchayat samitis.
Dalvi has also sought a written assurance that the employees will build toilet blocks within a month. "Only after they build the block will they receive the salary," said a senior collectorate official. Until then the salary will be withheld and the house rent allowance too will be recovered from the employees.
The state Government had issued an ordinance on June 8, 2006 in this regard however it as not implemented. The Zilla Parishad administration, jointly with the police and revenue departments, had started to effectively implement the Sant Gadgebaba Swachata Nirmal Grama and Mahatma Gandhi dispute free village campaigns with the Zilla Parishad Chief Executive officer Shyam Vardhane and Rural SP Ravindra Kadam conducting taluka meetings.
An employee under condition of anonymity told this newspaper, that he had some family problems in his house due to which he could not build the block. "With the salary withheld it will get more difficult. I will have to borrow money and build it,"he said.
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I do not know details of this ordinance but surely the Dr. Anbumani Ramdoss should follow it up and implement it like he did for cigarette smoking. I live in a village after retirement and I cry hoarse telling people not to use the river (Tamiraparani) bed as toilet and I high light to them the fact that the government',s subsidy to build the toilet, but people just do not listen.
What were they doing all these days - doing sandas in the street.