Lok Sabha Question No. 639 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-12-19
Subject: Central Public Work Department
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: RAM TAHAL CHOUDHARY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 639 TO BE ANSWERED ON 19 th  DECEMBER, 2017

## CENTRAL PUBLIC WORK DEPARTMENT

No. 639              SHRI RAM TAHAL CHOUDHARY:

Will the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Central Public Works Department is not achieving its objectives due to corrupt practices;
- (b) if so, the reaction of the Government thereto;
- (c)  the  number  of  officers  found  guilty  following  the  investigations  / reviews  conducted  by  the  Government  in  the  functioning  of  Central Public Works Department (CPWD) during the last three years along with the names of such officers; and
- (d) the steps taken by the Government to check corruption in CPWD?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS (SHRI HARDEEP SINGH PURI)

(a)  &  (b)    :  The  objectives  of  the  Central  Public  Works  Department (CPWD)  of  creating  and  maintaining  infrastructure  assets  of  the Government and other bodies are being achieved by carrying out works in  a  competitive  and  transparent  manner  with  sound  engineering practices. Appropriate mechanisms exist in the department to detect and deal with corrupt practices.

(c): The  list  of  officers  against  whom  major,  minor  penalty proceedings have been initiated based on investigations and Criminal / CBI prosecution cases during the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 are given in the statement at Annexure-A, Annexure-B and Annexure-C.

(d) :  The steps taken by the CPWD to check corruption include carrying out regular / surprise inspections, leveraging technology for transparency e.g. e-payment, e-tendering, e-procurement,  e-sewa kendras  and  e-project  management,  examination  of  pending  audit paras,  examination of Annual Property Returns, systemic improvement in Manual Provisions and Procedures, conducting training / awareness programmes for CPWD officers as part of preventive vigilance measures etc.

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Statement referred to in reply to Part (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 639 for answer on 19.12.2017.

ANNEXURE 'A'

## Major Penalty Proceedings

| 2015                  | 2015                    | 2016   | 2016                       | 2017   | 2017                       | 2017   | 2017                                   | 2017   | 2017                         |
|-----------------------|-------------------------|--------|----------------------------|--------|----------------------------|--------|----------------------------------------|--------|------------------------------|
| S. No.                | Name & Designation      | S. No. | Name & Designation         | S. No. | Name & Designation         | S. No. | Name & Designation                     | S. No. | Name & Designation           |
| 1                     | C.P. Gupta,AE(C)        | 1      | Ravindra Pandey,AE(C)      | 1      | Rajendra Singh, AD(Hort)   | 26     | Jayanta Kumar Manna,AE(C)              | 51     | Indra Bhan Singh,AE(C)       |
|                       | Sanjib Sengupta,SA      | 2      | Vinod Kumar,AE(C)          | 2      | Sherin A Sarasam,UDC       | 27     | Ramesh Gyanidas Ninawe,                | 52     | Shok Haran Pandey,JE(C)      |
| 3                     | Shyam Lal Asnani,AE(C)  | 3      | Ram Mohan Niranjan, EE(C)  | 3      | Virender Singh Chankot,AAO | 28     | Ggovind Prasad                         | 53     | Rajendra Prasad, Dy.Dir(Hor) |
| 4 Ram Dua             | Parkash ,UDC            | 4      | Jiwan Kumar Gupta,AE(C)    | 4      | Ravi Daleharan,AA O        | 29     | Vaish,AE(C) Suresh Chandra Agrawal,AE( | 54     | Shivom Jauhari,AE(C)         |
| Narendra Pathak,JE(C) | Kumar                   | 5      | Pintu Sanyal,AE(C)         | 5      | Ramawatar Meena,JE(C)      | 30     | C) MD. Naushad Alam,JE(C)              | 55     | Shyam Mohan,JE(C)            |
| 5 6                   | Moti Chand Sharma,AE(E) | 6      | Mahesh Chandra Yadav,EE(C) | 6      | Komal Kumar,AE(C)          | 31     | Sh. Jai Kishan Meena ,AAO              | 56     | Arun Kumar,JE(C)             |

| 7                           |   M.K. Gupta,JE(C) | 7                                         |   Vinaya Kumar Dube,AE(C) | 7                          |   Devendra Kumar,JE(C) | 32                              |   Om Prakash Sharma, EE(C) | 57                        | Murahu Prasad,EE(C)   |
|-----------------------------|--------------------|-------------------------------------------|---------------------------|----------------------------|------------------------|---------------------------------|----------------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------|
| Karri Paddi Reddy,AE(C)     |                  8 | Sudhir Chand Gupta,AE(C)                  |                         8 | Satya Pal Singh,JE(C)      |                     33 | Anil Kumar Makkar, EE(C)        |                         58 | Pramod Kumar,EE(C)        | 8                     |
| 9 Sanjay Kumar,JE(E)        |                  9 | Veera Buddha Buli Veera Siva Prasad,EE(C) |                         9 | Toufique Ahmed,JE(C)       |                     34 | Jayanta Kumar Manna,AE(C)       |                         59 | Mahendra Ram,EE(C)        |                       |
| 10 Rajib Kumar Behera,JE(C) |                 10 | Dinesh Sharma,JE(E)                       |                        10 | Ram Niwas Kumawat, JE(C)   |                     35 | Ketan Shriramji Mahajan, JE(C)  |                         60 | Prakash Chand Meena,EE(C) |                       |
| 11 K.K. Singh,UDC           |                 11 | Girja Shankar Pant,SE(C)                  |                        11 | R.M. Prajapati, EE(E)      |                     36 | Navrang Ramkisan Katwale, EE(C) |                         61 | Om Prakash Sharma,EE(C)   |                       |
| 12 Tejinder Singh,DDG       |                 12 | Swapan Kumar Saha,EE(C)                   |                        12 | Sh. Shriniwas Meena ,EE(C) |                     37 | Anjeeta Jagdish Sharma, JE(C)   |                         62 | Dharambir Singh,EE(C)     |                       |
| M. Bose,EE(C)               |                 13 | Neelam Prasada Rao,AE(C)                  |                        13 | Sh. Gopal Lal Goyal ,EE(C) |                     38 | Navrang Ramkisan Katwale, EE(C) |                         63 | Paramjit Singh,AE(C)      | 13                    |
| Lakhpati Pandey,AE(E)       |                 14 | V.P. Singh,EE(C)                          |                        14 | Ram Gopal Meena,EE(C)      |                     39 | Pardeep Kumar Gupta,EE(E)       |                         64 | Ravinesh Kumar,EE(C)      | 14                    |
| 15 Ajay Sancha,AE(C)        |                 15 | Satish Kumar,AE(C)                        |                        15 | Dhiraj Kumar,SE(C)         |                     40 | Koteswara Rao Bhukya ,Aao       |                         65 | Vijay Kumar,AE(C)         |                       |

|                                 | Prem Pal Singh,EE(C)   | 16                         |   Roop Narain,EE(C) | 16                      |   Shree Pal Singh,EE(C) | 41                          | Seetharama Kumar Bodepudi, UDC   | 66                        |   16 Komal Kumar,AE(C) |
|---------------------------------|------------------------|----------------------------|---------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|---------------------------|------------------------|
| K. Kesavan,AE(C)                | 17                     | Swapan Kumar Saha,EE(C)    |                  17 | Rakesh Sharma, AE(C)    |                      42 | Ram Rattan Dahiya,EE(C)     | 67                               | Susen Saha,AE(E)          |                     17 |
| Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, AE(C) | 18                     | Ajoy Mazumdar, AE(C)       |                  18 | Manoj Saini,JE(C)       |                      43 | Ram Gopal Meena,EE(C)       | 68                               | Dharam Singh Malik,EE(C)  |                     18 |
| Chandrika Prasad,EE(C)          | 19                     | Selvaraju Rajasekar, SE(C) |                  19 | Devendra Kumar,EE(E)    |                      44 | Kuldeep Krishan Dhar,AE(C)  | 69                               | Naveen Kumar Bansal,SE(C) |                     19 |
| Jokhan Prasad,AE(C)             | 20                     | Pintu Sanyal,AE(C)         |                  20 | Rajpal Pandwal, EE(E)   |                      45 | Hardeep Singh,AE(C)         | 70                               | Arvind Yadav,AE(C)        |                     20 |
| Sher Singh,EE(C)                | 21                     | P.T.Jayan, AAO             |                  21 | Santosh Kumar, DIR(HOR) |                      46 | Tanveer Ahmad Kasana, AE(C) | 71                               | Bhagwan Rai,AE(C)         |                     21 |
| Daljit Singh Kapur,Addl.DG      | 22                     | Degavath Prakash, JE(C)    |                  22 | Ram Rattan Dahiya,EE(C) |                      47 | Gopal Lal Goyal,EE(C)       | 72                               | Satish Kumar Chawla,EE(C) |                     22 |
| Manjit Singh,EE(C)              |                        |                            |                  23 | Navin Kumar Garg,CE(C)  |                      48 | Prem Singh Meena,JE(C)      | 73                               | S.S.Devarayan, AE(C)      |                     23 |
| Shalendera Kumar Yadav,JE(C)    |                        |                            |                  24 | Hari Lal Bharti,AE(C)   |                      49 | Hardeep Singh ,AE(C)        |                                  |                           |                     24 |
| Manjit Singh, EE(C)             |                        |                            |                  25 | Hariram, EE(C)          |                      50 | Irshad Ahamad, JE(C)        |                                  |                           |                     25 |

## Minor Penalty Proceedings

| 2015 Total Number : 32   | 2015 Total Number : 32           | 2015 Total Number : 32   | 2015 Total Number : 32      | 2016   | 2016                       | 2017 Total number 51   | 2017 Total number 51          | 2017 Total number 51   | 2017 Total number 51         |
|--------------------------|----------------------------------|--------------------------|-----------------------------|--------|----------------------------|------------------------|-------------------------------|------------------------|------------------------------|
| S. No.                   | Name & Designation               | S. No.                   |                             | S. No. | Name & Designation         | S. No.                 | Name & Designation            | S.No.                  | Name & Designation           |
| 1                        | Susruta Samanta, Section Officer | 27                       | Dharam Pal Saroj,AE(C)      | 1      | Rajiv Chandra,AAO          | 1                      | Manturti Venkat Narsiah,EE(C) | 26                     | Jyoti Bhatia,AE(E)           |
| 2                        | Archana Luthra,EE(E)             | 28                       | Vipin Kumar Gupta,JE(C)     | 2      | Jagroop Singh Sandhu,SE(C) | 2                      | Ram Naresh,EE(C)              | 27                     | Samar Bahadur,AE(E)          |
| 3                        | Naresh Kumar,Drafts man(E&M)     | 29                       | Surya Prakash Verma,AE(C)   | 3      | Rajesh Mittal,CE(C)        | 3                      | Ashokan K,AE(C)               | 28                     | Narender Singh Rawat,EE(E)   |
| 4                        | Ram Ekbal Prasad,Drafts man(E&M) | 30                       | G. Hanumantha raya,AE(C)    | 4      | Parmanad,SE(C)             | 4                      | Ketan Shriramji Mahajan,JE(C) | 29                     | Ramesh Gyanidas Ninawe,EE(C) |
| 5                        | N.K. Bakshi,Drafts man (E&M)     | 31                       | V.K. Ahuja,AE(E)            | 5      | Satish Chourasiya,AE(C)    | 5                      | EE (E), Gwalior CED,EE(E)     | 30                     | Ishwar Deen Yadav,EE(C)      |
| 6                        | R.S. Dahiya,AE(E)                | 32                       | Daljit Singh Kapur, Addl.DG | 6      | Shankar Lal,AE(C)          | 6                      | Laxman Singh Adhikari,EE(C)   | 31                     | Anil Kumar Pandey,SE(C)      |

## ANNEXURE 'B'

| 7   | Neel Kamal Sharma,AE(C)              |    |   7 | Papun Kumar Pradhan,JE(C)           | 7                               |   Pushpendra Singh Yadav,JE(C) 32 | Ramkishan Meena ,SE(E)         |
|-----|--------------------------------------|----|-----|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|     | Suresh Kumar,AE(C)                   | 8  |   8 | Mahesh Chandra Baser,AE(C)          | 8 Virendra Kumar Gupta,AE(P)(C) |                                33 | Hanuman Prasad Meena,CE(C)     |
| 9   | Gurinder Singh,AE(C)                 |    |   9 | S.C. Chauhan,EE(C)                  | 9 Prakash Rawat,EE(C)           |                                34 | Om Prakash Tiwari ,EE(C)       |
| 10  | Ashok Kumar Sharma,SE(C)             |    |  10 | Manoj Sureshrao Nagardhankar ,AE(E) | 10 Jokhan Prasad,AE(C)          |                                35 | Om Prakash Sharma,EE(C)        |
| 11  | Shailendra Kumar Meena,AE(C)         |    |  11 | A Raffi Mohammed,EE(C)              | 11 Anil Kumar Sharma,UDC        |                                36 | Chaman Lal Verma,AE(E)         |
| 12  | Manoj Kumar Mahobia, SE(C)           |    |  12 | Prabhakaran Praseedaman, EE(C)      | 12 Sanjay Kalra,JE(C)           |                                37 | Joydip Roy Barman,JE(E)        |
| 13  | Abhijit Kumar Ghosh, Section Officer |    |  13 | Malleswarapu Jagan Mohan Rao,JE(C)  | 13 Arun Kumar Jha ,CE(C)        |                                38 | Navrang Ramkisan Katwale,EE(C) |
| 14  | Sankar Dhar,OFF. SUPDT Gd. I         |    |  14 | Priya Brata Roy,AE(P)(E)            | 14 Kanheya Lal,LDC              |                                39 | Narendra Kumar Rampuria,AE(E)  |
| 15  | Niranjan Dowari,LDC                  |    |  15 | Devesh Chand,AE(C)                  | 15 Saju Sidharthan, ARCH        |                                40 | Rajesh kumar,JE(E)             |
| 16  | K.K. Singh,UDC                       |    |  16 | Sarnam Singh Yadav,JE(C)            | 16 Ved Prakash,AE(E)            |                                41 | Arvind Kumar,JE(E)             |
| 17  | Ajay Prakash Mathur,CE(C)            |    |  17 | Sh. Shri Chandra,AE(C)              | 17 Bhaskar Jyoti Paul,AE(E)     |                                42 | Ram Narayan Kureel,AE(E)       |

|    | Nelanutala N. V. Ravi Prasad,EE(C)   | 18   | 18   | Anisha Kumar,JE(C)            | 18   | Murahu Prasad,EE(C)       |   43 | Rajesh Kumar,AE(C)                    |
|----|--------------------------------------|------|------|-------------------------------|------|---------------------------|------|---------------------------------------|
| 19 | Yugraj Singh,UDC                     |      | 19   | Shyam Mohan,JE(C)             | 19   | Mahadev Paul ,AE(E)       |   44 | Virendra Kumar Verma,Senior Draftsman |
| 20 | K.U. Panicker, SE(C)                 |      | 20   | Shashi Kant Verma,AE(E)       | 20   | Ashok Kumar Rajdev,SE(C)  |   45 | Manoj Kasana, JE(C)                   |
| 21 | G. Dhanabal, EE(C)                   |      | 21   | Guru Dayal Singh,JE(E)        | 21   | Vijay kumar,AE(C)         |   46 | Bajrang Bali Yadav,JE(C)              |
| 22 | Mahendra Bharti,EE(C)                |      | 22   | Surendra Kumar Tripathi,EE(C) | 22   | Ram Kumar Naik,SE(C)      |   47 | Arun Kumar Goel,EE(E)                 |
| 23 | Ramesh Mahavir Prasad Gupta,AE(C)    |      | 23   | Shishir Bansal,SE(C)          | 23   | Raj Kumar Saraswat ,EE(C) |   48 | Mangat Ram,EE(E)                      |
| 24 | A.K. Ahuja,CE(E)                     |      | 24   | Sh. Kuldeep Singh,JE(E)       | 24   | Om Prakash Sharma,EE(C)   |   49 | Hridya Kumar Sinha,AE(C)              |
| 25 | Ram Swaroop,AAO                      |      | 25   | Rajiv Srivastav,AE(C)         | 25   | Ram Kumar,EE(E)           |   50 | Kamlesh ,UDC                          |
| 26 | Pravin Kashinath Nimje,AE(C)         |      |      |                               |      |                           |   51 | Rajiv Srivastav,AE(C)                 |

## ANNEXURE 'C'

## Criminal / CBI Prosecution cases

| 2015            | 2016            | 2017            |
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
| Total Number 06 | Total number 01 | Total number 01 |

|   S. No. | Name & Designation          | S. No.   | Name & Designation              | S. No.   | Name & Designation     |
|----------|-----------------------------|----------|---------------------------------|----------|------------------------|
|        1 | Ved Prakash,AE(C)           | 1        | Guru Narayan Mishra, AE (Civil) | 1        | Arun Kumar, JE (Civil) |
|        2 | Vijay Kumar Sharma,EE(E)    |          |                                 |          |                        |
|        3 | Mahesh Chandra Sharma,AE(E) |          |                                 |          |                        |
|        4 | Chandra Prakash Sahu,JE(E)  |          |                                 |          |                        |
|        5 | Rajesh Singh,AE(C)          |          |                                 |          |                        |
|        6 | Sherin A Sarasam,UDC        |          |                                 |          |                        |