Officials ‘aided wrongdoers’, says vigilance report on hosp plot sale

Gurgaon: A high-level vigilance probe has indicted 12 people, including two IAS officers and three HCS officers, for their alleged involvement in irregularities in the resale of a plot earmarked for a hospital in Sector 56, thus causing huge losses to the state exchequer.
HSVP had allotted the plot for Rs 71.65 lakh to Dr Prabha Manchanda to build a hospital, possession of which was given in 1997. Manchanda sold the plot to the directors of Sanjivani Life Care Medical in November 2006 for Rs 1.37 crore. As per HSVP provisions, the hospital should have been constructed within five years of the land allotment. In case a plot holder fails to complete construction, HSVP can cancel the allotment.
In his inquiry report, additional director general of the state vigilance bureau Subhash Yadav said that the plot should have been taken over by HSVP on account of delay in construction, but no heed was paid by the department, rather the proceedings of false demarcation and re-zoning were done.
“Although such fictitious demarcation was only on papers, but it caused huge loss to the state exchequer and on pretext of it, a fresh allotment letter was issued in August 2015 and the time of construction was also extended to July 2022. This was done by the top brass of HSVP, then Huda. The government officials intentionally aided wrong-doers and defeated the statutory purpose, the construction of hospital and treatment of general public,” the report said.
Apart from Dr Manchanda and the directors of Sanjivani, the probe report has named seven government officials, including two IAS officers — Anita Yadav, then Huda administrator (Gurgaon), and former estate officer VS Hooda — and three HCS officers — NS Bangad, Tarun Pawaria and Satbir Singh. The other two officials are Om Prakash and Subhash Chandra. While Anita Yadav is currently the additional director of Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Gurgaon, VS Hooda is serving as the HSVP administrator in Rohtak.
However, another HCS officer Vivek Kalia, who was named in an earlier FIR filed by Gurgaon police, has not been implicated in Yadav's report. “I was surprised to know that how financial losses have been caused to the state by the intentional involvement of officials of HSVP and their syndicate comprising touts, agents, and dealers,” Yadav said in his report, submitted to the DG of the vigilance bureau a day before his retirement in May.
Yadav has recommended clubbing of his inquiry report with the ongoing police probe in the case. “The matter is now under investigation with the Gurgaon police commissioner,” he told TOI.