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Field Publicity chief seeks vigilance probe
Our eFE Bureau
New Delhi: In response to two news items which appeared in this newspaper, Mr Suresh Chopra, Director General, Directorate of Field Publicity (DFP) in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, has written to Mr N Vittal, Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC), requesting him to scrutinise the files in his department. In his letter to Mr Vittal, Mr Chopra wrote: ``I would request that my department's files on the subject of video projectors be immediately seized.'' This is in the context of the Finance Wing of the I&B Ministry investigating into the DFP's purchase of portable video projectors and detecting certain irregularities in the same. Mr Chopra sought a CVC scrutiny into the issues raised by the Finance Wing of the I&B Ministry, which was reported in this newspaper. ``In this context, I am to request that the files dealing with this matter in the I&B Ministry are also seized so that the real picture emerges,'' Mr Chopra wrote. The Finance Wing of the I&B Ministry had recently detected some irregularitiesin the DFP in the purchase of video projectors. Among the main objections raised by the Finance Wing included awarding of the tender repeatedly to one firm, Infinity Systems; and giving factually incorrect information to the Plan Coordination Cell, Planning Commission and the Standing Committee on Communications on the said purchase. Mr Chopra had apologised to the I&B Ministry for submitting incorrect information on the purchase of video projectors. But according to the Finance Wing, a mere apology is not adequate to redress the issue.Copyright © 2001 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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