HYDERABAD: Eight Assistant Medical Officers of Health of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation are alleged to have misappropriated around Rs 55 lakh, by diverting collected trade licence fee. Initially, the vigilance wing of the GHMC conducted an enquiry and found the officials had swindled the money. As the issue was of serious nature, the previous GHMC commissioner referred the matter to the state vigilance department. After their probe, they found there was indeed misuse of GHMC money and they submitted the report to GHMC commissioner MT Krishna Babu a few days back.
Based on the report, the Commissioner has issued show ause notices to the eight AMOHs- G Vijay Kumar, Rafi, P Amrutha Rao, M Shiva Kumar, M Ganesh, M Manohar, Chandrakala and S Sermishta. They have been asked to deposit the misappropriated amount within a week’s time, failing which serious action would be initiated against them.
Senior GHMC officials told Express that the AMOHs after collecting the trade licence fee from the traders, failed to remit the collected amount into GHMC’s account. In many cases, the traders whose issued cheques bounced, the medical officers went to these traders and collected amount from them but did not remit them into the corporation’s treasury.
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