It is expected that there should be Zero Tolerance for any sort of corruption whatsoever at all times but most of all during a pandemic like the one in which we currently find ourselves enveloped in.
Disaster Management Funds in particular need to be so judiciously accounted for and very discreetly audited.
Besides the much debated issue of oxygen, there needs to be an investigation into who has been making a buck even on the meals supplied to in-house patients at the Covid care centres. If inflated bills have been raised it is a cause for concern as public money is meant to be spent for the welfare of the public and not to be pocketed by those in power and authority.
An example at hand is, though the day to day ground work of the Shiroda Covid centre in Ponda was overlooked after by the Mamlatdar officials from Ponda, all the bills were surprisingly blindly countersigned by the Mamlatdar of Dharbandora without him having been on the field at Shiroda to ascertain the correctness and accuracy of those bills and the services that were factually rendered.
There needs to be a performance audit besides a fiscal one into all the expenditure incurred during this pandemic to ensure that there has not been any mismanagement or pilferage of Covid funds by any thick skinned officials.
Any abuse of such funds already in very short supply must not be tolerated.
