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Childcare in threat trap

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BY OUR CORRESPONDENT Published 03.11.02, 12:00 AM

Jamshedpur, Nov. 3: Work at the Child Development Project Office (CDPO) in Gamharia in the Seraikela-Kharsawan district has come to a standstill following threats by a local politician.

BJP district president Bosko Besra and his henchmen had allegedly stormed into the CDPO premises on October 26 and attacked workers. But the employees have neither lodged an FIR nor reported the matter to the senior district administration officials.

Sources said after roughing up the staff of the CDPO, the BJP activists had forced them to apologise in public for running “a racket of the supplies of nutritious food being provided by the Centre free of cost.”

Deputy commissioner Vandana Dadel has formed a one-man team to probe the entire matter and has asked the panel to submit the report at the earliest.

But sources in the CDPO office said the BJP leader was annoyed with the head-clerk, Achyuta Nand Prasad, who was witness to a bungling case that led to the suspension of former CDPO, Suchita Bhagat, in September this year.

“Bhagat is Bosko Besra’s man. And so we have been targeted,” sources said. Besra was unavailable for comments.

“The situation was so grim in the Gamahria CDPO office that food and oil have not been distributed after that ugly incident,” sources said.

Recently, the CDPO had drawn up elaborate plans for promoting child development programmes.

The measures include distribution of free nutritious food and edible oil to children hailing from families living below poverty line.

More than 130 women casual workers had been engaged by the department to distribute these items. “But after last Saturday’s incident nothing has been distributed. Neither the CDPO staff nor the casual workers have turned up for the work. The project officer, Anjana Kumari, is staying only for a couple of hours and is leaving office without doing any work,” sources said.

The administration has not done anything to defuse the situation. Sub-divisional officer, Seraikela, G. Oraon and deputy commissioner, Vandana Dadel, are waiting for the victims to file an FIR so that they can initiate action.

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