New Delhi : –Lt. Governor Shri Najeeb Jung today constituted a ‘Three Member Committee’ comprising Shri V.K. Shunglu, Former Comptroller and Auditor General, Shri N. Gopalaswami, Former Chief Election Commissioner and Shri Pradeep Kumar, Former Chief Vigilance Commissioner to examine irregularities and infirmities in the files which have been submitted to the Lt. Governor, after the 4thAugust 2016 Judgment of Hon’ble High Court. Several orders issued without the views/approval of the Lt. Governor were also held to be illegal by the Hon’ble High Court. The Three Member Committee comprising Shri V.K. Shunglu, Former Comptroller and Auditor General, Shri N. Gopalaswami, Former Chief Election Commissioner and Shri Pradeep Kumar, Former Chief Vigilance Commissioner is an Independent Committee of eminent persons who have been in public life for several decades and have held high positions in Government with supreme integrity and absolute probity. After the Hon’ble High Court’s judgment, on 8th August and again on 23rd August 2016, Principal Secretaries/HODs of GNCTD were directed to review instances where prior approval of the Lt. Governor was required as per rules but was not obtained, and to place all such matters before him. In response, about 400 files have been received from GNCTD for Ex-Post Facto Approval of the Lt. Governor and some more files are awaited. On preliminary scrutiny of these files, it is found that over the last one and half years several decisions taken are in violation of Acts/Rules with attendant legal and financial implications. It has become necessary to examine them in depth and suggest forward action. Therefore, the Committee has been constituted.
The Committee shall broadly:a) Determine whether the decisions taken in these files and the processes adopted were in violation of the Acts/Rules and the constitutional scheme for Governance of GNCT of Delhi. b) Determine whether such violations were wrong, illegal and deliberate acts of omissions/commissions.c) Examine the role played by the Public Functionaries/Officers of the GNCT of Delhi and of any other individual related with these violations and fix responsibility. d) Recommend appropriate administrative/criminal/civil action as well as action for recovery of financial loss to Government exchequer, if any, by such wrong decisions against the public functionaries/officers/individuals concerned. e) Recommend course of action to be taken on each of the files/proposals including whether the decisions can or cannot be regularized by the Lt. Governor. f) Outline the administrative, legal and financial repercussions of the regularization/non-regularization of the decisions as in (e) above. g) Make any other recommendation relevant in the above context including further inquiry in specific cases. The Committee has been requested to submit its interim reports and recommendations to the Lt. Governor from time to time and to submit the final report within six weeks of the first meeting.
