4 RTA staff face axe, recover 1.20 cr: Mahender

Hyderabad: Transport Minister P Mahender Reddy today directed suspension of four officials for alleged irregularities at Bandlaguda RTA office. He asked to suspend the officials and recover Rs 1.20 cr loss incurred by irregularities and attach Purushotham to central RTA office.

The Minister conducted a review meeting with the RTA and other officials at Secretariat here and pulled them up for corrupt activities and middlemen intervention. There shall not be any room for the corruption and irregularities and make optimal use of latest technology and gadgets to give timely delivery of corruption free services. He literally reprimanded for the corruption during vehicle registration violating norms. Take stringent measures against erring officials and staff he directed. Take steps to follow NIC guidelines to register vehicles, count their age and taxes to be paid and keep informed the customers about their vehicles using new technology he added. (NSS)