Railways to probe scam during Lalu Prasad's tenure
New Delhi:
Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee has said an
external agency would probe allegations of graft during her predecessor's tenure.
Lawmakers belonging to Bihar's Janata Dal (United) had alleged that that during
the tenure of former Railways Minister Lalu Prasad, people were asked to cede
land to the railways in exchange for jobs and contracts in the organisation. Railway
Recruitment Boards (RRB) and the Railway Recruitment Committees (RRC) make
recruitment
to Indian Railways. "RRB and the RRC is an organisation. They do it for this.
So if severe complaints come against the RRB and RRC then it is the procedure
of the department, they do it internally if internal matter is involved and if
outsiders are involved then the procedure is to depute an outside agency," Banerjee
told reporters here on Thursday. She said it would also review past land seizures,
mostly from farmers. It needs land to proceed with a 5.8 billion dollars project
to connect Indian regions and spur economic activity.
