TNN | Jan 5, 2016, 11.13 AM IST
INDORE: A circular issued by Indore district collector quoting finance department directives--asking government employees to submit details of the card to the treasury to draw salary--- has put 30 health department officials of Indore in a spot. They have not received salary for December. Among those, who did not get their salary include Vyapam scam whistleblower Dr Anand Rai's wife Dr Gauri Rai.
The circular, a copy of which is with TOI, says salaries of health department employees who fail to submit information about their Aadhaar cards to the treasury department, may not be released.
Dr Gauri Rai, who is also yet to submit information about her Aadhaar card to the treasury, feels the action of withholding her salary is a violation of high court order. The Indore bench of high court had earlier directed the state government to release her salary after it was withheld in October 2015 in a Vyapam scam-related fallout.
"It is a dictatorial order of the finance department. Salary of any government employee cannot be stopped even when any officer is suspended. It is a human right of any employee," said Dr Anand Rai. Passing an order against Supreme Court directives is unconstitutional, he said.