DERA GHAZI KHAN, Jan 20: The committee, which was constituted by the district council convener for looking into the affairs of citizen community boards, has pointed out gross irregularities in the whole process of CCBs and directed that the relevant record should be confiscated.

In a report, the committee also found out that the executive district officer (community development) did not provide necessary record of registered CCBs to the committee.

District Naib Nazim Javed Iqbal Qaisrani, the convenor, had constituted a 10-member committee headed by Union Council No 3 Nazim Abbakkir Saddique to probe the allegations of irregularities in the CCBs.

The committee chairman wrote a letter on Jan 8 to the EDO of community development for the provision of necessary record of CCBs, but he did not provide the record allegedly to conceal facts. However, the committee has prepared a report with the help of insiders, pointing out irregularities on a large scale.

According to the report, around 131 of the 290 registered citizen community boards submitted their development schemes. Of those, some 117 schemes were approved out of which 100 were about tribal area and only 17 related to CCBs of Taunsa Sharif and Dera Ghazi Khan tehsils.

The committee detected many irregularities in the process of registration and granting fund.

It pointed out in its report that many CCBs made executive bodies of the boards comprising one family member each instead of giving representation to the community.

The approval of schemes, it disclosed, were made without technical sanction and counter-check.

The funds for the establishment of information centres were given to some of the CCBs by ignoring rules. The EDO, according to the report, did not check the actual rates of computers and other accessories of information centres. It also revealed that the EDO had granted fund to institutions for the purchase of school van in violation of rules.

As many as 75 schemes out of the 117 approved ones were granted funds for the provision of hand-pumps, but the officials concerned could not decide where to install those.

Funds were released for the establishment of a small flour mill against the regulations.