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A erstwhile gram panchayat subordinate and societal activistic Umesh Chavan has said that person been superior fiscal irregularities and swindling of funds successful Malkhed Gram Panchayat and sought enactment against Panchayat Development Officer (PDO) Dashrath Patre.
Mr. Chavan, addressing presspersons successful Kalaburagi connected Wednesday, said that based connected his written ailment astir funds misutilisation, the Executive Officer of the Sedam Taluk Panchayat formed a four-member enquiry committee successful January 2026 for carrying retired a elaborate probe.
The committee visited the gram panchayat, checked records and vouchers and submitted a study connected February 4.
“Several complaints person been submitted to the Chief Executive Officer of the Zilla Panchayat, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Priyank Kharge, the Kalaburagi Deputy Commissioner and different elder officials. Despite this, nary enactment has been taken against the PDO, raising questions astir the imaginable complicity of elder officials and governmental leaders.”Umesh Chavan,Former GP member
Citing the findings of the report, Mr. Chavan said that during 2025-26, funds released nether the 15th Finance Commission person been swindled by attaching vouchers and showing expenditure.
He said that successful October 2025, ₹1,13,78,562 was misappropriated and ₹41,90,106 collected arsenic taxation gross during the aforesaid play was diverted. The full misuse of funds stands astatine ₹1,55,68,668, helium added.
He said that the Taluk Panchayat Executive Officer forwarded the enquiry study to the Chief Executive Officer of the Kalaburagi Zilla Panchayat connected February 5, recommending disciplinary enactment against the PDO Patre.
However, nary enactment has been taken truthful far, helium said.
Mr. Chavan besides accused the PDO of committing irregularities successful auctioning commercialized shops, signaling fake biometric attendance of members successful Panchatantra 2.0 without convening meetings and misusing funds meant for persons with disabilities.
“Several complaints person been submitted to the Chief Executive Officer of the Zilla Panchayat, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Priyank Kharge, the Kalaburagi Deputy Commissioner and different elder officials. Despite this, nary enactment has been taken against the PDO, raising questions astir the imaginable complicity of elder officials and governmental leaders,” Mr. Chavan said.
Stating that the PDO has been threatening members and the nationalist with dire consequences, Mr. Chavan urged the authorities to registry a transgression lawsuit against Patre, retrieve the misappropriated funds, represent a peculiar probe squad to probe into his assets and instrumentality contiguous disciplinary enactment against him.
