In Madhya Pradesh’s Jobat town, garbage trucks were allegedly used to ferry sweets meant to be distributed among 2500 students who were participating in the Independence Day celebrations.
The town is about 350 kms away from Bhopal. At the time of the distribution, the truck was gone but news agency ANI tweeted the image of the garbage truck from which sweets were unloaded. Also, the sweets were later distributed among the students, Hindustan Times reported.
#MadhyaPardesh: Sweets, to be distributed among children by district administration in Alirajpur’s Jobat earlier today on #IndependenceDayIndia, were carried in a garbage-carrying vehicle of Municipal Corporation. pic.twitter.com/4bXE0i8DDh
— ANI (@ANI) August 15, 2018
The Jobat Nagar Parishad officials were left red-faced as the picture drew sharp criticism from all corners.
District Congress spokesperson Sunil Khede demanded that an FIR should be filed against the guilty while the BJP’s Alirajpur unit chief Rakesh Agrawal demanded that the collector act against those responsible for the shocking incident. Meanwhile, the Alirajpur district administration has swung into action.
Speaking with the daily, district collector Ganesh Shankar Mishra assured that strict action will be taken against the erring officials. “We are looking into the matter and action would be taken,” he said.
