A Noida Authority accountant was suspended from his service for allegedly reaching a meeting at a village inebriated condition, leading to a ruckus as people expressed anger, said the official.On Thursday, a programme was organised by the Noida Authority to redress issues of villagers at the Bharat Ghar of village Hoshiarpru in sector 51 in Uttar Pradesh, where accountant Bhim Kumar from the Bhulekh Department, and several officials from the Engineering Department participated.Noida Authority accountant suspended for attending event in inebriated conditionBriefing about the ruckus, a Noida Authority official said, “Bhim Kumar arrived at the programme drunk while on duty due to which there was a ruckus in the meeting and the villagers expressed their anger.”“The action of Kumar is indicative of indiscipline in the government tasks assigned to him. Due to this act, the image of the Authority was tarnished in the public mind,” the official said.His conduct is against the provisions of Uttar Pradesh Government Service Conduct Rules, 1956 and the prescribed provisions of NOIDA Service Rules, 1981, due to which the accountant has been suspended by the Chief Executive Officer Lokesh M with immediate effect, the official added.The suspension came within hours of purported videos of the inebriated accountant engaging in an argument with villagers surfacing all over the internet.
