VoiceofSikkim

Shoes come under scanner, shoes smell stinking conspiracy: BJP

21 Jan, Gangtok: The sudden outbreak of fire in a HRD Department godown located in TNHS premise on 20 January where BATA shoes, School Uniforms, Stationeries worth summed across Rs 1 Crore rattled down to ashes took a U-turn in Sikkim politics today. Padam Sharma the party worker of Baratiya Janta Party BPJ unit of Sikkim has jolted a radical statement over the incident here at capital today. The party alleges that incident reflects some sort of foul smell from the aftermath ashes, Sharma expresses his grief over the fate which poor Sikkim children should face in upcoming new academic session. The fire that took place suddenly overwhelming the entire stocks of essential stationeries comprising of freshly piled up 25,000 pairs of BATA shoes, School Uniforms, Copies and other itineraries housed in the departmental godown should be scanned thoroughly via investigating agencies, he said.  The situation under which the fire outraged was annoyingly termed as a result of short circuit by the department without investigating into a cause surrounds even a common people with larger angle of perspective doubts, he said.
Sharma in the press statement has sought for the details of work order between the supplier / contractor and the HRD Department in the said tender work, the aforesaid information needs to brought up to the public notice in this regard through a media, he also suspects foul play ties between department and the supplier / contractor in the incident. Sikkim education system is deteriorating day by day due to unavailability of teachers, maintenance of existing infrastructures in remote places within the state as such in those fields the HRD could have taken some measure to rectify instead of indulging in commission factor from the contractors, said Sharma.