A Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) conductor working at Tirupur on Saturday released a list claiming to be ‘first list of corrupt TNSTC officials in the Coimbatore Division.’ It had names of 10 officials holding top positions in the division and four regions (districts) under the division.
The conductor, M.C. Krishnan, claimed that the persons had committed several malpractices from appointments to accepting bribes which resulted in TNSTC Coimbatore Division incurring losses to the tune of several crores. He said that he would release names of 20 more corrupt officials in a couple of weeks if the authorities concerned failed to initiate action against the officials named in the first list.
“I submitted petitions about the corrupt officials to the State government, Transport Secretary, Chief Minister’s Cell and Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption but in vain,” he said. On Saturday, the list was pasted on buses at TNSTC Tirupur I and II depots and Tirupur Bus Stand.
A TNSTC spokesperson in Coimbatore, who did not want to be named, denied the charges. He said that the allegations were baseless and the list might have been made to tarnish the image of the officials. Four of the officials named in it had already retired and two of them had been transferred to other corporations of the TNSTC. Two others were on the verge of retirement and the list might have been made to disturb them, the spokesperson said.