AURANGABAD:” A few days before, Sambhaji Gurav became the next policeman in the country to climb Mount Everest.
But even as authorities naik Rafiq Shaikh, the nation’s earliest policeman atop Everest, raised a toast into Gurav’s accomplishment, he could not help but say his ongoing wait for support advantages and funding claimed by the country recognition for his accomplishment in May 2016.
“Climbing Mount Everest was simpler than beating red-tapism,” rues that the 35-year-old Aurangabad policeman, that dropped three of his feet to frostbite when descending.
The chief minister’s office (CMO) had tweeted June 12, 2016, the state authorities would endure the entire price of Shaikh’s trip.
Shaikh, who fulfilled Fadnavis personally, was promised a departmental advertising.
“At November 2017the official procedure started for hunting my support listing and trip info to ease the departmental advertising.
I had been to find Rs 52 lakh as financing to the excursion.
However, I had been told several technical problems needed cropped up.
I’ve since met a few political leaders, such as former residence minister Anil Deshmukh, however, just obtained hollow guarantees,” Shaikh said Sunday.
On 31 July, 2019, the residence division had written into the Maharashtra DGP highlighting problems in financing Shaikh’s expedition because there wasn’t any”philosophical mind” for this kind of allocation.
It’d also said that the launch of cash cannot be achieved via the CM’s relief fund granted a pending lawsuit in the Bombay HC linked to the utilization of this corpus for purposes besides clinical or unintentional deaths.
“It had been the state authorities which had, by itself, declared the financing, followed by initiation of this practice of amassing my service listing and trip information,” Shaikh said.
Maharashtra residence minister Dilip Walse-Patil didn’t respond to text messages or telephone calls from TOI about the matter.
NCP spokesperson Vikas Lawande explained that his party would take action to make sure Shaikh acquired his dues.
“We shall take up the matter with the home ministry,” he explained.
‘Red tape beats Everest challenge’
