An Indian government official has been suspended for emptying a water tank in the central state of Chhattisgarh to recover his mobile phonewhich fell to the press while a photo was being taken, authorities reported today.
The official “has been suspended from the administrative office on charges of wasting water from the reservoir to find his phone”, the deputy manager of the Chattisgarh food department, Ghanshyam Kanwar, informed EFE on Monday.
The incident took place last week at the Kherkatta dam in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, when the official dropped his phone while taking a photo and asked local divers to find his device, claiming it contained sensitive data. of the government.
When the operators unsuccessfully completed the search for the device, the official obtained a diesel pump with which he removed more than two million liters of water for more than three days, until a colleague reported what had happened and had the operation stopped, according to what he explained. the Indian news channel NDTV.
The officer managed to recover the mobile phone, although due to the number of days it was under water, it became unusable.
Several local media broadcast photographs and videos of the operator in front of the dam along with another person sheltering under a red umbrella while the bombs dried up the water reservoir.
In a video message released to the local press, the officer said he had asked the water resources department for permission to empty the reservoir.
The authorities responded thatit was not a problem if the water was drained three to four feet deep and would actually benefit farmers who would have more water. That’s why I got help from the locals to drain about a meter of water and got my phone back.”, he assured, as reported by NDTV.
The event generated criticism, including that of the former head of Government of Chattisgarh raman singh who considered this action as a waste of a resource as necessary as the water that could have served to irrigate more than 600 hectares of crops in the middle of summer.
“In the scorching heat, people depend on tankers, no arrangements even for drinking water”, he wrote on Twitter.
Source: EFE
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