Being convicted in bribery case, Assam Govt dismisses ACS officer Nandita Konwar from Service

Feb. 8: Finally, Assam government has dismissed ACS officer Nandita Konwar from her services after she was convicted in a bribery case. The order issued by the Assam government read, “The Assam Public Service Commission on being consulted in the matter agreed to the proposed penalty of dismissal from service which shall ordinarily be a disqualification for future employment upon Nandita Konwar.”

Assam Civil Service (ACS) Officer Nandita Konwar asked for a bribe of Rs.20,000 for disbursing a bill related to construction work in 2015. She was then caught red handed while accepting the bribe. On April, 2021, a special court in Guwahati sentenced the officer to 4 years imprisonment. It needs mention here that Nandita Konwar is the daughter of Devanand Konwar, former Governor of Tripura, Bihar and West Bengal.

In 2015, ACS officer Nandita Konwar was posted as the project director of the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) of Kamrup (Metro) district. It was then that she allegedly had demanded 12 per cent of the bill (which amounts to Rs.12,000) amount of Rs 1.2 lakh for constructing a road under the MPLAD fund of of then Guwahati MP Bijoya Chakravarty. She allegedly took the money from Purna Chetry, adviser to Durga Sarovar Unnayan Samity, an NGO. After six years, the court pronounced the verdict of punishment on 8 April, 2021.