They book your air tickets, reserve your hotel rooms, and plan your holidays. Now, they also help government officials claim Leave Travel Allowance (LTA) on fake bills and thereby rob the state exchequer of crores of rupees.
A recent sting operation has exposed that travel agents provide bogus bills for the costliest air tickets to government employees while offering them much cheaper fares.
The government officials, in turn, use these fake bills to get the benefit of travel allowance.
In the nine-minute video captured by a central government employee, agents have claimed that they get a lions share of the ticket cost as they offer cheaper air fare and undisclosed benefits like hotel stay, food and transport to babus.
Upon the whistleblower’s complaint, the Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) of the Delhi government has appointed an investigating officer to probe the issue.
28/10/15 Shashank Shekhar/Mail Online
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A recent sting operation has exposed that travel agents provide bogus bills for the costliest air tickets to government employees while offering them much cheaper fares.
The government officials, in turn, use these fake bills to get the benefit of travel allowance.
In the nine-minute video captured by a central government employee, agents have claimed that they get a lions share of the ticket cost as they offer cheaper air fare and undisclosed benefits like hotel stay, food and transport to babus.
Upon the whistleblower’s complaint, the Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) of the Delhi government has appointed an investigating officer to probe the issue.
28/10/15 Shashank Shekhar/Mail Online
