Chandigarh, June 12 -- The Haryana government has ordered that 80 engineering officials including a number of class 1 officials of the irrigation and water resources department be charge-sheeted for major and minor penalty.

The action has been initiated after samples of the civil works being undertaken by the department failed quality tests in 16 circles. Officials in the rank of superintending engineer (SEs) and heading these 16 circles would be issued a charge sheet for minor penalty while those in the rank of executive engineer, sub-divisional officer and junior engineer would be chargesheeted for major penalty.

Chief minister Nayab Singh Saini has approved disciplinary action against these officials. Certain chief engineer rank offi...