LUCKNOW, May 20 -- Uttar Pradesh minister for social welfare (independent charge) Asim Arun on Monday ordered suspension of Barabanki district's social welfare officer Sushma Verma and hostel superintendent of a PG College in Ramnagar, Santosh Kumar Kanaujia, for financial irregularities and laxity in government work.

The minister, during his visit to Barabanki's Ramnagar tehsil, inspected the PG College hostel there run by the social welfare department.

During the inspection, work even worth approximately Rs.1 lakh was not found to be done against the amount of Rs.5 lakh made available for repair and other works in the college hostel. Following it, he ordered suspension of the two and instituted an inquiry against them under the deputy...