pune political activists from pune cantonment board are crying foul against the principal director of defence estates and his subordinate officers for engaging pcb employees to do personal household chores in their homes and gardens nearly 16 pcb employees from the sanitation and gardening department are currently working as domestic help in the homes of several pdde officers on monday bharatiya janata partys bjp camp unit activists led by devendra bhatia gherraoed pcb chief executive officer a bhaskar reddy and submitted a memorandum to him demanding immediate stoppage of such unauthorised practices this is highly objectionable how can the pcb allow its employees to be misused for rendering domestic services in the houses of pdde officers bhatia said the employees were appointed in pcb for the purpose of military civil conservancy services with the proper sanction from the army authorities under the safai karmachari and gardeners mali staff strength approximately a monthly salary of rs 1 lakh goes from pcb exchequer toward the salary of these employees vinayak katkar another bjp activist pointed out that there were some expdde officers too who are enjoying the services rendered by pcb employees how can pcb allow such thing these are personal favours extended by pcb toward these officers for reasons best known to them katkar said pcb chief executive officer a bhaskar reddy said that he was aware of the such practices we have taken note of the memorandum submitted by bjp activists reddy said refusing to comment any further however undeterred by reddys assurances bjp activists are demanding a cbi inquiry into the matter they are demanding recovery of expenditure incurred upon the services rendered by the pcb employees from the salaries of the concerned officers the list of pcb employees from the sanitation and gardening department whose services are being misused by some pdde officers are l narayan venkatayya laxmi ram dodke ranjana pandurang kolhe shashikala suresh sonawane yogesh uttam agawane pushpa mohite shoba raju pillay meena ramesh adamane sanjaya ananda sathe kamlesh govind jadhav sachin rajaram jagtap rahul prakash kadam mahesh vilas bengale amar dattatraya ghare kiran namdeo balwadkar dilip bhagwan kharote and ashok nagesh thorat