After the Municipal Corporation of Delhi found 22,853 ghost employees on its payrolls, the city Mayor today said the civic agency will recommend a CBI inquiry into the scam that has been causing a loss of 204 crore rupees per year to it.<br/><br/>Mayor Kanwar Sain told reporters that all the related files were sent to the Lt Governor to recommend a CBI probe into the matter. After an internal inquiry was conducted by Municipal<br/><br/>Commissioner K S Mehra, it was found that MCD has 22,853 employees on its payrolls who are missing. The report said while the total employees are 1,27,094, only 1,04,241 have been accounted for.<br/><br/>The probe was ordered after the thumb impression-based biometric system of attendance introduced by the civic body in August 2008 and later extended to all MCD zones, brought out a gap in the data given by drawing and disbursing officers and HoDs and the number of employees enrolled in biometric records.<br/>