Neo-Colonial
Land-grabbing Mania
During colonial regime, the
Britishers adopted various dirty tricks like waging war, offering bribe,
hatching conspiracy and instigating one against another to conquer India. The
same tactics was earlier followed by Mughal Emperors during feudal period
to expand their rule by capturing the Hindu Kingdoms in India. In
the neo-colonial period, the corporate houses are seen adopting all illegal and
fraud means by influencing national Govt. to grab invaluable land at any
cost. Sri Achyut Samant, Mentor of KIIT is no way different
from them which has been explicitly exposed by Comptroller and Auditor General
of India in its report entitled “ Performance Audit of CAG on
General and Social Sector”.
Sri Samant has adopted all
types of fraud, forgery and illegalities to capture most valuable and precious
Govt. ( public land) Land in Bhubaneswar to build up his empire in the
name of the people and state. I do present herewith series of cases
studies of his malpractice, irregularities in respect of grabbing land
violating all norms, values and ethics.
Case
Study- 1: Misutilisation
of land by KIIT purchased through BIFR( Board of Industrial and Financial
Reconstruction) resulting in a loss of Rs. 51 crores.
KIIT purchased a piece of land of
16.200 acres from Magnetix India Pvt. Limited (6.00 acres) and Indo Maxwell
Limited (10.200 acres) through the official Liquidator, Odisha High Court. In
case of Indo Maxwell Limited liquidation case, the Honourable High Court
specifically instructed (July 2006) in Misc case No. 78/2005 that the
transferred land should be utilised as per the terms and conditions of the
original lease agreement, i.e., industrial purpose only.
But, in blatant disregard to the
orders of the honourable court, KIIT was found utilising the land for running a
school. No action was taken by IDCO for cancellation / resumption of land
resulting in loss of Rs. 51 crore (calculated on the bench mark valuation of
the cost of land).
Case Study- 2: Illegal regularisation
of mutual transfer of land to KIIT resulting loss of Rs. 73.75 crores to State
Exchequer
Section 34 of the IDCO Act 1980
stipulated that in order to promote rapid growth and development of industries,
the Board could carry out a six-monthly review of the allotted plots and resume
the unutilised portion of the allotted land by giving a notice to the
allottee of the industrial estate. Further, as per IDCO circular (September
2004), no mutual transfer of industrial property was permissible and in
the event of any allotted property mis-utilised as educational/ technical/
management/other professional institutes, the allotment was required to be
cancelled.
But astonishingly, it was found
that the allotted industrial plot of 15 . 516 acres to different
companies like PGL Plastic Tubes Limited, Kalinga Software Limited, B. Engineers and
Builders Limited, Utkal Tubes, Package India, Mangalachand Telecom Pvt.
Ltd., New Life Health Care, Arya Aluminium Ltd., Mineral Rock Products, Minu
Concrete Works etc. which were found lying vacant and misutilised was tarnsferred to
KIIT instead of resumption of land by IDCO. The High Level Land Allotment
sub-committee approved (May 2010) the proposals for mutual transfer
of these plots which were pending finalisation as per benchmark valuation
fixed by Revenue and Disaster Management Department (April 2010).
But by-passing the decision of
the Government and the HLAC, the Board of Director (BoD) decided (July
2010) to dispose off the mutual transfer cases on the basis of land
rates prevalent on the date of the receipt of such
applications leading
to illegal transfers. Accordingly, all the pending cases were disposed off as per
rate structure prescribed by BoD, which also resulted in a loss of revenue to
the extent of Rs. 73.75 crores.
Pradip Pradhan, M- 9937843482
04.09.2014
