Shri Naveen Patnaik, MLA and Chief Minister of Odisha loves to read
only Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, exposed through RTI
Shri Naveen Patnaik, MLA
has taken only few books on
Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi in the month of Feb. and March 2012 within period of 10 years of his tenure as
Chief Minister of Odisha from the Odisha
Legislative Assembly Library, the information
provided by PIO, Odisha Legislative Assembly in response to RTI query on 1.7.15.
RTI Application was
submitted to the PIO, Office of OLA to get the information about use of Library
by the MLAs of Odisha from the period of 2004-2014.
It deserves to be mentioned here that
Library has been set up in
Assembly to provide an opportunity
to the MLAs, MPs, former MLAs and MPs to
get the books , reports, periodicals, records etc. for their study and research, enrich their
knowledge about laws, policies, Manuals, assembly deliberation, Odisha History,
culture, linguistic movement, Laws and regulations, women and crime, Indian
Constitutions, administration, Land reform etc. The objective behind setting of
library is to give inputs to the MLAs to make them efficient, knowledgeable and
dynamic policy makers in the state.
As per norms fixed by Library,
MLAs are required to make requisition of the books, periodicals, reports etc. and take it for their study. Permission is
also granted by Secretary, OLA to the
staff of the members of the
assembly and bonafide research
scholar for use of library, if
he is satisfied that a particular person is actually
required to assist a member for collecting the information
which may help him in the
efficient discharge of his duties as a member.
RTI Query was made
to have an idea how many MLAs have really
used Library and taken books, reports, records, materials for their study, discussion
or deliberation on different
issues, policy matters in assembly or outside assembly. It is
widely felt that the performance of the
MLAs are very poor and kind of deliberation and discussion
in assembly witnessed very low standard. The participation of the MLAs in
the debate on Laws and policies in the assembly is not encouraging.
The information obtained
through RTI exposes that 48 out of 147 MLAs have used library and obtained books
from Library within last ten years. It means 99 MLAs
have never taken any books, reports, periodicals from Library.
Sri Naveen Patnaik has made requisition
of the following books from the Assembly Library.
Date of
Requisition
|
Name of books
|
Date of return of
books
|
24.2.2012
|
Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Vol-V
|
29.2.2012
|
29.2.12
|
Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Vol-VIII
|
15.3.12
|
15.3.2012
|
Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Vol-XII
|
21.3.12
|
21.3.12
|
Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Vol-XI
|
14.3.12 ( This date is wrong)
|
Comments-
A. Shri
Naveen Patnaik has taken only Books on Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. It
means he does not like to read any reports, documents on laws, policies,
Manuals or he might be well-versed with
these laws and policies like forest law, land related laws, assembly deliberations,
socio-economic-cultural history of Odisha. He might have enriched his knowledge
and getting prepared to be guided by philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. But we hardly see it being reflected in his career.
B. It has come to my notice that the
books, reports taken from Library
by MLAs are not
for them to read but
for others or relatives on request.
C. However,
he MLAs who have taken books from Assembly Library are as follows
Sl.No
|
Name of MLAs
|
Party
|
1
|
Dr.Prafulla Majhi
|
Congress
|
2
|
Gregory Minz
|
Congress
|
3
|
Prasanna Acharya
|
BJD
|
4
|
Bhagirathi Sethi
|
BJD
|
5
|
Praveen ch. Bhanjadeo
|
BJD
|
6
|
Raghunath Mohanty
|
BJD
|
7
|
Amar Satapathy
|
BJD
|
8
|
Debendra Kanhar
|
BJD
|
9
|
Bhujabal Majhi
|
Congress
|
10
|
Satosh Singh Saluja
|
Congress
|
11
|
K.V. Singhdeo
|
BJP
|
12
|
Naveen Nanda
|
BJD
|
13
|
Kalpataru Das
|
BJD
|
14
|
Bhupinder Singh
|
Congress ( Now BJD)
|
15
|
Naba Kishor Das
|
Congress
|
16
|
Sanjeev pradhan
|
BJD
|
17
|
Premanand ayak
|
BJD
|
18
|
Rama Ch. Hansda
|
BJD
|
19
|
Ananta Das
|
BJD
|
20
|
Pratap Ch. Sarangi
|
BJP
|
21
|
Surendra Prasad Paramanik
|
Congress
|
22
|
Alekha Kumar Jena
|
BJD
|
23
|
Pratap Keshari Dev
|
BJD
|
24
|
Pratap Jena
|
BJD
|
25
|
Chandra Sarathi Behera
|
BJD
|
26
|
Sipra Mallik
|
BJD
|
27
|
Manohar Randhari
|
BJD
|
28
|
Ramakant Seth
|
BJD
|
29
|
Niranjan Pujhari
|
BJD
|
30
|
PritiRanjan Ghadei
|
BJD
|
31
|
Mamata Madhi
|
Congress
|
32
|
Lal Bihari Himirika
|
BJD
|
33
|
Chakradhar paika
|
Congress
|
34
|
Damburdhar Mallik
|
BJD
|
35
|
Surya Naraya patro
|
BJD
|
36
|
Arun sahu
|
BJD
|
37
|
Kashinath Mallik
|
BJD
|
38
|
Sidharth Sekhar Singh
|
BJD
|
39
|
Satya Narayan Pradhan
|
BJD
|
40
|
Ashok Panda
|
BJD
|
41
|
Adikand Sethi
|
CPI
|
42
|
Naveen patnaik
|
BJD
|
43
|
Prasad Harichandan
|
Congress
|
44
|
Maheswar Mohanty
|
BJD
|
45
|
Rabi Mallik
|
Congress
|
46
|
Bikram Keshari Arukh
|
BJD
|
47
|
Pradeep Amat
|
BJD
|
48
|
Ranendra Pratap Swain
|
BJD
|
Pradip Pradhan, M-9937843482, Date- 6.7.15
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