False and Misleading Information by Sri Achyut Samant, Founder of
KISS about KISS in Odisha being granted first Special Consultative Status by UN
Appeal
to the people of Odisha not to be misguided by this false propaganda.
On 29.8.15,
There was half-page advertisement in
almost all leading Odia daily newspaper released by Sri Achyut Samant, Founder of KISS and KIIT about a Special Consultative Status granted to Kalinga Institute of Social
Science ( KISS) by Economic and Social Council of
United Nations in its meeting held in New York on July 2015. It has
also been mentioned in the advertisement that KISS is the first Non-Government
in Odisha to get this recognition. In fact, this is false and misleading.
It is needless to mention here that that
this advertisement was released at a time
when 28
Social Action Groups
were conducting Press Meet at Lohia
Academy on 28.7.15 to share their
plan of Action to oppose visit of Hon’ble President of India and Chief
Justice of India to KIIT, an
Institution which stands infamous
for illegal land grabbing in
Bhubaneswar, capital of Odisha. Sri
Achyut Samant, Founder of KISS and KIIT, as termed by CAG is a habitual encroacher in Bhubaneswar and grabbed
around 100 acres of land by adopting all fraudulent means in
connivance with corrupt
bureaucracy.
Let us come
to the real issue. The Special Consultative
Status is granted by UN Economic and Social Council to various Non-Government
Organisations for their outstanding work
in their respective fields. UN body followed its own procedure granting this status
to the NGOs working in different countries. It is wrong to say that KISS, the
first NGO of Odisha was granted this
Special Consultative Status by UN. Many leading NGOs of Odisha have already been
granted this status since last few years. For example, VIKASH, one of the leading NGOs of Odisha was
granted this Special Status on 16th August 2008. Its founder Sri Ashok Nanda, a leading NGO leader
has taken a lot of pain staking effort to achieve this Status.
Presently,
this status is generally granted to many organisations working across the
globe. The UN has relaxed the stringent procedure in order to accommodate many
organisations for consultation on different issues. It is not so important to
get this status in the present day. The real objective of releasing this advertisement by the
Authority of KISS was to dilute the attention of the people from Civil Society
expose about acres of land looted by KIIT /KISS and their opposition to the
Visit of Rastrapatijee to KIIT.
It is again needless to mention here
that apprehending law and order situation due to Civil Society’s stubborn
opposition and road blockade, Hon’ble President cancelled his visit to KIIT and
left for Delhi on 7.8.15.
Pradip Pradhan, M-9937843482
Date- 09.08.15
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