Collector,
Khurda and Tahasildar, Bhubaneswar are acting as Pussy Cat of Dr. Achyut Samant,
founder KIIT (exposed under RTI)
Dear friends
As aware you are,
while hearing Application No. 92/2016/EZ filed in National Green
Tribunal, Kolkatta by Dr. Subash Mohapatra, Human Rights Activist seeking
direct to restore 18 acres of
forest land illegally acquired by
KIIT/KISS to Govt. fold , NGT issued
direction dt. 21.3.17 to Secretary, Dept. of
Revenue and Disaster Management and Dept. of Forest and Environment, Govt. of
Odisha to demarcate the land in question and undertake fencing
around the land and fixed 18th
May for next hearing.
Astonishingly, on 18.5.17, during hearing of the case, the State
Govt. neither filed any affidavit nor produced Action Taken Report. On third hearing dated 5.7.17, the State Govt. has again
sought one month time to submit ATR. The
next hearing will be held in August 2017.
However, to understand
about steps taken by State Govt
on direction of NGT to return back
forest land illegally acquired by
KIIT/KISS, RTI Application dt. 20.4.17 was
filed to the PIO, Dept.
of Revenue and Disaster Management seeking
information about Action taken
on order of National Green Tribunal in Case No. 92/2016/EZ of Subash Mohapatra
vs Govt. of Odisha & other on KIIT/KISS land issue by Collector,
Khurda. RTI Application was
transferred to the PIO, Office of the Collector, Khurda who has transferred the
said application to the PIO, Office of Tahasildar, Khurda to produce Action
Taken Report. Though two months passed, the PIO has not supplied any information.
But, the PIO, Dept. of
R&DM has provided some information how the Collector, Khurda does not care to
respond the series of letter sent by R&DM dept. It was found from extract of file noting dt. 22.4.17 that
the Revenue and Disaster Management forwarded the order of NGT to the
Collector, Khurda with direction to implement the order of NGT dt. 21.3.17.
Finding no response from Colletor, Khurda, 0n 10.5.17,
Sri Binay Kumar Singh, the Under
Secretary has again sought report from the Collector, Khurda about implementation of orders of Hon’ble NGT to this Department immediately.
Finding no response, the Dept. again wrote a letter dt. 1.7.17 (letter no. RDM-LRGE KHD-0024-2017)
to the Collector, Khurda to enquire into the matter immediately and take necessary action as per law
with intimation to the Dept.
On
13.4.17, Sri Debibrata Biswal, Special
Secretary to Govt. Dept. of Forest and Environment wrote a letter to the Collector, Khurda to
take necessary steps to execute orders of National Green Tribunal and send
Action Taken Report immediately.
Despite plethora of
letter correspondence, the Collector, Khurda simply continues to ignore the
order of Dept. of Revenue and DM and Forest and Environment and does not care
to produce ATR.
(All the
related documents are available with me and can be provided on request from
interested parties)
Pradip
Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date-
15.7.17
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