Memorandum
submitted to Governor, Odisha Seeking direction to Govt. of
Odisha to constitute Lokayukta and inquiring of all scams either by Lokayukta
or CBI.
On 4.8.17, while ending 3-day Mass Dharana
organsied by the members of Civil Society groups at
Lower PMG, Bhubaneswar in protest
against failure of Nabin patnaik
Govt. to take action against the IAS
officers involved in multiple scams in Odisha,
a four-member team submitted
Memorandum to Governor, Odisha Seeking direction to Govt. to
constitute Lokayukta and inquiring of all scams either by Lokayukta or CBI.
During
17 years’ rule of Nabin Patnaik Govt., Odisha has witnessed Mega Scams causing
revenue loss of thousands of crores of rupees to State Exchequer. Many of these
Scams have been exposed through RTI. These Scams with approximate Revenue loss are Mining Scam ( one lakh Crore rupees), Land Scam in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack ( Rs. 10,000 crores
), Dal Scam ( Rs. 700 crores), OKCL Scam ( Rs. 200 crore), Medhabruti Scam ( Rs. 50 crores) ,
Electricity Scam favouring
Reliance Company ( Rs. 2400 crore) , State Cooperative Bank Scam ( Rs. 500 crore ), OMFED Scam ( Rs. 8 crore
). Water Tax Scam ( Rs. 2000 crore), Quarter
Scam ( Rs. 4 crore), NREGA Scam ( Rs. 1000 crore), Chhatua Scam ( Rs. 1000 crore) Besides
that there are huge corruption and
irregularities starting Gram Panchayat to office of Chief Minister in the field of implementation of
various scheme and programme like Integrated Child Development Scheme,
Mid-Day-Meal, Public Distribution System, Indira Awas Yojana, Biju Pucca Gruha Yojana, Integrated Tribal Development Schemes, World-Bank supported projects, Plantation
programme etc.
It deserves to be noted here that these Scams
have been masterminded and engineered by the Ruling Class Ministers, MLAs, IAS
officers, Companies, BJD workers and their protégé. Though there has been public demand for
inquiry against the perpetrators of corruption mostly IAS officers, the Chief
Minister has tried his best to protect them.
For example, after expose of Dal Scam in 2010, Smt. Pramila Mallick, the
then Minister for Women and Child Development resigned at the instruction of
the Chief Minister. The Vigilance enquiry
reported involvement of 3 IAS officers Sri Pramod Meherda, Sri Manish Verma and
Sri Ambika Prasad Das in 700 crore-Dal Scam.
But Sri Nabin Patnaik did not
give sanction to Vigilance to
arrest them. Similarly, from 2000 to 2012, the State Vigilance
filed corrupt cases against 12 IAS officers and sought sanction from Chief
Minister. But CM refused to give sanction and the Vigilance remained silence.
Similarly,
after land scam expose by CAG about huge
irregularities and illegalities in
respect of allotment of land/plot to IAS
officers, Ministers, MLAs, Private Educational Institutions, Hotels by GA
Dept., BDA, CDA and OSHB, the State Govt. constituted Rask Force under
chairmanship of Dr. Taradatt, senior IAS officer in 2014. The Committee produced
the report In Nov. 2014 which was accepted by the Govt. in cabinet meeting on 18.12.2014. The Task
Force has recommended series of action against the people who have taken
multiple plots by filling false affidavit and under discretionary quota. Chief Minister has handed over this case to
State Vigilance. Though around 3 years have passed, the Vigilance has not arrested
a single man nor returned back a single
plot to Govt. fold. Similarly, the Crime Branch enquiry
into 70 acres- Ghangapatna Land Scam has ended in fiasco without
taking any action against BJD and BJP leaders.
Within period of last 15 years, 27 companies have not paid water tax to
State Govt. Water Resource Dept. under Chief Minister is sitting idle.
A
number of former IAS officers and present IAS and IPS officers who
enjoyed close proximity with Chief Minister and self-claimed blue-eyed
boy of the Govt. and involved in these scams are Sri Tarun Kanti Mishra, former Chief Secretary ( four plots from BDA, CDA and GA), Sri Bijay Shama, D.G., Crime Branch ( 3 plots from BDA, CDA and
GA), Sri Upendra Nath Behera ( 2
plots from GA, CDA), Sri Gagan Bihari Dhal ( 50 crore
Medhabruti scam), Sri Bishnu Prasad
Sethy ( OMFED Scam), Sri Pramod
Meherda ( 700 crore Dal Scam), Sri
Vishal Dev ( Multi-crore Land Scam), Hemant
Sharma ( Coal Scam and OPTCL Scam), Sri
Bijay Patnaik, former Chief Secretary
( 200 crore-OKCL Scam), Sri
Manish Verma ( Dal Scam) . Besides that Chief Minister and his Ministers
have protected many scamsters like Sri Achyut Samant, founder of KIIT/KISS who have illegally acquired 100 acres of
precious land in Chandaka industrial area and Patia area through fraudulent means
in connivance with corrupt bureaucrats.
In
case of OMFED the cabinet Minister concerned Sri Pradip Maharathy has written orders at the
behest of IAS officials to release scam money and punish those officials who
have raised questions against the scam. Two senior officials and AG have
clearly pointed about the scam in their reports but the Minister dared to
exonerate all. In case of OSCB JagneswarBabu was sent to jail, but the
concerned MD TK panda of OSCB got two term extension with huge perks and
benefits and the concerned secretary Bishnupada Sethty got lucrative positions
to head two departments .
Though Justice Shah
Commission recommended for CBI inquiry into Mining Scam, Both BJD Govt. and BJP
Govt. at centre are hand in glove to stop the CBI inquiry. The people of Odisha are ditched by both
these parties and left hopeless world. BJP leaders are maintaining ominous silence
over all these scams like Mining Scam. Land Scam etc.
Directorate
of Vigilance has been formed to investigate into all corruption ad
irregularities in administration and Govt. work. But at the instance of Chief Minister, the
Vigilance could not proceed to investigate into these scams. The Vigilance has been instructed to cover up
these scams. When the activity of the Vigilance was monitored through RTI,
Chief Ministers took over night decision to keep Vigilance out of purview of
RTI Act.
When
the Chief Minister has been trying to cover up all the Mega Scams and
protecting perpetrators of Crime, at the same time he is giving clarion call to
stop PC (corruption in development work) and instructed the administration to
form Vigilance Committee at district and block level to check it. We feel that
it is calculated design of Nabin Patnaik and his coterie to divert the attention of
the people from real issues i.e., Mega Scams
which has destroyed economic backbone of the country reducing poor to poorest of the world.
It
has been decided by Civil Society
Groups to carry forward this campaign at district and block level mounting
pressure on Govt. to enquire
into all scams. The 3-day
Dharana was led by Pradip Pradhan, Sudhir Mohanty, Pratap Sahu, Sachikant Pradhan,
Sanjukta Pangrahi, Abdul WALLI, Dibakar
Nayak, Jantra Prakhit , Ranju Mohapatra ,
Ashok Nanda, Debesh Das etc.
Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date- 6.8.17
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