Land scam by Odisha State Housing Board - A status

Inquiry into corruption and irregularities in allotment of land/plot by   Govt.  of Odisha is proved  as  farce and deception, exposed through RTI

( Case of Odisha State Housing Board)

Though 3 years  passed, not a single land allotted illegally  has been recovered by Nabin Patnaik Govt. even nor  a single man arrested  for taking land  through fraudlent means.  Task Force Committee   had provided list of  thousands of people  who have taken land illegally  during  BJD Govt. This is how  a self-claimed  transparent  and corruption-free Govt. perpetuates  corruption and  protects illegal land grabbers in Odisha.

Shall  we, the people of Odisha again voted  this Govt. to power ?

·        In 2014, CAG exposed in its Audit Report ( General and Social Sector-2012)  about huge illegalities and irregularities  in  allotment of land/plot   in Bhubaneswar  and Cuttack  by by Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA), Cuttack Development Authority (CDA)  and General Administration (GA) Department and IDCO.

·       Following release of  CAG report, all the opposition  political parties  and Civil Society Groups   organised rally and demonstration demanding  CBI inquiry into land scam.

·      On 2.8.2014,  being pressurised,  the State Govt. constituted a Task Force  under chairmanship of Dr. Taradatt, the then  Secretary of Dept. of Revenue and Disaster management, Govt. of Odisha  to review all the allotment of more than one land/houses/flats to the members of the same family and allotment under discretionary quota to ineligible persons from 1995 to 2014 and submit its report within 4 months.

·      The Task Force produced the report  on 3.11.2014.

·      The State Cabinet  accepted and endorsed  all recommendations made by Task Force i.e., cancellation of all allotments under discretionary quota , cancellation of all plots taken  by  the people by  filling false  affidavit and multiple plots. The State Govt.  handed over all the cases  to State Vigilance to enquire into the matter.

·      State Vigilance has not yet been able  to arrest a single man  involved in land scam.

·      Nabin Patnaik, Chief Minister is trying hard to  cover up this scam.

RTI Application was filed  to the PIO, office of Odisha State Housing Board  seeking information about  details of action taken  against the people  who have taken land illegally or filling false affidavit   and details of land recovered  from them.  On 3.10.2017, the PIO  has supplied the  information which is as follows.

1.       The  following officers  who have been allotted  house under Discretionary quota and through lottery   are as follows.

Sl.No	Name of officers	Year of allotment
1	Sanjib Kumar Mishra, IAS	2004
2	Satish Gajbhie, IPS	2011
3	Chandrasekar Kumar , IAS	1998
4	Madhusudan Padhi , IAS	1998
5	Saroj Kumar Jha , IAS	1998

2.       The following persons  have applied  to OSHB to return  their plot  as they have taken  multiple plots  are  as follows.  But astonishingly,  though 3 years have passed, OSHB is  sitting idle  and not taking  any step to recover the land from the allottees  who have taken  plot by filling false affidavit.  It shows  how Odisha bureaucracy is trying hard to cover up the whole issue  and patronising  land grabbers.

A.      Sajal Kumar Moulik

B.      Pranab Balabantaray, MLA

C.      Snigdharani Sahu.

3.       Within period of  3 years, OSHB  has issued notice to  66 allottees who have taken   land under Discretionary quota  and  24 allottees   who have taken  multiple plot by filling false affidavit. These people are as follows.

Show-case notice issued to the allottees who have  been allotted houses under Discretionary quota by  the then Ministers  for  Housing and Urban Development
Sl. No	Name and address	Sl. No.	Name and address	Sl.No	Name and address
1	Sri Bibhudatta Das C/O- Lalit Mohan Das Arobinda colony BJB Nagar, Bhubaneswar	2	Tukuni Sahu Girl’s High School Para Titilagarh, Bolangir	3	Prafulla Sahu At/post-Gop, Puri
4	Manmath Nath Samantaray S/o-Upendra Nath Barik At-Madana, Post-Naindipur, Dist-Kendrapara	5	Ramesh Behera LP-617, Prasanti Vihar, Sikharchandi, Patia, Bhubaneswar	6	Rosalini Dash Plot No.- 845/4320, Fishing Tank, Laxmisagar, Bhubaneswar
7	Sanjib Kumar Patra, S/O- Ramesh Ch. Patra, Flat-C-2/110, Lake View Apartment , BBSR	8	Kishor Ch. Mohapatra S/O- Padmanav Mohapatra At-Kuansh, Post/Dist- Bhadrak	9	Sandhyarani Jena W/o- Sudhindra Mohan Jena Plot No- 1536/B, CDA , Sector-6, Cuttack
10	Jagabandhu Muduli MIG-18, Housing Board Colony, Aiginia, Pk-1, BBSR	11	Gagan Bihari Sahu, S/O-Banchhanidhi Sahu, At-Thakurpatna, Post/Dist-Jagatsingh Pur	12	Nabin Kishore Mohanty MIG-10, Housing Board Colony, Aiginia, BBSR
13	Dasarath Das S/O-Managobinda Das MIG-70, Housing Board Colony, Aiginia, BBSR	14	Bhabani Prasad Mohapatra At-Naripur, Post/Dist-Bhadrak	15	Prasanna Ku. Sahoo At/Post-Kantilo, Dist-Nayagarh
16	Prafulla Ku. Deo At/post-Nadiabhonga, Kalinga Nagar, BBSR	17	Ashok Ku. Das S/O-Nrusingha Ch. Das Ar-Arua, Po-Kadalibana Dist-Kendrapara	18	Biswanath Puhan MIG-11, Housing Board Colony, Aiginia, BBSR
19	Kalinga Keshari Mohanty MIG-24, Housing Board Colony, Aiginia, Ph-1, BBSR	20	Joseph Pradhan At-panganaju, Po-Mallikapadi, G. Udayagiri,  Kondhamal	21	Deepak Barada At/po-Bhapuur, Dist- Nayagar
22	Pravakar Nayak S/O- Dasarathi Nayak At-Karatali, Post-Kalamba Dist-Ganjam	23	Rabinarayan Parida At/Post-Indipur, Dist-Khorda	24	Deepak Ranjan Sahu At-Jhatiasahi, Post-JajpurRoad, Dist-Jajpur
25	Sanghamitra Muduli HIG-1-12, Satyasai Enclave, Aiginia, BBSR	26	Saswati Biswal W/O- Jyotisankar Biswal At/Post- Banapur, Dist-Khorda	27	Maheswar Parida HIG-11-445, Satyasai Enclave, Aiginia, BBSR
28	Zeetoo Patnaik S/O- Padma Ch.Patnaik At/Post-Arisal, Delanga Puri	29	Kanchanabala Nayak At-Nima sahi, Post- Buxibaxar, Dist-Cuttack	30	Panchadeb Dubey S/o- Achaiber Dubey A-114, Dumduma Ph-v, BBSR
31	Snigdharani Sahu, W/O- Saroj Kumar Sahu At-Banamali Pur Patna, Via-Khandapara, Dist- Nayagarh	32	Sanjib Kumar Mishra, IAS d/2- 308, Vinaya Mark, Chanakya Puri, New Delhi	33	Dharmesh Kar Flat No-E-303, Sriram Vihar Apartment, Nayapali, Bhubaneswar
34	A.J.Thomas Flat No- 303, Jagannath Apartment, Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar	35	Saroj Kumar Sahu S/O- Raghunath Sahu Bhabanagar, 3rd lane, Berhampur, Ganjam	36	Ambika Prasad kanungo Qr.No.- D-11/1, Unit-8, Post-Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar
37	Akshaya Kumar Swain S/O- bairagi swain, At-Kunjiapatna, Post-Nuapalamhat, Dist-Cuttack	38	Kailash Ch. Acharya At-Dayanidhipur Sasan, Post-  Narua, Gop, Puri	39	Sanjukta panigrahi w/o- R. Panigrahi LIG-35, Nandan Enclave Kalarahanga, Post-KIIT, Patia, Bhubaneswar
40	Debadatta Dash S/o-Motilal Dash At/Post-Kusumagandha Dist-Mayurbhanj	41	Pranab Ku. Balabantaray S/o- Kalpataru Das Dharmashala Jajpur	42	Bikash Ranjan Sahu At/Post-Gudiapali, Begunia, Khorda
43	Muralidhar Mallick S/O-Basudev Mallik HIG-6, Aiginia, Housing Board Colony , Bhubaneswar	44	Suranjan Nayak S/O- Jagabandhu Nayak At/Post-Pakhar Dist-Balasore	45	Dibakar Acharya S/O- Bansidhar Acharya At-Baraput, Dist-Cuttack
46	Rama Ch. Tripathy S/O- Nityanand Tripathy At/Post-Sadashiv Pur Dist-Dhenkanal	47	Debashis Patnaik S/O- Dasarathi Patnaik At/Post-Sanapadar Begunia, Dist-Khurda	48	Pramod Kumar Parija S/o-Bira Kishor Parija At-Kherash, Post/Dist-Jagatsingh Pur
49	Chandra Sekhar Bal At/Post-Ario, Jaguleipara, Dist-Kendrapara	50	Subal Meher S/O- Abhimanyu Meher At/Post-Kandhakel  gaon Dist-Bolangir	51	Godabarish Sahoo S/O- Brundaban Sahoo Aiginia, Bhubaneswar
52	Sajal Kumar Moulik C-2/110, Lake View Home,  Kalinga Stadium Road , BBSR	53	Gopal Krustan  Dangua AGM, NABARD Paralakhemundi Gajapati	54	Mahendra Prasad Behera S/O-Kusha Behera At/Post-Sirapur, Sora, Balasore
55	Justice Bijay Krustan Patel , Ambedkar Enclave Unit-VI, BBSR	56	Anajn Kumar Das Housing Board Colony, Khandagiri, BBSR	57	Bhagaban Das & Smt. Pratima Das At-Narayan Pur, Post- Angulei Dist-Kendrapara
58	Justice Ratnakar Dash 670, Pocket-E, Mayur Vihar,  Phase-II, New Delhi	59	Iswara Ch. Gajendra At/Post-Malipada Dist-Khorda	60	Dibakar Mohapatra Sec-2/569, Niladri Vihar, BBSR
61	Sarat Ch. Hota At-Puruna Someswarpur Satyabadi, Puri	62	Sankarsan Sahu At-Belarpur Post-Debidwar Dist-Jajpur	63	Smt. Reba Chakrabarty C/o-S.N.Chakrabarty Salt Lake City Kolkatta
64	Manoj Kumar Bisoi At/Post-Jagatpur Cuttack	65	Priyabrat Dash At-Santipara Post- Amrutamanohi Dist- Kendrapara	66	Bijay Kumar Patnaik K-2, Kalpana Road Bhubaneswar

Show-case notice issued to the allottees  having multiple  allotments  in their name
Sl. No	Name and address	Sl. No.	Name and address	Sl.No	Name and address
1	Ahalya Sahu W/o-Duryodhana Sahu Housing Board Colony, Dumduma, BBSR	2	Manasi Dei W/O- Sadhab Minz HIG(S)-124, Maitree Vihar Bhuabneswar	3	Pravat Kumar Mohanty S/O-Khetrabasi Mohanty N-1/337, IRC village Nayapalli, BBSR
4	Nihar Ranjan Dash S/O-Pravakar Dash At-Chhatilo, Post-Harianta Dist-Cuttack	5	Sarat Ch. Dash HIG(S)-81, Maitree Vihar, C.S. Pur, BBSR	6	Mamata Mohanty W/o- Kanungo barada  Mohanty NIT Campus, Rourkela
7	Mahendra Kumar Sahu S/o-Batakrustan Sahu Sidhi Vihar, Khandagiri BBSR	8	Niranjan Sahu S/O-Muralidhar Sahu GRIDCO Colony, Bhoi Nagar, BBSR	9	Surendra Nath Tripathy S/O- Premnath Tripathy HIG(S)- 98, Maitree Vihar C.S.Pur, BBSR
10	Sukanti Dash W/o-Janaki Ballav Mishra At/Post- Taradapara Nimapara, Dist-Puri	11	Shakti Prasad Acharya S/O-Bira Kishor Acharya Professor Para, Cuttack	12	Samir Ranjan Nayak At-Erada, Post-Galadhari Dist-Jagatsingh Pur
13	Prakash Kumar Tripathy S/O- Dharanidhar Tripathy Toshali Apartment, Satya Nagar, Bhubaneswar	14	Birendra Kumar Mishra S/O- Girish Ch. Mishra  B-003, Ambedkar Enclave , Unit-VI Bhubaneswar	15	Sajal Kumar Moulik S/o- Lokendranath Moulik Lake view Home, Kalinga stadium, BBSR
16	Ajit Kumar Tripathy Plot No- 369/2688 Damana Square C.S.Pur, BBSR	17	Nibedita Tripathy  Plot No- 369/2688 Damana Square C.S.Pur, BBSR	18	Birendra Kumar Patnaik At-Gadavihar Sonepur
19	Mamata Panda W/o-Ranjan Kumar Panda MIG-1-13/48, BDA Colony C.S.Pur, Bhubaneswar	20	Basudev Mallik S/o-Khati Mallik Lp- 506	21	Basudev Mohanty S/o-Jayakrustan Mohanty Kuinta Bhawan Arundoyanagar Cuttack-12
22	Laxmipriya Mohanty W/o-Sadasiba Mohanty Jalasarapara, Jamugaon, Jagatsingh Pur	23	Ambika Prasad Kanungo Qr. No-D-11/1/, Unit-8, Post-Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar	24	Mahendra Kumar Das S/O-Gobinda Ch. Das At/Post-Rahania, Dist-Bhadrak

Comments

A.      There are  many ministers, MLAs and Officers  who have taken houses  in name of their relatives  and also fake names  which  could not  be traced out.   Readers are requested  to bring to our notice  about   name of allottees  who have taken  houses  under DQ or  through filling false affidavit.

B.      It is very  interesting  that though 3 and half year  passed, the State Govt. has not taken any action against the allottees who have  illegally taken houses.

Pradip Pradhan, M- 993784482

Date-28.10.17