Advocates engaged to fight cases in NGT and fees paid by Govt. of Odisha

Advocates engaged to fight cases in NGT and fees paid  by Govt. of Odisha

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RTI Application was filed  to Department of Forest and Environment , Govt. of Odisha seeking information about  details of advocated engaged  by Govt. of Odisha to fight out cases on different issues in National Green Tribunal  and fees paid to them. The information provided  by the PIO on 29.11.17 is as follows.

Sl.N0.	Name of Advocate	Case No. assigned to the said advocate	Subject matter of case	Year of engagement
1	Pravat Kumar Muduli Additional Standing Counsel, O/o- AG, Odisha	O.A. No. 06/2015/EZ	Operation of Calcined Coke	2015
		O.A. No. 31/2015/EZ	Brick Klins	2015
		O.A. 49/2015/EZ	CRZ Matter	2015
		O.A. No. 53/2015/EZ	Hotel Association, Odisha	2015
		O.A. No. 78/2015/EZ	Plastic Waste	2016
		O.A. No. 82/2015/EZ	Wetland Conservation and Management	2016
		O.A.No. 124/2015/EZ	Country Liquor	2016
		O.A. No. 66/2017/EZ	Dumping of Project waste  in Public Place	2017
		O.A. No. 110/2013/PB/85/2016/EZ	CRZ Violation	2016
2	Deepak Kumar Pani Additional Standing Counsel, O/o- AG, Odisha	O.A. No. 98/2015/EZ	Country Liquor	2015
		O.A. No. 105/2015/EZ	Stone Crusher	2015
		O.A.No. 111/2015/EZ	Brick Klins	2016
		O.A. No. 121/2016/EZ	Paryavaran Surakhya Samiti	2016
		O.A.No. 123/2015/EZ	Country Liquor  venders in Ganjam	2016
		O.A. No. 45/2017/EZ	Pollution due to  Coal Tar Pitch	2017
3	Samapika Mishra Additional Standing Counsel, O/o- AG, Odisha	O.A. No. 116/2015/EZ 70/2017/EZ	Stone  Quary Operation  in Sanctuary	2016
		OA. No. 70/2017/EZ	Stone Quarry  operation in Sanctuary	2017
4	Bidesh Ranjan Behera Additional Standing Counsel, O/o- AG, Odisha	O.A. No. 139/2015/EZ	Illegal operation of Brick Klins	2016
		O.A. No. 51/2016/EZ	Idol Immersion	2016
		O.A.No. 141/2016/EZ	Himadri Chemicals	2016
5	Soubhagya Kumar   Nayak Additional Standing Counsel, O/o- AG, Odisha	O.A. No. 135/2017/EZ	Operation of Brick Klins	2017
		O.A. No. 136/2017/EZ	Operation of  Brick Klins	2017

Fees paid to each advocate  is as follows.

Sl.No	Name of advocate	Details of fees paid	Other allowances  and benefits like travel expenses, Hotel Bill	Remarks, if any
1	Pravat Kumar Muduli Additional Standing Counsel, O/o- AG, Odisha	Rs. 2,25,000.00	Rs. 39,571.00	Rs. 2, 64,751.00
2	Deepak Kumar Pani Additional Standing Counsel, O/o- AG, Odisha	Rs. 1,30,000.00	Rs. 3,13,610.00	Rs. 4,43,610.00
3	Bidesh Ranjan Behera Additional Standing Counsel, O/o- AG, Odisha	Rs. 1,29,802.00		The break-up of the above-mentioned  amount  could not  be shown separately  as the concerned file  has been endorsed to Law Dept.  for concurrence of subsequent Bill
4	Soubhagya Ketan  Nayak Additional Standing Counsel, O/o- AG, Odisha	Nil	Rs.1615.00	Rs.1615.00

Sample of  a Bill claimed by Advocates  for Reimbursement

20.3.2017	Taxi fare from Cuttack to Bhubaneswar Airport	Rs. 1200.00
	Taxifare from kolkatta airport to self accomodation	500.00
	Daily fee for absence from Headquarter	5000.00
	DA	380.00
21.3.17	Taxi fare from Self accommodation to NGT	500.00
	Taxifare from NGT to Self accommodation	500.00
	Daily fee of absence from Head quarter	5000.00
	Taxifare from Bhubaneswar Airport to Cuttack	1200.00
	Total	14,600.00

Pradip Pradhan

M-9937843482

Date-30.11.17