Special Audit Report on cases of Multiple allotment of land gathering dust in Office of CM since two years.

Special Audit Report on cases of    Multiple allotment of land/house /Flat  gathering dust in Chief Minister Office since two years.

This is sorry state of affairs of Best Administrator Awardee of India

Dear friends

After  expose  by  CAG( Comptroller and Auditor General of India) about huge irregularities  in allotment of land/plot/flat by BDA/CDA/GA/Odisha State Housing Board and followed  by mass demonstration  by opposition political parties  and Civil Society Groups demanding CBI inquiry into it, the Chief Minister constituted  Task Force   headed  by Dr. Taradatt, IAS on 2.8.14 to review all allotments of more than one land/plot/flat to the members of same family and allotment under discretionary quota  to ineligible persons. The Task Force Committee produced the report on 31.10.14.

Following Recommendations of Task Force, the State Govt.  came out with Action Taken Report  which was passed by State Cabinet meeting held on 18.12.14.  On Point No. 7 of ATR , it is mentioned  that “ List of multiple allotments pointed out  by Task Force  has been made on limited information supplied by BDA.CDA and OSHB. Finance Dept. therefore will conduct a special audit of all left out cases of multiple allotments as recommended  by Task Force in para 48(2). Action should be taken by the concerned authorities against such allottees.

Keeping it in view, RTI Application was submitted to the PIO, Dept. of Finance, Govt. of Odisha seeking information about  details of steps taken  by Finance Dept.  for conducting  special audit  of all left out  cases of multiple allotments  as recommended by Task force. Name of the officers involved in conducting special audit.

On 24.1.18, the PIO has  supplied the following information.

1.       As per letter No. 29987/F dtd.21.11.15, special audit on cases of  multiple allotments of land/House/Flat by BDA/CDA/OSHB /GA  Deptt.  In connection with recommendation of Task Force  during period  from 1.1.1995 to 31.3.15  was conducted  by  the audit personnel  of Finance Dept.

2.       The Members of the Audit Team were  as follows. The Audit  was supervised by Sri G.C. Sahoo, consultant.

Name of the organisation	Name of Audit Personnel
BDA, Bhubaneswar	Sri S.K.Ray, AAO, Sri P.K.Chakra, Auditor Sri B.K.Das, Auditor. Sri A.K.Swain, Auditor Sri Akshaya Kumar Bhoi, Auditor
CDA, Cuttack	Sri N. Mohapatra, AAO, Sri J.Dhal, Auditor Sri B.S.Behera, Auditor, Sri D.K.Kahali, Auditor Sri Brundaban Baisakh, Auditor
Odisha State Housing Board	Sri S.C.Behera, AAO, Smt. S.L.Mishra, Auditor Sri H.S.Swain, Auditor, Sri Dillip Kumar Das, Auditor
GA Department , Bhubaneswar	Sri B. Samantaray, AAO, Smt. M. Nayak, Auditor Sri S.K.Pradhan, Auditor

3.       The Audit started  their work from 23.11.15 and to report on 30.11.16. The Audit Teams were given 30 working days to complete the work.

4.       The Audit team produced the report to GA Department  in 2016.

Comments

1.      Though two years passed, the Audit report is gathering dust  in GA Dept. headed  by Chief Minister.

2.      In the meantime,  the present Chief Secretary  has conducted two review meeting  of  progress of ATR in respect of  recommendation of Task Force.

3.      In both the review meetings, the Chief Secretary has not  discussed  about special audit report and nor taken any action.

4.      Inquiry into irregularities in allotment of land/plot is just eye wash exercise  and designed  to cheat the people.

5.      Though 3 years have passed, not a single plot or land has been recovered from the people who have taken multiple plots and illegally land by filling false affidavit or plots under DQ.

Pradip Pradhan

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Date-22.2.18