Drive
for Eviction of Encroached Land by Govt. Squad
is Farce in Bhubaneswar, capital City of Odisha
Dear friends
Encroachment of precious land by powerful people, Educational
Institutions, MLAs, Ministers, private persons, business houses is very common
phenomena in Bhubaneswar.
Thousands of acres of Govt. land has
been encroached by the people close to power circle for years together. Achyut Samant of KIIT has illegally
acquired and through fraudlent means more than 100 acres of land in
Patia and Pathargadia Mouza.
CAG Report on General and Social Sector presented
to Govt.of Odisha in 2014 has
exposed how valuable land has been encroached by
Govt. officials, corporate
houses in Bhubaneswar. Being pretty aware about extent of
encroachment of huge land, the State
Government has hardly taken steps
to recover the land. On the other hand, the GA Dept.
under control of Nabin Patnaik,
Chief Minister, Odisha since 18
years is seen silent spectator to huge quantity of land encroached by the
powerful people without taking any
steps against them.
In 2015, RTI Application
was filed to Department of General Administration,
Govt. of Odisha seeking information about details of land encroached , detected , evicted and
recovered in Bhubaneswar . The information was consciously denied by the PIO. However, after order of Odisha
Information Commission, the PIO dt. 12.2.18
and 22.3.18 has provided the following
information.
1. On
15.9.2014, a Central Enforcement Monitoring
Committee ( CEMC) has been constituted for eviction of encroachers. The said committee
has been formed under the
chairmanship of Vice-Chairman,
Bhubaneswar Development Authority comprising
Commissioner of police, Bhubaneswar, Director of Estates, GA Dept., Commissioner, Bhubaneswar Municipal
Corporation, Secretary, Odisha State
Housing Board as the members for
monitoring the eviction of
encroachments.
2. Under
the said committee, 6 Enforcement Squads have been constituted out of which 5 Squads are entrusted
to detect encroachments within
BMC area and the rest one is entrusted to detect encroachments beyond BMC area but
within BDA area. Besides that,
an eviction Squad consisting of
representatives from GA Department, BDA, BMC , Commissioner of Police and other user agencies is entrusted
to evict the encroachers from the
Government land as per the schedule
of eviction programme.
3. GA
Dept. has provided contradictory statistics about extent of encroached land and amount of land evicted. On 12.2.18,
the PIO stated that Ac. 110 .000 of Govt. land have been taken over by GA Department to its control after eviction of the encroachers. The total extent of
Government land under General Administration Dept. is 21,511 acres out of which Ac. 478.314 of Govt.
land has been encroached within BMC area.
4. But
on 22.3.18, the PIO has provided the
following statistics about total land
encroached and evicted by GA Dept.
|
Year
|
No. of demolition programme
executed
|
Extent of Govt.land detected
|
Extent of Govt. land free from encroachments
|
|
2014-15
|
128
|
Ac. 841.936
|
Ac. 32.645
|
|
2015-16
|
123
|
Ac. 322.707
|
Ac. 45.063
|
|
2016-17
|
103
|
Ac. 154.213
|
Ac. 56.646
|
|
Grand Total
|
354
|
Ac. 1318.856
|
Ac. 134.354
|
Comments
1.
From the above statistics, it was observed
that t he State Govt. has recovered just 10% of
the total land encroached in
Bhubaneswar.
2.
The State Govt. i.e., the Eviction Squad have miserably failed to evict the land encroachers despite several complaints filed
by the common people.
Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date-9.4.18
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