Huge public
money is misused by office of Chief Minister, Odisha, exposed under RTI.
Dear friends
RTI Application was submitted to
different departments seeking information about
details of expenditure made
towards advertisement made in different newspaper. In response to RTI Application, the PIO,
office of Executive Engineer, Nayagarh ( R&B) Division, Nayagarh provided
an interesting information dated 20.8.18 which is
presented below.
It was
decided by Govt. that
the Chief Minister would
inaugurate a newly
constructed Model Degree College
in Nayagarh . On 10.8.18., the Chief Minister without visiting
the place made a video
conferencing inauguration sitting
in secretariat. But Sri Ananta Das,
Minister for Higher Education, Sri Pinali Mishra, MP and Sri Arun Sahu, MLA rushed to the spot from Bhubaneswar ansd addressed
the inaugural function
organized for the same at Lathipada. This is
the programme which does not
require any advertisement,
as the video conferencing inauguration and inauguration function got due media coverage.
But it is interesting that , the Executive Engineer, Nayagarh ( R&B) Division, Nayagarh was instructed to place
fund for advertisement of the programme in newspaper.
The Executive Engineer spent Rs. 4,60,276.00 towards
advertisement of the said programme and
advertisement was given to Dharitri ( Rs.
98,532.00), Surya Prava ( Rs. 81,093.00), Prameya ( Rs. 75,577.00), Odisha
Baskar ( Rs.62,653.00), Odisha Express ( Rs. 61,296.00), Anupam Bharat ( Rs.
50,765.00), Susashan( Rs. 30,360).
It was not at all
required to spend such a huge amount of money for advertisement. The Govt.
is spending cores of rupees
towards advertisement without any reasons at the cost of state exchequer and just to highlight Nabin Patnaik , Chief Minister. Noting more than that. This is one of
thousands of cases of misuse of
money by politicians and bureaucrats.
Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date- 29.8.18
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