Special Audit Report on Land Scam suppressed by General Administration Dept. since 3 years

Special Audit Report on Land Scam suppressed by General Administration Department under Chief Minister, Odisha since 3 years, exposed  under RTI

1. In view of CAG report about  alleged irregularities in allotment of land/houses/flats byBhubaneswarDevelopment Authority(BDA), Cuttack Development Authority (CDA),Odisha State Housing Board (OSHB) and General Administration (GA) Department and IDCO and subsequent demand by Opposition parties  and Civil Society for CBI inquiry, the State Government constituted a  Task Force  on dated 2.8.2014  to review all the allotment of morethan one land/houses/flats to the members of the samefamily and allotment under discretionary quota to ineligible persons from 1995 to 2014 and submit its report within 4 months. 

2.  The Task Force led by Dr. Taradatt, Addl. Chief Secretary with the members such as Commissioner-cum-Secretary, H&UD Department and Special Secretary, Dept. of GA produced their report on 3.11.14. The report was placed before state cabinet on 18.12.14 and it was endorsed with   Action Taken Report   which was later on published in official Gazette on 30.1.2015.

3. After considering the recommendations, the cabinet inter alia has directed that the modalities of implementation of the report would be worked out in consultation with the Law department and the Advocate General within 90 days. On 6.5.15, after due consultation, the Govt.  finalized Modalities  for implementation of the recommendation of the Task Force.

4.  The Modalities prepared  by Govt. for implementation of the recommendations of  the Task Force  stipulates ( Para – vii)  that  the Finance Department  should conduct  special audit  in respect of  the left out  cases of multiple allotments  as recommended  by  Task Force  in Para 48(2) and to find out  the actual number  of discretionary allotment made  after 1.1.1995 as recommended  in Para  48 (5)  of the Task Force  and also of  allotment  made  after 1.1.1995 as has been recommended  in para 48 ( c)  and only after the special audit is completed  on all respected , the modalities  for taking action against  them  has to be prepared  as per  law. 

5.  RTI Application was submitted  to the PIO, Department of Finance seeking information about  details of Special audit conducted by Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha. As per information  supplied  under RTI on 24.1.18,  Special audit  Team  was constituted   as per  the letter  No. 29987/F dt. 21.11.2015.  As per office order dated 21.11.15., the Finance Deptt.  constituted  the  following audit team to undertake the special audit. These are as follows.

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 Ku. Bhoi, Auditor
CDA, Cuttack	Sri N. Maharana, AAO, Sri J.Dhal, Auditor Sri B.S.Behera, Auditor, Sri D.K.Kahali, Auditor , Sri Brundaban Baisakh, Auditor
Odisha State Housing Board, Bhubaneswar	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

6.                    The Audit Team have  completed  this special audit  and the same report  has been submitted in  2016 to the GA Dept.  for necessary  action  at their  end. It is disheartening  to note  that  though  special audit Report  has been  submitted , Chief Minister  has not taken any steps  for years  together.

7.                    The Special audit Report  has been suppressed  by Chief Secretary Office  to save top bureaucrats  involved in multi-crore land scam with tacit support from Chief Minister's office .

Pradip Pradhan

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Date- 18.8.18