Inquiry
into any scam under Nabin Patnaik Govt. is an unending process
Neither
enquiry conducted nor action taken against the culprits, exposed under RTI
Dear friends
Department of Co-operation, Office of Registrar,
Cooperative Societies and Odisha State
Cooperative Bank are
epicenter of corruption and scam under Nabin Patnaik Govt. in Odisha. Dr. Damodar Rout, former Minister for Cooperation has alleged of Rs. 800 crore scam in Odisha State Cooperative Bank .
Though he ordered
for inquiry into, it was suppressed
by corrupt officials at the
direction of Chief Minister’s office.
There was
allegation of corruption,
irregularities filed against
Sri T.K.Panda, the then Managing Director, OSCB in the Department of Cooperation,
Govt. of Odisha and NABARD, Bhubaneswar.
NABARD forwarded this complaint to the department for inquiry. On 18.11.17,
the Department of Cooperation
constituted an inquiry committee
under chairmanship of Sri Biranchi Narayan Mohanty, Auditor General of
Cooperative Societies along with two members Sri Prasanna Kumar Mishra, Deputy
Secretary, Sri Surya Kumar Mishra, Deputy Secretary. The Committee was instructed to complete the inquiry
and submit report by
10.12.17.
In reply to Assembly question UDAQ No. 45,
Sri Surya Narayan Patra said that inquiry report into abovementioned allegation
has been received. As
this allegation was made by
public about corruption into OSCB, The public has right to know about
the inquiry report and action
taken in this regard. Magnitude of
corruption and corrupt officers needs to be exposed publicly , as they have
misappropriated public money at
large. A clean and transparent Govt. like BJD Govt. should
put it in public domain for knowledge
of the people of the state who
are paying money (tax) to run this
Govt. Keeping it in view, on 27.3.18, I had filed RTI Application to the PIO, office of Cooperation, Govt. of Odisha seeking
copy of the inquiry report and action taken in this regard referring reply of Surya NARAYANA PATRO, Minister.
The information was repeatedly
denied to me on 17.4.2018
and finally on 10.9.18 citing the
following ground of
section 8 (1)(j) of the RTI Act
Section of 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act says
“ Information which relates to
personal information the
disclosure of which has no
relationship to any public activity or interest
or which would cause unwarranted
invasion of the privacy of the individual unless the Central Public
Information Officer or State Public Information Officer or Appellate Authority , as the case may
be is satisfied that the larger public interest justifies
the disclosure of such
information”.
Taking clue from this
provision of the RTI Act, the Department
has denied to provide the
information. In fact this inquiry report is
not a personal information.
This is a allegation of corruption against the employees
who are servants of the people
by the public. So the
public have right to know what is the outcome of the
inquiry . If the concerned officer
is guilty , the people must have
right to know about it. If he is not involved in corruption and allegation was false, the
people have also right to know his honesty. The allegation of corruption
against any officer is
within administrative
structure of the Govt. of which
the Cittizens are masters . This
is not at all personal information
not about family, wife and children. The intention behind to deny the
information is to suppress the inquiry
and protect the culprits , corrupt
officials.
Similarly, On 30.5.18, I had filed RTI Application to the PIO, office of Registrar, Cooperative
Societies seeking information about details of action taken from the day one till May 2018 on letter
No. XI-AQ-62/17 10489 dt.
30.6.17 sent by Joint Registrar, Cooperative Societies (Credit) to the Deputy
Registrar and Assistant Registrar of Cooperative Societies with regard to
enquiry into allegation of
misappropriation of Rs.100 crores in Odisha State Coopeartive Bank along with copy of the note
sheet, information about details of
reasons thereof for which the enquiry
could not be conducted. It deserves to
mention here that there was complaint
of Rs. 100 crores loot by
officials of OSCB in 2017.
Finding
denial of information, I made
first appeal on 11.17.18 to the
First Appellate Authority, office of Registrar, Cooperative Societies seeking
direction to the PIO for supply
of the information. On 16.8.18., The FAA heard the case and
mentioned that the inquiry is under
progress. It
means there is no inquiry or
inquiry is suppressed in the name of inquiry. This is is a
strategy taken by
Nabin patnaik Govt. to suppress all enquiries in the name of inquiry.
All the
corrupt officials including office of
Chief Minister is trying
hard to suppress all inquiries and protect all corrupt officials.
Pradip
Pradhan
RTI
Activist
M-9937843482
Date-
19.1.19
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