False information about Disbursement of money to Chit Fund depositors disseminated by officials of Finance Department, Govt. of
Odisha, exposed under RTI.
·
It
proves how Odisha bureaucracy still
suffers from colonial hang-over and maintain colonial secrecy.
·
Transparent
Govt. claimed by Chief Minister is big
hoax.
Dear friends
A few months back, a news
was covered by media that the
State Govt. has started disbursing money to
Chit Fund depositors whose money was looted
by Chit Fund Companies. It is 40,000
crore Chit Fund scam engineered by
Nabin Patnaik Govt. This is one of
major scams ever history of Odisha witnessed.
Having gone through the news, RTI
Application was submitted to Department of
Home and Finance Department, Govt. of
Odisha seeking the following information
by Dec.2018.
· Information about total no. of Chit fund
depositors identified by the Govt. in the state (
district-wise) .
· List of Chit fund depositors who have been
returned back money By the Govt. as per the following format
|
Name of district
|
Name of
depositors with address
|
Total
amount returned back to him /her
|
Remarks
|
· Details of source from
which money is disbursed to Chit fund
Depositors.
· Total money has been
disbursed to chit fund depositors by the Govt.
· Details of property of
different chit fund companies has been
auctioned and total money received by Govt. From
auction .
A.
The RTI
Application submitted to the PIO , Department of Home on
4.1.19 was transferred to Dept.
of Finance to provide information.
On 24.1.19, the PIO, Department of Finance has
responded that “ as the information sought
for are related to the
matters pending before hon’ble Commission of
Inquiry, Hon’ble Designated Court, CBI and CID-CB ,
Odisha , supply of the same is prohibited under the law.”
B.
Then, on 7.2.2019, I made first appeal
to the First Appellate Authority ( FAA) , Dept. of Finance to
provide me the information. On 27.3.19, the FAA heard the case and passed
the order. In his order, the FAA
has mentioned that “ in the case of Rose Valley Group of Companies, the
Hon’ble Designated Court has ordered
refund of attached properties to Small
Depositors only. The Hon’ble Court has
ordered to file an action taken report after disbursement is complete.
Disbursement is going on in the
field and no report regarding action taken
has been received”.
C.
This
is sleeping statement of FAA to keep
information secret. I have sought
information about details
of source from which money is disbursed to
Chit fund Depositors and total money disbursed to chit fund depositors
by the Govt. It means how much money has been sanctioned by the Dept.
and source of
money and details of disbursement.
The FAA remained silence over it.
D.
To verify the authenticity of
information published in news
papers and Finance Department, RTI
Application was submitted to office of
ADM of 10 districts to get the
information about details fund
sanctioned by State Govt. and money disbursed
to depositors and name of depositors
whom money disbursed.
E.
The reply of many
PIOs of
different offices of ADM opened
pandora’s Box. It exposed lie of Finance Dept. On 25.2.19., the PIO, office
of Collector, Deograh provided copy
of letter No. 11943/
FIN-DIP-CORFUND-0002/2018 dt. 2.4.18 issued by Finance Department, Govt. of
Odisha. The letter containing
Annexture-1 under subject head ( Allotment of Funds from Corpus Fund) shows
total amount of Rs. 3,05,21,070.00 has been sanctioned to 30
districts to disburse money to Chit Fund depositors. The Finance
Department has also issued guideline
for disbursement of money. Deogarh district has disbursed Rs.1,27,000.00
to only 14 Small Depositors.
F.
The question comes, if the Finance Department has released
the money to all districts for
disbursement to Small Depositors,
what was the problem to provide me
the same information as sought for under RTI Act. The Finance Dept.
still maintains secrecy about disbursement
of the money to Small Depositors.
G.
Just releasing
Rs. 3 crores, the State Govt. made a big hala gola that disbursement started
to Chit Fund depositors which is
not fact
I make fervent Appeal to all
to use RTI to
verify authenticity of any information disseminated
by Odisha bureaucracy which is most
corrupt system and infamous in Odisha.
Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date- 21.4.19
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