Infants Deaths in Tribal Districts of Odisha

Infants Deaths in   Tribal Districts of Odisha

(Exposed under RTI)

                       No substantial Improvement in reduction of infant deaths in tribal districts of Odisha 

Much claim of BJD Govt. about  drastic  reduction of  infant  death  through  implementation of series of  programme  is false  and superfluous.

·         Over-all Infant  death  has  remained  stagnant in  these  tribal districts  despite  implementation of plethora  of programme .

·         It  shows  malnutrition and food  insecurity  is still high  and looms large in these  districts.

·         Huge pumping  of  fund  by Govt. has  not yielded expected  results.

·         More  intervention is required  to reduce infant  mortality  in the state.

Dear friends

Since  last  few years, the  State  Govt. has  given  top  priority  for  reduction of  infant  in Odisha  by  implementing  series of programme  with  investment  of huge  money  for  it.  To  understand progress of  Govt. effort  in the  field  of  checking infant mortality  and  result  of huge investment, RTI  Application was  filed  to CDMOs  of  10 tribal  districts  in which  child mortality  rate  is very  high.  The PIOs of office of CDMOs  of 5 districts have  provided information in January, 2019. Due  to  my  personal engagement  in  other works, I could  not  put  this  information in public  domain.  The  CDMOs  of  Bolangir, Malkangiri, Kondhamal, Rayagada, Kalahandi  have  not  provided  information.  Appeal  procedure  has been  followed to get  the  information which  will be shared  later  on. On 27.12.18.,  The  information sought  for  from office of Chief  District Medical Officers  is as follows.

i. Provide    information about  no. of  infants died ( upto age of five years) in the district ( year-wise)

ii. Provide name  of the programme implemented  to infant mortality  in the district.

iii. Provide total fund utilized to  check  infant death in the district ( year-wise).

iv. Provide total fund spent for Nutrition Rehabilitation centre ( NRC) ( year-wise)

The  information provided  by the  CDMOs  of the  5  districts  is as follows.

1.       Infant deaths in different districts (from 2014-15 to 2018-19)

Year	Total No. of infant and Child  deaths  upto age  of 05  years
	Koraput	Nuapara	Rourkela Govt. Hospital	Sundaragarh	SDH, Banai	Nabarangpur	Mayurbhanj	Kalahandi
2014-15	1246	720	110	759	10		453	1333
2015-16	891	698	128	651	4		390	1224
2016-17	994	709	127	445	9	1238	1261	1146
2017-18	888	575	124	561	6	1161	1198	1090
2018-19 ( till Dec.18)	1067	310	81	433	1	810	1040	898

2. Name  of  the programmes  implemented  to reduce  infant  death  in Odisha

a. Special New Born Care  Unit ( SNCU)

b. New  Born Stabilisation Unit ( NBSU)

c. Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre ( NRC)

d. Village Health  Nutrition Day ( VHND)- A programme  for  regular health  check up  of new born babies.

e. Home based New  Born Care ( HBNC).

f. IDCM

g.JSSK ( Janani Sishu Surakhya Karyakrama)

h. Sampurna

i. Lanour  Room standardization

j. NDD

K. Immunisation

l. New Born Care  Corner ( NBCC)

3. Expenditure  for  Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre ( NRC) in different  districts (  from 2014-15 to 2018-19)

Year	Expenditure  for NRC
	Koraput	Nuapara	Rourkela Govt. Hospital	Mayurbhanj	Nabarangpur	Kalahandi
2014-15	12,31,436.00	7,65,083.00	Total amount 4,63,899.00	10,60,000.00	N.A.	Not  provided by the PIO
2015-16	13,61,797.00	3,36,710.00		10,01,000.00	N.A.
2016-17	13,80,454.00	2,81,940.00		19,02,000.00	14,71,898.00
2017-18	12,15,822.00	4,31,598.00		19,01,000.00	15,93,795.00
2018-19	13,16,243.00	9,30,123.00		12,33,000.00	11,24,411.00

4.  Details of  fund  utilized  under  various programme  for  checking  infant  death   is as follows.

Year	Name  od districts  and total fund utilized (  in lakhs)
	Koraput	Nuapara	Sundargarh	Mayurbhanj	Nabarangpur	Kalahandi
2014-15	41.21	13.84	0	35.8		Not  provided  by PIO
2015-16	26.37	9.20	10,800.00	35.29
2016-17	24.54	11.34	41,000.00	19.02	211.05
2017-18	25.62	18.61	90,600.00	19.01	220.92
2018-19	22.75	19.49	87,400.00	12.33	448.29

Pradip  Pradhan

M-9937843482

Date- 28.5.19

Huge Diversion of CMRF for Aahaar Programme in Odisha

Huge Diversion  of CMRF for Aahaar Programme  in Odisha

( RTI Information dated 9.5.2019  from H& UD Department , Govt. of Odisha )

·         Though Aahaar Kendras  started from 1.4.2015,  the State  Govt. released  notification dt. 1.7.2015  in respect of  constitution of the General Body and the Executive Committee of  Odisha State  Aahaar  Society ( OSAS ).

·         But astonishingly, the 1^st General body meeting and Executive Committee meeting of Odisha State Aahaar Society was held on 5.2.19 , after around 4 years  of its constitution. These  bodies are  high-level bodies  formed  to  monitor the implementation of Aahaar programme and give strategic guidance  to District Aahaar Society.

·         A  sum of Rs. 128,76,14,000 has been released  from CMRF  for Aahaar  programme, a so-called  populist programme  of State Govt. for  creating  vote bank. Govt. could  have made budgetary provision  for  this programme without  diverting  fund from CMRF  which  is mostly  used  for giving financial support  to the needy  poor  people and render support  to the  disaster-affected  people. 

Dear friends

When  the State  Govt. gave a public  call  seeking  donation for Chief Ministers’ Relief  Fund to meet  Fani disaster  expenses, we   had appealed  the  people  not  to  give  any  contribution to  CMRF  by  making allegation  of  misuse  of  CMRF  fund  by  Chief  Minister, Odisha   and  requested  the people to  donate  directly to   the  affected   people  and NGOs  working with    a lot  of  hardship  in the  cyclone-affected  areas.

I am  presenting  a  test case  of  huge  misuse  of Chief Minister’s Relief  Fund for Aahaar Yojana, a populist programme  designed for  creating  vote bank  for Nabin Patnaik Govt.

On 15.3.19.,  I had  filed RTI  Application  to the PIO, office  of  Housing and Urban Development, Govt. of Odisha  seeking  information about  details of  Aahaar programme,  details of  fund sanctioned from  CMRF, Funds  mobilized  from different sources etc. On 9.5.19., the PIO supplied the information which is as follows.

1.       Aahaar Programme  (  A cooked hot meal @Rs.5.00 at Aahaar Kendras) commenced from 1^st April,2015 with 21  Aahaar Kendras, up-scaled to 111 Kendras in 2016-17 and currently operating with 119 Kendras . Besides  that  the  feeding  programme at night  has  commenced  from 31^st December , 2018 in 56 Aahaar Kendras  located in the Hospitals.

2.       To  manage  Aahaar  programme, Aahaar Society in name of Odisha State  Aahaar  Society ( OSAS)  at state level  was formed  under  chairmanship  of  Chief  Secretary, Govt. of Odisha  with  the responsibility  of giving strategic guidance  to District Aahaar  Societies  at   district level in planning, managing and monitoring  the Aahaar  Scheme in the urban areas to address  hunger of needy  urban poor by provisioning of cooked hot meals at affordable price by tapping of donors  and mobilise  funds from Corporate, industries, philanthropic donors, , voluntary  organisations,  residential welfare  associations, volunteers as well as well-wishers dovetailing of funds or benefits  from other  Govt. programme.

3.         The  State  Govt. has increased the  cost of meal from Rs. 20/- to Rs. 23.00.

4.       Source  of funding towards AAHAAR PROGRAMME  upto 31.3.2019.

Fund  received  from /Date	Amount  in Rs.	Total in Rs.
Special Problem Fund , Planning & Convergence Department  dated 13.3.2015	3,20,00,000	3,20,00,000
M/s Aditya Birla Group dated 27.9.16	1,47,30,000	10,52,20,000
M/s Aditya Birla Group dated 16.11.16	2,25,00,000
M/s Aditya Birla Group dated 7.3.17	2,14,40,000
M/s Aditya Birla Group dated 14.3.17	10,00,000
M/s Aditya Birla Group dated 12.9.17	3,97,50,000
M/s Aditya Birla Group dated 21.3.18	1,50,00,000
M/s Aditya Birla Group dated 21.3.18	2,35,00,000
M/s Aditya Birla Group dated 21.3.18	12,50,000
M/s Aditya Birla Group dated 9.7.18	1,85,00,000
M/s Aditya Birla Group dated 5.11.18	42,00,000
M/s Aditya Birla Group dated 20.11.18	1,70,00,000
M/s Aditya Birla Group dated 20.3.19	3,68,26,000
M/s Aditya Birla Group dated 20.3.19	16,74,000
IDCO dated 19.4.17	1,00,00,000	1,34,11,011
IDCO dated 26.4.17	34,11,011
Chief Minister Relief  Fund  dt. 26.10.16	20,00,00,000	128,76,14,000
Chief Minister Relief  Fund  received by OSAS dt. 3.10.17	20,00,00,000
Chief Minister Relief  Fund received by OSAS  dt. 13.7.18	5,39,00,000
CMRF  fund directly sent to District Aahaar  Society  on 6.1.16	43,24,44,000
CMRF  fund directly sent to District Aahaar  Society   dated  3.3.16	19,62,70,000
CMRF  fund directly sent to District Aahaar  Society  on 3.3.16	50,00,000
CMRF  fund directly sent to District Aahaar  Society   on 18.1.19	20,00,00,000
M/s Crackers India Alloys Ltd. dated 17.9.18	1,00,00,000	3,00,00,000
M/s Crackers India Alloys Ltd. dated  17.9.18	1,00,00,000
M/s Crackers India Alloys Ltd. dated 5.12.18	1,00,00,000
Runguta Sons Pvt. Ltd. dated 27.12.18	10,00,00,000	10,00,00,000
Total		156,82,45,011

5.        Fund  released  to District Aahaar Society / City Aahaar  Society  by 31.3.19

Sl.No.	Name of DAS/ CAS	Total
1	Angul	3,74,50,224
2	Bolangir	4,13,52,500
3	Balasore	4,71,73,827
4	Baragarh	3,72,16,500
5	Boudh	1,47,82,500
6	Bhadrak	2,48,15,000
7	Cuttack	10,23,71,630
8	Dhenkanal	4,36,31,873
9	Deogarh	16,12,7500
10	Gajapati	2,46,57,500
11	Ganjam	18,67,27,169
12	Jagatsingh Pur	3,57,15,000
13	Jajpur	4,57,15,000
14	Jharsuguda	3,56,24,000
15	Kalahandi	3,58,57,000
16	Kandhamal	4,07,52,362
17	Kendrapara	2,61,19,233
18	Keonjhar	6,44,32,500
19	BMC, Bhubaneswar	7,90,32,997
20	Khurda	5,66,50,329
21	Koraput	4,94,60,493
22	Malakangiri	2,71,27,500
23	Mayurbhanj	6,31,91,012
24	Nawarangpur	3,42,20,500
25	Nayagarh	2,86,95,500
26	Nuapara	3,33,05,000
27	Puri	4,27,65,000
28	Rayagada	3,64,15,000
29	Sambalpur	9,58,44,412
30	Subarnapur	4,08,75,000
31	Sundargarh	9,34,11,636
Total		154,15,15,697

Pradip Pradhan

M-9937843482

Date- 13.5.19