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 1st
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 1st
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 31st
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
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