Total No. of 445 Govt. quarters illegally occupied in Bhubaneswar

Total No. of 445 Govt. quarters illegally occupied by Govt. employees in Bhubaneswar with revenue loss of Rs. 7 rores

Dear friends

All of you might be aware that Odisha High Court hearing a PIL case  {W.P. (C)(PIL) No.   10537 of 2013} filed  on 2.5.13  by    me  has given direction to State Govt. on 11.12.13 seeking  report about steps taken to vacate the quarters illegally occupied  by retired Govt. officials including IAS officers, former MLAs, former Ministers, MPs in Bhubaneswar within four weeks. Sri Khirod Rout, senior advocate is pleading the case on behalf of me.  I have filed the case seeking direction for eviction of the unauthorized occupants from govt. buildings and premises as soon as possible and take appropriate legal action against them and the negligent authorities, to recover the arrear outstanding house rent with 18% interest per annum along with    the reduced amount,    to form a committee to examine the pay scale of employees and revise the house rent    accordingly.

Though one year has passed, the State Govt. has produced any report to the Honourable  Court.

Interestingly,  to know about any development or any steps taken by the State Govt.  to evict  the retired employees or employees, Ministers, ex-Ministers, MLAs, ex-MLAs   from the Govt. quarters  illegally occupied by them,  I  had filed RTI Application to the PIO, Dept. of General Administration on 26.11.14. The information sought for is as follows.

i. Provide information about details of  name of Ministers, MLAs, ex-Ministers, Ex-MLAs, Govt. officers and employees, Ex-Govt. employees ad Officers in Bhubaneswar  and details of peal rent or any rent pending against them.   

ii. Provide name of the Ministers, MLAs and officers occupying double quarters in Bhubaneswar

iii. Provide name of the employees, ex-MLAs, ex-Ministers, Ex-MPs  who have already returned the quarter  and amount deposited against the rent.

On 8.1.15, the PIO has supplied the information which is as follows.

1.       Total number of  445 Govt. quarters have been illegally occupied by Ministers, MLAs, ex-Ministers, Ex-MLAs, Govt. officers and employees, Ex-Govt. employees ad Officers in Bhubaneswar. List has been provided by the PIO.

2.       Total revenue loss to the State Exchequer is Rs. 6, 79, 11,245.00 (Six crores Seventy Nine lakh Eleven thousand Two hundred Fourty Five only).

3.          The Ministers, MLAs and officers occupying  double Govt.  quarters are as follows

Sl.No	Name, Designation and Department of Occupants  who is occupying Govt. quarters	Details of quarters
		No.	Type	Unit
1	Sri Arun Kumar Sahoo, Minister	5/1	MLAD/S	IV
		15	5R	IV
2	Sri Jogendra Behera, Minister	2/1	MLAD/S	IV
		2	VIIISGO	VI
3	Sri Bikram Keshari Arukh, Minister	1/2	MLAD/S	IV
		4	VIIIMR	VI
4	Dr. Pradeep Kumar Panigrahi, Minister	4/3	MLAD/S	IV
		13	VIR	VI
5	Sri Sananda Marandi, Deputy Speaker	2/2	VIID/S	III
		4/4	MLAD/S	IV
6	Sri Narasingha Mishra, Leader of Opposition	13/2	MLA-F	IV
		2	VIII	I
7	Dr. Nrusigha h.  Sahu, MLA	15/2	MLAD/S	IV
		1.2	VIID/S	II
8	Dr. Prafulla Majhi, MLA	11/2	MLA-F	IV
		16	VIR	VI
9	Sri Debasish Samantaray, MLA	3/1	MLAD/S	IV
		6	VII	I
10	Sri Maheswar Mohanty, MLA	4/1	MLAD/S	IV
		4/2	MLAD/S	IV
11	Sri Subrat Tarai, MLA	17/4	MLAD/S	IV
		9/2	VIC	1
12	Sri Bhujabala Majhi, MLA	10/2	MLAF	IV
		7	VIIC	I
13	Sri Damodar Behera, Photo Animation Graphic Assistant, SIET, BBSR	25	E	NA
		12/3	E6	SSA
14	Sri Hrushikesh Mohapatra , Ferro Printer, O/O chief Architect	3/6	2RF	IX
		14/1	F	IX
15	Sri Srikant Routray, ASO, OLA	16	2 RB Rd.-6	IX
		11/4	F	C.R.P.
16	Sri Kailash Ch. Patra, Peon, Home Dept.	26/10	F	CSP
		80	F	VIII
17	Sri Prakash Ch. Tripathy, Asst. Commandant, SOG	2/4	3R(F)	KA
		4/1	3R(F)	KA
18	Sri Trinath Nayak, O/0- Director of Textiles , Odisha	28/2	F	CSP
		3/4	F	Museum area

4.       From 1.1. 2014 to 30.11.2014, total number of 64 Govt. quarters  have been  vacated by illegal occupants  like  Ex-MLAs, Ex-MPs, Ex-Ministers and Ex-Govt. employees  with recovery of Rs. 26, 28, 634.00 ( Twenty Six Lakh  Twenty Eight thousands  Thirty Four rupees only)

Remarks

I.          When  the public discourse and public protest is going on  against  illegal  occupation of land  and  allotment of multiple plots illegally  to the  influential people, bureaucrats, Ministers,  the State Government is trying hard  to cover up these irregularities  and  protect illegal occupants.

II.        Due to inaction of the Govt.  to protect the public properties, the Ministers, MLAs and Govt. officials including peon  have dared to illegally occupy Govt. quarters  causing huge revenue loss to State Exchequer.

III.       The pending Bill of 7 crores rupees against illegal occupants is calculated  as per Govt. rate. If it is  calculated  as per market price ( rent of the quarters ) with interest ,  It will be more  than twenty crores.

Thanks

Pradip Pradhan

M-9937843482

Date-14.1.15