Complaint on Scam,
Fraud, Forgery and Financial
Irregularities worth Rs. 600 crore of OSCB
filed in Odisha Likayukta
Bhubaneswar: 9.7.19, a Team of
RTI Activists filed complaint
case in Odisha Lokayukta seeking an urgent inquiry into multi-crore
Scam, financial irregularities, fraud
and forgery in Odisha State Cooperative
Bank and demanded stringent action against Sri
Bishnupada Sethy, IAS, the then
Management-in-Charge, OSCB and Mr.
Tusarkanti Panda, former Managing Director, OSCB and
other officials who have
masterminded these scams.
Since 2015, RTI Activists have
been exposing corruption, fraud and forgery in Odisha state Cooperative
Bank by filling multiple RTI
Applications to different offices. Earlier series of
complaints have been filed to different
authorities including office of
Chief Minister and State
Vigilance to enquire into the matter. In 2017, Dr. Damodar Rout, the then Minister for Cooperation, Govt. of
Odisha had written letter to
SP, Vigilance and Chief
Minister seeking an inquiry
into irregularities in OSCB. But office of Chief Minister sat
over the file for years together to suppress it.
As Odisha Lokayukta is the top autonomous and independent anti-corruption
agency in the state empowered to enquire into all cases of corruption, RTI Activists
Pradip Pradhan, Mrs. Sanjukta Panigrahi and Sudhir Mohanty filed complaint on
9.7.19 seeking an inquiry into it.
Odisha State Cooperative Bank
(OSCB) is the only wing of Government of Odisha engaged in crop loan financing
for boosting agricultural production. With a network of 17 DCCBs and around
2700 PACS and LAMPCS it serves 50 lakhs small and marginal farmers including 20
lakhs small rural depositors. It is also engaged in paddy procurement from
small farmers at MSP on behalf of OSCSC. It is a State partnered scheduled Bank
set up /registered under the Orissa Cooperative societies Act, 1962 baring
Regd.No. 29/CU dt. 2.4.1948 with State Govt. share capital contribution of more
than Rs 104 Crore. It’s main object is
to cater the credit requirement of the farmers, artisans and agrarian
communities in the rural sector. The total share capital of the Bank exceeds
Rs.400 crore and its total deposit would be around Rs.8000 crore. Though OSCB
operates its Banking activity as per provisions of Banking Regulation act and
RBI guidelines it is strictly amenable to the provisions of OCS Act,1962, OCS
Rules, 1965 and Bye laws of OSCB in regards to appointment, qualification,
remuneration and service conditions of employees.
RTI Activists drew attention
of Odisha Lokayukta about number
of financial irregularities like illegal payments of lakhs
of rupees to Sri Bishnupada
Sethy, the then Management-in-Charge,
illegal extension of service of Tusarkanti Panda, former MD, illegal
engagement of VSoft Company for CBS
softwire by flouting tender process
causing huge financial loss to
Bank, taking arbitrary decision to purchase Computer for PACS (
Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies), illegal sanction of Rs. 36 crores to Bijayanand Cooperative Sugar mill,
Bolangir, regular foreign travels of MD
and other officials without sanction of
the authority, arbitrary decision
for purchase of Mobile Banking
Van worth Rs. 6 crores, illegal interest
subvention claim through forgery of
documents from Govt. of India and Govt. of Odisha worth Rs. 500 crore , arbitrary selection
of Madras Printers for printing of RuPay card for
farmers etc.
Earlier, Sri Srikant Pakal, RTI
Activist had filed complaint in Lokayukta
seeking inquiry into scam of Sri Bishnupada Sethy during his tenure of
Management-in-Charge of OSCB.
Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date-7.9.19
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