Conspiracy
for shifting of Regional Office of Central Warehouse
Corporation from Bhubaneswar to Patna
Odisha High
Court granted stay against execution of order of CWC, New Delhi
Dear
friends
Central
Warehouse Corporation, New Delhi ( a Govt. of India undertaking) functions
under the administrative control
of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food
and Public Distribution System
having its corporate office at New Delhi with 13 regional offices across the
country. Bhubaneswar Regional Office of CWC is one of them which started
functioning from 1990 in Odisha. As many
as 21 Ware-house centres are there in 15 districts of Odisha under the control of
CWC Regional office, Bhubaneswar. The operational capacity of the Odisha Region
is about 3.48 lakh MT which is ordinarily done through Warehouse centres.
Warehouse
is a place used for storage of foodgrains and other notified commodities by storing
through out the year and releasing them as and when required. Food
Supply Corporation of India , Odisha Civil Supply
Corporation Ltd. are major depositors
of
food grains for storage in warehouse
house go-downs. Odisha Regional
office caters need of the people efficiently, ensures timely delivery of food-grains
from its go-downs . It is a profit-making institution since 5
years. The State Govt. has provided land at various
places for construction of godowns from time to time to enhance storage
capacity of foodgrains.
On
26.7.19., the Govt. of India
has taken decision to merge Bhubaneswar
Regional Office with
that of Patna , capital of Bihar without
citing any reasons. It means Bhubaneswar Regional office will be closed down
and operate from Patna Regional office. This arbitrary decision of
Central Govt. was challenged
in Odisha High Court by Pradip pradhan, RTI Activist and
Member of Advisory body
of NHRC on Right to Food. Sri
Pradhan has pointed out that economy of Odisha depends
on agriculture. Farmers produce different type of food-grains in
different season. Warehouse centres
provides space for
storage of their
food grains for their future
requirement and helps a lot
in supply of food-grains
at the time
of natural calamity. The
support of Govt. of Odisha for strengthening and enhancing storing capacity
of Godowns is remarkable. This
Regional office has become a profit-making institutions
since last five
years and caters to the
need of the state and adjoining
states like Andhra Pradesh and
Chhatisgarh. If Bhubaneswar Regional
office is shifted to Patna, a lot of
problem will arise . At first it will
be expensive for the depositors to run
to Patna
office to sort their
issues. Connectivity to
Patna from Odisha will be another
problem , as Bihar does not
have port facility. Supply of
food grains from warehouse inside the state
to nearby places of other
states through Paradip Port facilitating large public will be stopped. Efficient monitoring
of warehouse godowns, timely release
of foodgrains will no doubt hamper. By the way in due
course of time the whole godown system
will collapse within few years leading
to handing over of
it to private bodies
for management.
On
16.8.19., hearing WP( C) No. 14130/2019 , the two-member Division bench of
Odisha High Court
has granted stay
order on the decision of
Central Govt. for shifting
Bhubaneswar Regional office of
CWC to Patna and issued
notice to Managing Director, Central Warehouse Corporation, New Delhi and Secretary, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution System seeking
response by 17.9.19 , day
of further hearing. Sri Jyoti Patnaik , advocate and Sri Aswani Kumar Karmi, advocate are pleading
this case in the
High Court.
Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date-17.8.19
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