Lokayukta,
Odisha issued Notice to 6 officers of
Jajpur district on allegation of corruption and misappropriation of Fund
amounting Rs. 23 crores sanctioned
for development of Nagada village under Jajpur
district.
Dear friends
Hearing a Complaint petition (
Registered as LY 455/19) filed
by Pradip Pradhan, RTI Activist
about allegation of corruption
and misuse of Rs. 23 crores
fund sanctioned for development
of Juang Tribes in Nagada village under Sukinda Block of Jajpur
District, Lokayukta, Odisha, had
issued notice on 25.10.19 to 6
Districts Officials ( Project Director, DRDA, Executive Engineer, RD-1,
Jajpur Town (4), Executive Engineer, Electrical, Jajpur Road, Executive Engineer,
RWSS, Jajpur, BDO, Sukinda, District Social Welfare Officer, Jajpur to reply
within six weeks and fixed date on
9.12.19 for next hearing of the case.
On RTI Query, District administration,
Jajpur has supplied
details of utilization of Rs. 23
crores by various
line departments in Nagada
Village . Having obtained this
information, a five-member Civil Society
Group of Right to Food Campaign,
Odisha had visited Nagada on 8.6.19. for monitoring
of works and physical verification of utilization of fund.
During field inspection, the
Team found very half hazard work, low quality of houses
constructed under Biju Pucca
Gruha Yojana, Electricity connection
without supply of electricity, No supply of drinking water , failure of food security programme
to enhance their food
and livelihood security and huge
misappropriation of fund in construction of work.
Preparing a comparative chart , Sri
Pradip Pradhan filed a complaint petition on 14.10.19 on Lokayukta, Odisha seeking
an independent investigation into
huge corruption and
misappropriation of fund in Nagada village.
It
deserves to mention here that Nagada, a revenue village and
habitation of Juang Primitive Tribal Groups is surrounded by mountainous forest
from all sides touched headline of
newspapers on 12th July 2016 about death of 19 infant
of Juang tribes
( Primitive Tribal Groups) . This news
followed widespread criticism
and series of public protests by different opposition political parties and Civil Society Groups against State Govt. and its failure to
protect life of
tribal children in the state. In face of
public criticism, the State
Govt. made a number of
intervention engaging officials
of various departments like Health
and Family Welfare Dept., women and Child Development Dept., Panchayat
Raj Dept., Environment and Forest Dept., Revenue Department to check malnutrition, improve health
condition of malnourished children, ensure livelihood
and road connectivity to the
village. Huge amount
of fund of different departments
was also spent for improvement of livelihood
of the villagers of Nagada village. Revenue Divisional
Commissioner, Central Division was
appointed as chairman of monitoring team to
monitor all the Govt. activities in Nagada village.
By
Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date- 1.11.19
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