IAS officers continuing more than 3 years in same post in Odisha

 

IAS officers continuing  more than  3 years in same post in Odisha

Dear  friends

RTI Application was  filed  to the PIO, Dept. of GA & PG , Govt. of Odisha seeking  information about IAS officers presently serving more than  3 years  in  same post. On 7.1.21, the PIO has supplied the  following  information.

Sl.No.	Name	RS	Year of Appointment in Govt.	Post  position  more than three years
1	Shri Vijay Arora	R.R.	1991	Principal Secretary to Govt. , Public Enterprises Dept.
2	Dr. Saurabh Garg	R.R.	1991	Principal Secretary to Govt. Agriculture & Farmers’ Empowerment Deptt.
3	Shri Deoranjan Kumar Singh	R.R.	1993	Principal Secretary to  Govt., Dept. of Panchayat Raj and DW
4	Shri G. Mathivathanan	R.R.	1994	Principal Secretary to Govt. H &UD Deptt.
5	Sri Vir Vikram Yadav	R.R.	1996	Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Govt. Food Supply  and Consumer Welfare Dept.
6	Shri Sanjay Kumar Singh	R.R.	1997	Commissioner-cum Secretary, Skill Development & Technical Education Dept.
7	Smt. Subha Sharma	R.R.	1999	Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Handlooms, Textiles and Handicraft Deptt.
8	Smt. Sujata R. Karthikeyan	R.R.	2000	Commissioner-cum-Director, Mission Shakti, Dept. of WCD and Mission Shakti
9	Shri Temjenwapang Ao	R.R.	2000	RDC (South Division)
10	Shri V. Karthikeyan Pandian	R.R.	2000	Private Secretary to Chief Minister, Odisha
11	Smt. Shalini Pandit	R.R.	2001	Mission Director, National Health Mission
12	Shri Prafulla Chandra Pradhan	S.C.S	2005	Additional Secretary to Govt. , Home Deptt.
13	Shri Benudhar Behera	S.C.S.	2005	Additional Secretary to Govt. Rural Development Dept.
14	Dr. Suresh Chandra Dalai	N.S.C.S.	2005	Addl. Secretary to H&UD Dept. –cum-Director, OUHM
15	Ms. Roopa Roshan Sahoo	R.R.	2006	Additional Secretary to Chief Minister
16	Shri Rabindra Kumar Mishra	S.C.S,	2006	Addl. Commissioner, Consolidation & Settlement, Sambalpur
17	Shri Sangramjit Nayak	S.C.S.	2007	Director, Municipal  Administration & Ex-officio Addl. Secretary to Govt. , H &UD Deptt.
18	Shri Gyan Ranjan Das	S.C.S.	2007	Collector, Bhadrak
19	Dr. Brundaban D	R.R.	2010	Collector, kondhamal

 

Pradip Pradhan

M-9937843482

Date- 24.1.21

Horrible Performance of Shashiprava Bindhani, former SIC, Odisha

 

RTI-based Monitoring  of Performance of ShashiPrava  Bindhani , Former State Information Commissioner ( From June 2015 to June 2020).

·        Ms. Bindhani has  devoted only 13 days in a month   for  hearing  of the case.

·        Only 26% of cases disposed   out of  total no. of cases  fixed  for hearing by Ms. Bindhani.

·        Only 58 cases disposed  by her per month ( 4 cases per day).

·        Ms. Bindhani has received Rs. 3800/- per  disposing a single case

·        Cost for  disposal of a single case is Rs. 3800.00 taken by Ms. Bindhani

1.        Cost per day of hearing of the case is Rs. 15,000 taken by Ms. Bindhani.

2. ·     Ms. Bindhani has imposed penalty only in 10 no. of cases out of 3499 cases disposed.

3. ·      Percentage of imposition of penalty in total disposed cases is less than 0.0005.

Dear  friends

As part of our  campaign  to monitor  activities  of public authorities  as empowered under RTI Act , Sri Maheswar Mohanty of Mayurbhanj  district  has  filed RTI Application in the  office  of Odisha Information Commission seeking information about performance  of Sashiprava Bindhani  who completed  her  5 yars tenure as Information Commissioner in June,2020. On 15.10.20, the PIO supplied the  following information.

1.       Year-wise Salary and allowances received by Shashiprava Bindhani  former State Information Commissioner

Year	Amount  ( In Rs.)
2015 (From June 2015)	11,28,897.00
2016	21,50,900.00
2017	22,27,200.00
2018	31,80,240.00
2019	30,42,000.00
2020 ( upto  June)	16,07,875.00
Total	1,33,37,112.00

 

 

2.      No. of  Complaint and Second Appeal caes heard and disposed  by Ms. Shashiprava Bindhani, SIC

Year	Total no. of days devoted   for hearing	Total no. of Complaint and SA cases heard	Total no. of Complaint and SA cases disposed of	Remarks
2015 ( June to Dec.)	87	911	125	She joined  in Commission from June 2015.
2016	166	2298	420
2017	189	3311	818
2018	185	3156	918
2019	188	3494	798
2020(Upto to June)	46	913	420
Within five years	861	13,172	3499

 

3.       As per  the section 20(1) of the RTI Act, the Commission is empowered to impose penalty on erring PIOs. But Ms. Bindhani has imposed penalty on PIOs only in 10 cases out of 3499 disposed cases within 5 years.

 

4.        As per  the section 20(2) of the RTI Act, the Commission is empowered to recommend disciplinary proceedings against  the PIOs who repeatedly violates RTI Act. But astonishingly, Ms. Sashiprava Bindhani has not recommended  disciplinary proceedings  against erring PIOs.

 

5.       As per section 19(8)(b) of the RTI Act, the Commission can award compensation  to  the appellant/ complainant for loss  suffered  due to denial of information by the PIO. But Ms. Bindhani has not awarded  a single pie  compensation to any aggrieved citizen.

                Pradip Pradhan

               M-9937843482

             Date-23.1.21