Discretionary Quota allotment referred by BDA to Vigilance for Enquiry- Hanging in Balance

List of Discretionary Quota allotment referred by BDA to Vigilance for Enquiry- Hanging in Balance 

·         Total no. of 32  allotments under DQ has been referred by Bhubaneswar Development Authority to State  Vigilance  for enquiry.

·         Astonishingly, State  vigilance   has not  finished  a single inquiry  into it, though 3 years have passed.

·         It is State Govt. strategy  to  buy  time  in name of vigilance inquiry  with  ulterior motive to save the  culprits.

·         Most of DQ allot tees  are closed to power circle of BJD and Third Floor

·         In name of  vigilance inquiry  , Chief Minister is protecting  these land Mafias

·         Corruption and corrupts  are well-protected   by Nabin regime.

Dear friends

In view of CAG expose about huge irregularities and illegalities in respect of allotment of land/plot  in Bhubaneswar  and Cuttack by BDA, CDA, IDCO and General Administration Department ,  the State Govt. constituted  a Task Force  to review  details of allotment  and  make  recommendation  to the Govt.  On 3^rd  Nov., 2014, the Task Force submitted the report and on 18^th Dec. 14, the   State  cabinet passed  resolution accepting all the recommendations and released modalities  for  returning  back the land/plot  from the people  who have taken land under DQ by filing  false affidavit or multiple allotments  or through illegal means.  Later on, Chief Minister declared  to hand over   all the cases  for inquiry  by State  Vigilance.  In 2014 and 2015,  Bhubaneswar Development  Authority  has  handed  over  DQ allotment  cases  to State  vigilance  for inquiry.  Though  3 years have passed, the state  vigilance have not  finished  a single  inquiry  into the allotment cases (?).  The details of   DQ allotments  referred  to vigilance  for enquiry  is  as follows. This information has been obtained  under RTI from BDA  on 11.6.18.

Sl.No.	Name of the allottee	House/plot	Scheme Name	Remarks
1	Ambika Prasad Kanungo At-Dharmagatpur, Po-Sunagara, Dist-Cuttack	MIG-104 (c )	Ananta Vihar Housing scheme, Phase-II, Pokhariput	Allotment  changes in the name of Lubuna Dianan Mohanty  on 1.6.2009
2	Satyajit Mohanty Aradhana-2560, Kedar Gouri Park, PS-Badagada, BBSR	73 (C )	Prachi Enclave, Chandrasekhar Pur
3	Laxmi Bilasini Biswal Binayak Nagar, Mahanadi Vihar,  Cuttack	MIG-48	Pokhariput Housing  Schme, Phase-I,
4	Pranab Kumar Balabantaray Vill/Po- Bhotaka, PS- Dharmashala, Dist-Jajpur	HIG ( D)-E-09	Netaji Subas Enclave , Gadakan
5	Pratima Das Vill/Po- Bhotaka, PS- Dharmashala, Dist-Jajpur	Plot No.-42 ( C )	Prachi Enclave, Chandrasekhar Pur, Phase-II
6	Bimbadhar Kuanr, At/Post/Dist-Baragarh	Plot No.-180	Prachi Enclave, Chandrasekhar Pur, Phase-II
7	Mrs. Isa Mishra, A-10, Ground Floor, Lord Gunjan Palace, Rasulgarh, Bhubaneswar	HIG ( D )-01	Netaji Subas Enclave , Gadakan
8	Dr. Shailendra Ku. Tamotia, M-8, Chetakpuri, Lashkar, Gwalior, Madhyapradesh	HIG ( D )-G-09	Netaji Subas Enclave , Gadakan
9	Smt. Banalata Das At/Po- Charirakaba, Via-Kendupatna, Cuttack	Plot No- 167	District Centre Commercial Plot , Chandrasekhar Pur
10	Siba Brata Dash At-Peyten Sahi Buxi Bazar, Cuttack	264 ( C )	District Centre Commercial Plot , Chandrasekhar Pur
11	Renubala Sethy At-Kulantiragram, Channahat, Balipatna, Khurda	MIG-80	Ananta Vihar Housing scheme, Phase-II, Pokhariput
12	Bikram Kishor Arukh At-Agajhota, PO- Baunsalundi, PS- Bhanjanagar, Ganjam	HIG Duplex-02	Ananta Vihar Housing scheme, Phase-II, Pokhariput	Allotment  cancelled due to surrender  and reallottee to Sayed Firoj Ali
13	Arundhati Mohanty, At-Kamin Kutir, Post-Old Town, PS-Lanjigarh, Bhubaneswar	C-130	Lingaraj Vihar Hosuing Scheme, Phase-1, Pokhariput
14	Niranjan Behuria At-Gunthal, Post-Manpur, PS- Rajkanika , Kendrapara	D-50	Lingaraj Vihar Hosuing Scheme, Phase-1, Pokhariput	Change of allotment  in name of  Lily Tripathy  At/post- Arilo Sadar, Cuttack
15	Dr. R.S.N.Murty At-Berhampur, Post-Nabeen, P0/PS- Badabazar, Dist-Ganjam	217	Prachi Enclave plotted development Scheme, Chandrasekhar Pur
16	Dr. R.S.N.Murty At-Berhampur, Post-Nabeen, P0/PS- Badabazar, Dist-Ganjam	HIG ( D )-13	Pokhariput, Phase-1	Transfer to Sulochana Sahu , At/Post- Rajsunakhela, PS- Bolagarh, Dist-Khurda
17	Jnana Ranjan Dash At-Rasarasik Pur,Post-Athagarh, Dist-Cuttack	HIG-54	Lumbinin Vihar Housing Scheme, Chandrasekhar Pur
18	Sarita Agrawal, At/Post/Dist-Boudh	HIG-63	Lumbinin Vihar Housing Scheme, Chandrasekhar Pur
19	Suresh Prasad Padhy At/Post-Dist-Ganjam	HIG-S-08	Netaji Subas Enclave , Gadakana
20	Saheb Sahu. At/Post-Mulban, PS-Bhatli, Dist-Baragarh	HIG-129	Lumbinin Vihar Housing Scheme, Chandrasekhar Pur
21	Gayatri Singh At/Post-Laxmi Narayan Pur, PS/DIST-Kendrapara	56 (C )	Prachi Enclave plotted development Scheme, Chandrasekhar Pur
22	Pradeep Kumar Das, At-Gobardhanpur, Post-Bhusandapur, PS-Tangi, Dist-Khurda	HIG-110	Lumbinin Vihar Housing Scheme, Chandrasekhar Pur
23	Rabindra Nath Lenka, Vill-Tarat Sasan, PS- Salepur, Dist-Cuttack	HIG ( D )-B-02	Netaji Subas Enclave, Gadakana
24	Saheb Sahu At/Post- Mulban , PS- Bhatli, Dist- Baragarh	HIG-129	Lumbinin Vihar Housing Scheme, Chandrasekhar Pur
25	Ladu Patra At-Matimandap Sahi, Post/Dist-Puri	House No-26	01-02 Housing Scheme, Jayadev Vihar	Transfeered  to the name of Kaplana Padhi, At-Sahadapada. PS-Banki, Dist-Khurda
26	Subhransu Mohan Padhi At-Sahadapada, Post/PS-Banki, Dist-Cuttack	HIG-135	Lumbinin Vihar Housing Scheme, Chandrasekhar Pur
27	Debashish Sarangi, At-Rahama, Post- Baban, PS- Mahakalapara, Kendrapara	House No.-26	01-02, Housing Scheme, Jayadev Vihar
28	Pratap Kumar Samal At/Post-Kankili, PS-Talcher. Dist-Angul	247	Prachi Enclave, Phase-11, C.S.Pur
29	Sasmita Samantaray At-Mahanadi Vihar, Post-Nua Bazar, Cuttack	HIG-113	Lumbinin Vihar Housing Scheme, Chandrasekhar Pur
30	Bishnupriya Panigrahi, At-Madhusudan Pur, Post-Betada, PS- Basudev Pur, Dist-Bhadrak	HIG-D	Pokhariput Housing Scheme, Phase-1, Pokhariput
31	Digambar Sahoo, At/Post- Pingha, Via-Jenapur, Dist-Dhenkanal	MIG-72	Ananta Vihar Housing Scheme, Phase-III, Pokhariput
32	Sajal Kumar Moulik WN- 10, Parade Pania Sahi, Baripada, Mayurbhanj	S-1/1	Chandrasekhar Pur plotted Development Scheme, Chandrasekhar Pur

Pradip Pradhan

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Date- 13.6.18

A corrupt Police officer was caught red-handedly by Odisha Vigilance for taking bribe from RTI Activist

A corrupt Police officer was caught red-handedly  by  Odisha  Vigilance  for taking bribe from RTI Activist

On 12.6.18, a  corrupt police Pabitra Mohan Pradhan, Sub-Inspector, Begunia Police station of Khurda district, Odisha was caught red-handedly by Vigilance for taking bribe from Bikash Jena,RTI Activist.  

On 13.5.18., Sri Bikash was severely beaten up by BJD supported goons for filling number of RTI Applications to block and tahasil office to expose corruption and misappropriation of fund allocated  under ICDS, NREGA  Scheme. Then, on the next day he  filed FIR dt. 14.5.18 to the IIC, Begunia Police station seeking inquiry into  the matter and action against the culprits.   But the Sub-inspector did not register FIR rather misbehaved him and threatened him not come to police station further. He also used  very slang language   using name of his caste. On the other hand,  the same sub-inspector  immediately registered     a counter FIR filed  by the accused against  whom he had filed FIR and tried to arrest him.

 Then,  Bikash field case in both OHRC and Information Commission seeking direction to SP, Khurda to conduct an inquiry into his   allegation and direction to the IIC, Begunia police station to register his FIR and conduct an inquiry.  He had also demanded action against Sub-Inspector, Begunia Police station for misbehaving him using slang language.

Later on the said police officer asked Bikash to pay Rs. 5000 . So that he will not arrest him. In the meantime Bikash got succeeded in obtaining advance bail. Along with other RTI Activists, it was planned to arrest this police through vigilance case.  Accordingly vigilance  officials were  approached and detailed plan was chalked out to catch him. On 12.6.18,  he was caught by Vigilance officials while taking money  from Bikash.

Bikash Nayak can be contacted – M- 9777335758

Pradip Pradhan

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Date-12.6.18

RTI Activist was mercilessly beaten up, arrested and put behind bar in Angul

RTI Activist was mercilessly beaten up, arrested  and put behind bar in Angul district, Odisha

Pradeep Kumar Sahu, Recipient of  best volunteer award from Chief Minister, National Youth Awardee and  renowned RTI Activist  was  manhandled , then beaten up mercilessly  by  the forest officials of  DFO Office, Angul  on his visit  to the said office  to file RTI Application on 9.5.18. Later  he was arrested  by the police  on FIR lodged  by officials in connivance with police, but  his  first FIR was ignored  by the Inspector-in-Charge, Angul police station. On 11.6.18,  Sri Pradeep Sahu  has filed two petitions to Odisha Human Rights Commission and Odisha Information Commission seeking justice.

Details of incident leading to attack and arrest of RTI Activist

·         On 9.5.18, Pradeep  along with  his  Activist-friend Jitendra Samal  had gone to the office of Divisional Forest Officer, Angul  to submit RTI Application   and met Basudev Nayak, ACF  and discussed  with him about purpose of their visit. Time was around 9.15 AM. During discussion with ACF, they asked for information of other RTI Applications submitted earlier. It is to be mentioned here that  since huge corruption, irregularities  and misappropriation of  crores of rupees  sanctioned for plantation and forest development project is going on , Pradeep and local people  are using RTI to expose it  and they have also filed  a number of complaints to Director, Vigilance, PCCF, Odisha  for inquiry.  However,  having seen another RTI Application on another corruption issue,   Sri Nayak, ACF  got irritated and started rebuking them  using slang language ( Haireshala tume kuade asichha ………………).  Then he immediately shouted and called his staff to teach them lession. Immediately few staff of DFO office reached in the spot , gheraoed and started beating them black and white. They kicked like anything   and strangulated them.  Though they tried to retaliate them, they  could not succeed.    It continued for two hours. At last  the police reached and rescued them.

·         After reaching in police station, they  filed FIR in Angul Police station.  The Inspector-in-Charge received their  complaint but did not register the case. But they  were held up by the police in Police station.   

·         Just after few minutes of our FIR being filed,  Sri Basudev Nayak along with few staff reached  in the police station and  filed  counter FIR against Pradeep  leveling unnecessary  false charges  against them. He alleged that they put fist blow to his neck and Jitendra held his hands and threatened to murder him. Astonishingly, the IIC, Angul immediately registered their FIR and within hours produced them before the court of SDJM, Angul   who refused to grant bail and forwarded them to jail. They got released on bail after 20 days of custody.

·         Pradeep is social Activist. Since last few years, he along with his friends have been using RTI  to expose corruption and give justice to the poor people in Angul district.   He has been awarded Prakruti Mitra award by district administration for his outstanding work in  the field of protection of forest, While working with forest protecting groups, he  has come across  huge corruption and irregularities  in forest development project  and plantation.  To fight out corruption, he has been using RTI in different offices including DFO office.  

·         Being disturbed over his repeated expose about corruption and subsequent filling of plethora of complaints demanding inquiry, the staff of DFO  office and more particularly ACF have got vindictive and conspired to attack him several times. 9.5.18 was an faithful day for him to execute his conspiracy    and to take revenge against Pradeep and his friend Jitendra.  

·         Pradeep has filed complaint to OHRC and Odisha Information Commission seeking inquiry and quick action against the culprits.

Pradeep Sahu can be contacted  M-9937439848

Pradip Pradhan

RTI Activist

State Convener, Odisha Soochana Adhikar Abhijan

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