Plot Allotment Tragedy in Odisha-3

INR 251 crores revenue loss to State Exchequer due to undue benefits given by General Administration Dept., Odisha  to Private Institutions in Odisha  (within 2000 to 2012)

The Report of Performance Audit of CAG on “ General and Social Sector “ ( volume-2) made from 2000 to 2012  has exposed    revenue loss of Re. 251 .00 crores  to State Exchequer due to undue benefit ( illegal)  and huge concession granted to Private organisations, Institutions, Individuals, hotels, Govt. organisations by the Department of General Administration in respect of allotment of land  to these organisations. I present herewith name of few prominent organisations   which have been given undue benefit in terms of  fixing less premium amount against the market price resulting in huge loss of state exchequer.                                                                                                      (in Crores)

Name of Organisation/ Individual/Institutions	Mouza	Year of allotment	Area (acres)	Premium paid	DSR ( per Acre)	Premium as per DSR	Loss of Premium
CYSD, Bhubaneswar  led by Sri Jagadanad Mohanty ,Former State Information Commissioner	Jayadev Vihar, Unit No.-16	2000	1.016	0.51	1.43	1.45	0.94
KIIT, Bhubaneswar	Patia	2006	26.970	6.76	1.50	40.46	33.70
Bhubaneswar Eye Research Institute	Patia	2004	10. 000	o.50	1.09	10.90	10.40
Cabana Hotel Management Pvt. Ltd.	Dumduma	2007	7.541	2.64	2.32	17.50	14.86
Hotel Rashmi Plaza	Jayadev Vihar	2008	1.610	1.21	5.00	8.05	6.84
ITC, Sonar Bangla Hotel Division	Dumduma	2008	5.124	1.79	1.50	7.69	5.90
Advance Medi care and Research Institute ( AMRI), Aiginia	Aiginia	2007	5.000	1.75	1.70	8.50	6.75
Sikhya O Anusandhan	Ghatikia	2006	15.000	3.75	0.53	7.95	4.20
Narayan Hrudalaya	Dumduma	2008	5.973	2.08	1.10	6.53	4.45
Asian Hearth and Research Centre	C.S.Pur	2008	4.160	1.04	3.00	12.48	11.44
Nuclear Medicine ( Utkal Health Centre)	C.S.Pur	2008	2.500	0.88	3.00	7.50	6.62
Care Hospital Private Limited.	C.S.Pur	2008	2.500	0.88	3.00	12.48	11.44
Dr. R.K.Panda MD, Bombay, Cardiovascular surgical PVT. Ltd.( Addl. Land)	C.S.Pur	2006	3.600	0.90	4.44	15.98	15.08
Medirad Tech India	Jayadev Vihar and C.S.Pur	2000	1.397	0.07	0.56	0.78	0.71
		2000	1.029	0.05	5.60	5.76	5.71
		2005	0.168	0.04	3.00	0.50	0.46
ODM Public School, Bhubaneswar	Patia	2009	1.646	0.82	5.00	8.23	7.41
Sikhya 0 Anusandhan	Ghatikia	2009	4.600	1.15	0.80	3.68	2.53
Bhubaneswar Club	Ghatikia	2007	5.000	1.25	0.53	2.65	1.40
Apeejay Surendra Group	Ghatikia	2008	5.000	1.75	0.80	4.00	2.25
Hotel Arya Prava	Jayadev Vihar	2008	0.294	0.22	5.00	1.47	1.25
M/S Laxmi Franklin Hospitality & Pvt. Ltd.	Bomikhal, Unit no.12	2006	1.000	0.45	1.74	1.74	1.29
Vivekanand Rock Memorial	Jagamara	2008	0.481	0.17	2.00	0.96	0.79
Posco India Ltd.	Bharatpur	2008	1.700	0.43	0.64	1.09	0.66

 Pradip  Pradhan, M-9937843482

05.09.2014 

Plot Allotment Tragedy in Odisha-2

Neo-Colonial Land-grabbing Mania

During colonial regime, the Britishers adopted various dirty tricks like waging war, offering bribe, hatching conspiracy and instigating one against another to conquer India. The same tactics was earlier followed by Mughal Emperors during feudal period to expand their rule by capturing  the Hindu Kingdoms in India. In the neo-colonial period, the corporate houses are seen adopting all illegal and fraud means by influencing national Govt. to grab invaluable land at any cost. Sri Achyut Samant, Mentor of KIIT is no way different from them which has been explicitly exposed by Comptroller and Auditor General of India  in its report  entitled “ Performance Audit of CAG  on General and Social Sector”.

Sri Samant  has adopted all types of fraud, forgery and illegalities to capture most valuable and precious Govt. ( public land) Land in Bhubaneswar to build up his empire in the  name of the people and state.  I do present herewith series of cases studies  of his malpractice, irregularities in respect of grabbing land violating all norms, values and ethics.

Case Study- 1: Misutilisation of land by KIIT purchased through BIFR( Board of Industrial and Financial Reconstruction) resulting in a loss of Rs. 51 crores.

KIIT purchased a piece of land of 16.200 acres from Magnetix India Pvt. Limited (6.00 acres) and Indo Maxwell Limited (10.200 acres) through the official Liquidator, Odisha High Court. In case of Indo Maxwell Limited liquidation case, the Honourable High Court specifically instructed (July 2006)  in Misc case No. 78/2005 that the transferred land should be utilised as per the terms and conditions of the original lease agreement, i.e., industrial purpose only.

But, in blatant disregard to the orders of the honourable court, KIIT was found utilising the land for running a school. No action was taken by IDCO for cancellation / resumption of land resulting in loss of Rs. 51 crore (calculated on the bench mark valuation of the cost of land).

Case Study- 2: Illegal regularisation of mutual transfer of land to KIIT resulting loss of Rs. 73.75 crores to State Exchequer

Section 34 of the IDCO Act 1980 stipulated that in order to promote rapid growth and development of industries, the Board could carry out a six-monthly review of the allotted plots and resume the unutilised  portion of the allotted land by giving a notice to the allottee of the industrial estate. Further, as per IDCO circular (September 2004), no mutual transfer of industrial property was permissible and  in the event of any allotted property mis-utilised as educational/ technical/ management/other professional institutes, the allotment was required to be cancelled.

But astonishingly, it was found that  the allotted industrial plot of 15 . 516 acres to different companies like PGL Plastic Tubes Limited, Kalinga Software Limited, B. Engineers and Builders Limited, Utkal Tubes, Package India, Mangalachand Telecom Pvt. Ltd., New Life Health Care, Arya Aluminium Ltd., Mineral Rock Products, Minu Concrete Works etc. which were found lying vacant and misutilised  was tarnsferred to KIIT instead of resumption of land by IDCO.  The High Level Land Allotment sub-committee approved  (May 2010) the proposals for mutual transfer  of these plots  which were pending finalisation as per benchmark valuation fixed by Revenue and Disaster Management Department (April 2010).

But by-passing  the decision of the Government and the HLAC, the Board of Director (BoD) decided (July 2010)  to dispose off the mutual transfer cases on the basis of land rates  prevalent  on the date of the receipt of such applications leading to illegal transfers. Accordingly, all the pending cases were disposed off  as per rate structure prescribed by BoD, which also resulted in a loss of revenue to the extent of Rs. 73.75 crores.

Pradip Pradhan, M- 9937843482

04.09.2014