COVID Fund utilised by Khurda district administration, Odisha

Fund allocated and utilized by   District administration, Khurda  for  Management of COVID Pandemic

Dear  friends 

RTI Application dt. 15.7.20  was submitted to the PIO, office  of  District  Collector, Khurda seeking  information about  details of fund received and utilized  for management  of COVID situation  in Khurda district.  On 14.8.20., the PIO supplied the  following  information. 

Fund  allocated  under SDRF ( State Disaster Response Fund )  and utilized 

SDRF (CDMO)	Fund allotted	Fund Distribution
		Date	Whom given	Purpose	Amount	Total  amount	Balance
DO	5,00,00,000	28.3.20				25,00,000
		10.4.20	CDMO office	To all CHCs	1,12,00,000	1,12,00,000
DO		27.5.20	All BDOs ( Each )	TMC Fooding  and accommodation	10,00,000	1,00,00,000
			Executive Officer, Balugaon/Banapur  NAC ( each)		10,00,000	20,00,000
			Executive Officer, Jatni/ Khurda Municipality		5,00,000	10,00,000
		27.5.20	RTO-1, BBSR	Hiring of vehicles	20,00,000	20,00,000
			RTO-2,BBSR		5,00,000	5,00,000
			PD, DRDA		10,00,000	10,00,000
		28.5.20	CDMO office	Volunteer  Remuneration and mobile charges	28,620	28620
		17.6.20	CDMO office	Volunteer remuneration	37,200	37,200
Total	5,00,00,000					3,02,65,820	1,97,34,180

SDRF (Free Kitchen )  towards sick, Indigent  & Destitute  and Migrant Laourers

Sl.No	Total amount allotted	Amount required		Amount disbursed		Total amount  disbursed	Balance
		Sick, Indigent	Migrant	Sick, Indigent	Migrant
1	2,74,44,000	1,29,16,710	84,60,345	1,29,16,710	84,60,345	2,13,77,055	60,66,945

Fund received  from GA &PG Dept  ( Chief Minister Relief Fund )  and Utilised  for  COVID-19

Sl.No.	Received from	Amount allotted	To whom given	Purpose	Amount	Total amount	Balance
1	CMRF ( Red Cross)	2,00,00,000	All  BDOs ( each)	COVID related  Activities	14,50,000	1,45,00,000
2			Executive  Officer, Jatni / Khorda Municipality ( Each)		14,00,000	28,00,000
3			Executive  Officer , Balugaon/ Banpur NAC (each)		7.00.000	14,00,000
4			ADM, Bhubaneswar		2,00,000	2,00,000
5			Su-Collector, Khurda / BBSR (each)		2,00,000	2,00,000
6			All Tahasildars ( EACH)		50,000	50,000
7			ADM, Revenue		10,206	10,206
8			DLO, Khurda		2139	2139
9			ADM, Revenue	Fuel Charges	14,127	14,127
10			BMC	Transportation  charges	5,000	5,000
11			SHG Group	Purchase of Mask	29,500	29,500
	Total amount	2,00,00,000				1,98,60,972	1,39,028
	CMRF	5,00,00,000	Executive Engineer, R& B	Temporary Tent House  for returnees	59,05,400	59,05,400
			M/S Chapala travels	Ticket  charges  of 10 migrant lourers  from BBSR to Jajpur	10,895	10,895
			Sub-Collector, Khurda	Hire charges of vehicle  and POL Cost	3,00,000	3,00,000
			PD, DRDA, Khurda	POL Cost  for  Intra and inter district  transporation of returnees	11,42,346	11,42,346
			All BDOs ( Except  Balianta, Chilika	Returnees  from abroad	9,60,000	9,60,000
			DSWO, Khurda	Honourarium to WSHGs  for  managing  of free kitchen	2,58,888	2,58,888
			OTDC Ltd.	Returnees  at Khorda  Road Railway station  and BBSR  New Railway Station	24,55,116	24,55,116
			Neelachal Hospital Pvt. Ltd.	Advance payments towards  mobilization  for creating COVID  Hopsital  at Balakati	85,00,000	85,00,000
			RTO, Bhubaneswar	Hire  charge  of  vehicle  and POL Cost	11,22,147	11,22,147
	Total	5,00,00,000				2,06,54,792	2,93,45,208
	Total   Balance						2,94,84,236
	CMRF/17305 dt. 24.7.20	13,77, 06,000
	CMRF /17301, dt. 24.7.20-21	7,50,00,000
		21,27,06,000					24,21,90,236

N.B. – Anybody  interested  to know  about  details of  expenditure made  under  each head  / by different offices, further RTI needs to be applied  to  monitor  the  expenditure whether genuine  or not. 

Pradip Pradhan

M-9937843482

Date-30.8.20

Loan amount of Rs. 10695.00 crore mobilized by Govt. of Odisha

Loan amount of Rs. 10695.00  crore  mobilized by Govt. of Odisha  during period  of COVID Pandemic

( From March to August , 2020 )

Dear friends

On 23.7.20., RTI Application was submitted to the PIO, Dept. of Finance, Govt. of Odisha seeking   the following information.

A.      Provide information details of  loan  mobilized  by Govt. of Odisha  from various  sources.

B.      Details of loan  amount  disbursed  to  various  departments .

C.      Details  of  fund available  in State  Contingency Fund .

On 24.8.20, the  PIO  has  supplied  the  information which is as follows.

Sl. No.	Source of  loan  mobilized	Amount ( in Crores)
1	Govt. of India	463.24
2	Open market	5000.00
3	NABARD	1228.00
4	Rural Electrification  Corporation  and  others	3843.06
5	Provident  Fund (NET)	161.30
	Total	10,695.69

2. The PIO  has stated  that   loan amount  is  not  distributed  among various  depts.. 

3. On 5.8.20, the PIO  has  provided  that  total amount  of Rs. 1958.61  crores  is available in State  Contingency  Fund. 

Pradip Pradhan

M-9937843482

Date- 30.8.20 

Arbitrary Disposal of Case by Sashiprava Bindhani,SIC

Arbitrary Disposal of Case by Sashiprava Bindhani, retired SIC of  Odisha

Dear friends

 Sri Hrushikesh Tripathy, a native of Thakurmunda block of  Mayurbhanj  district  had  filed  RTI Application  dt. 19.9.2018 to the PIO-cum- Managing  Director, LAMPS , Thakurmunda  , Mayurbhanj  district  seeking  information about details of  procedure  followed for  appointment  of staff  in LAMPS.  It needs to be mentioned here that there  was  illegal appointment  by MD, LAMPS  violating  Govt.  procedure  and guidelines.   RTI was   used  to bring  to limelight  the illegalities  in the appointment  process.  On 16.10.18,  the PIO  wrote a letter  asking him to deposit  Rs. 1,50,000.00  towards  cost of the  information.  Being aggrieved by the  decision of the PIO,  Sri Tripathy  filed  first appeal dt. 24.10.18  to the First Appellate Authority   to   hear  the appeal petition and  give him justice.  The  FAA  did  not hear  the  case . Then  he  filed  Second Appeal dt.  6.12.2018   before   Odisha Information Commission  for inquiry  into the matter  and  provide  information free of cost.   

 The   Second  appeal  petition registered  as SA  3238/18    was  heard  by Sashiprava Bindhani , State  Information Commissioner  on 20.12.19 at Camp Court held  at Baripada, district  headquarter  of Mayurbhanj district.   Though Hrushikesh attended the  hearing, neither the PIO nor FAA attended  the  hearing.  Mrs. Bindhani  issued  show cause  notice to the PIO and FAA , LAMPCS  to  appear  in person on 11.3.20. Both of them appeared before  the  Commission  on that day and  submitted  their  written memorandum which  was handed over  to the appellant  for submission of discrepancy, if any.  During  hearing   Hrushikesh objected   and appraised  the  commission that  the  written memorandum  given to him did not  carry  any  information sought for.  The  Commission  observed   that the said  information  would  be  available  under  section 4 (1)(b)  of the RTI Act  and directed  the PIO  to  comply  it  and indicate  which information are available  under  section 4  of the RTI Act.

Despite  order  of the  Commission, the  PIO  and the First Appellate Authority  neither  complied nor provided  any information nor  web-hosted information in their website .  As  Mrs. Sashiprava Bindhani, SIC  is about  to retire  in the month of June, 20,   she   hurriedly  conducted  hearing  of the  case on 4.6.20 without  any intimation to the appellant  and  PIO  and issued  direction to the PIO     to comply the  direction of the  Commission as stated above within  one month and closed  the  case.

Though two months  passed, the  PIO neither  complied   direction  of the  Commission  nor  provided any  information to the  information-seekers.  The  Appellant  Sri Hrushikesh  took  all pains    of three  years  to get  the  information.  His  struggle  ended  in fiasco, as  the  Commission  closed  the  case  without  ensuring  the  information.  As  general practice  prevails  in the office of Odisha  Information  Commission,   the  Commission can not  close the  case  without  ensuring  the  information.  Now  the  appellant  was left  in hopeless  world  and  new  he  has to  renew  his  struggle   again from scratch  to get  the  information in order  to expose  corruption and irregularities  in LAMPS.

 Sri Hrushikesh  Tripathy  can be contacted  in M- 8328905766

Pradip Pradhan

M-9937843482

Date- 11.8.20