Why do I say “5T
and Transparency in administration” as claimed
by Chief Minister, Odisha is big bluff ?
Dear friends
RTI Act which
is implemented in Odisha since 2005
is a law that enforces paradigm
shift from a colonial, secretive
, authoritarian administration to a Transparent
and Accountable Governance system
in the
country keeping the people
at center-stage declaring them as Master of the
Country. The governance
starting from office of Rastrapati Bhawan to
Gram Panchayat office including High Court, supreme Court and Governor house will be
transparent and accountable to the
common people including
beggars, destitute , orphans, homeless of the country. RTI Act is
acclaimed as best law
and occupies 3rd position in the ranking
of best RTI laws in the world.
Since 2005, the Nabin Patnaik Govt. and his
coterie of bureaucrats have
hatched conspiracy from day
one to destroy this
beautiful law on the
soil of Odisha. They have
tried to dilute implementation of RTI Act and make it inoperative through anti-people , absurd and illegitimate Odisha
RTI Rules, 2005 , keeping State Vigilance out of purview of RTI Act and
making defunct system of voluntary
disclosure of information under section
4 of the Act. Within 15 years of implementation of RTI Act, the
Chief Minister has never spoken
a single word about RTI Act, though he claims
his Govt. as a transparent
Govt. The question is
obviously asked how a
Government will be transparent without effective implementation of RTI Act , a law which was
especially enacted by Indian Parliament to enforce transparency.
It has been proved several
times that “5T, Mo Sarkar, Zero Tolerance to Corruption, Transparent Govt.” is all
big lie and designed to deceive
the people of Odisha. Most of the
officers are well-trained how defy RTI Act, deny information and harass
information-seekers including life threats, permanent disable and clod-blooded murder.
In context of COVID management in Odisha , Secrecy is very
clearly visible in every
step of starting COVID Testing
to treatment of patients to allocation and expenditure of fund. The
information is consciously kept
secret for covering up corruption and huge irregularities and COVID mismanagement. I
present here how the
information about COVID
management is denied under RTI Act and kept
secret at the wishes
of corrupt bureaucracy.
N.B.- As
per section 7(1) of the RTI Act, the PIO is required to supply
the information within 30 days.
Date of
RTI Application submitted with
name of Dept.
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Subject matter
of information
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Information supplied or
denied without citing any
reasons
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Heath & Family
Welfare Dept. , RTI filed on 4.5.20
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i. Minutes of meeting of Emergency purchasing
Committee held from day one after declaration of COVID
Lockdown till 15th May, 2020 for procurement of various materials.
ii. copy
of letter for appointing Hemant
Sharma as Procurement officer for COVID 19 and copy of Govt. order issued in this regard.
iii. Copy of
guideline/ instruction/ circular issued in respect of purchase of items with specification that is to be purchased and procedure to be followed.
iii. details of
specification of equipment
invited y Govt. and copy of
purchasing order and details of equipment already purchased with
name of the companies
which supplied.
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RTI Application was
transferred to the Managing
Director, Odisha State Medical
Corporation Ltd. to supply the information. Though two months passed, the PIO has not
supplied any information.
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Heath & Family
Welfare Dept. , RTI filed on 24.4.20
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Test conducted on COVID 19
i.
date on which COVID Testing started
by Govt.
ii. day-wise no. of
testing conducted , no. of testing found negative and no. of testing
found positive.
iii. details of testing
centres in Odisha in which COVID Testing Conducted and date of functioning of the
centres.
iv.details of expenses made under
different heads for COVID testing and payment
made .
v. details of financial support provided to different private organisations operating COVID 19
hospitals in Odisha .
vi.total no. of COVID hospital
opened and its location and date of beginning of its functioning and financial support
provided to each COVID
hospital
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Though 3 months passed, the Dept. has not supplied any information till yet . But not
responded the RTI Application.
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Heath & Family
Welfare Dept. , RTI filed on 1.5.20
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Management of COVID Call centre
and 104 no.
i. Name
of the organization/
Department engaged / appointed for over-all management of COVID-19
call centres and place from which it operates.
ii. Name of the persons engaged / appointed to receive calls and responding calls.
iii. Copy of agreement signed with that organization for management of
call centre and amount fixed for this service.
iv. Total amount already released ( date –wise) and total amount pending to be released to that organization.
v. Details of
procedure followed for taking decision
to engage that organization for COVID 19 CALL CENTRES.
vi. Total calls
received by Call centres ( date-wise) .
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RTI Application has been forwarded to the
PIO, Dept. of E and IT to provide information. But
we are yet to get the
information, though two months passed.
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Heath & Family
Welfare Dept. , RTI filed on 20.5.20
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Doctors working with Govt.
1.Total
No. of Doctors presently working in
Odisha govt. Contractual, regular, adhoc doctors wise
2.Provide details of eligibly criteria
fixed by Govt. for the doctors to receive advance salary in view of corona.
3. Provide total no. of doctors
already provided advance salary declared
by Govt. till yet
and date of release
of salary to their
accounts and copy
of the letter issued
by Govt. for release advance salary
to the doctors.
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RTI Application has
been forwarded to several
directorates to provide
information. Information about
total no. of doctors in place and
vacancy has been supplied. But rest
of information is yet to be supplied.
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Heath & Family
Welfare Dept. , RTI filed on 14.5.20
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Management of COVID-19
Activity
i. details
of procedure followed for from COVID-19 testing to declaration of findings of the testing and no. of COVID-19
affected patients by Govt. publicly.
ii. details
of decision taken to appoint Mr. Subroto Bagchi as Spokesperson for COVID-19
including copy of the filling noting .
iii. name
of the officers who finally decide for disclosure of information about COVID-19 affected
patients and no. of patients
cured and died.
iv. list of the
people with their address
who got cure after undergoing
treatments
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Information about appointment
of Mr. Bagchi as spokesman for COVID
has been provided. But rest of the
information has been kept secret till yet.
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Heath & Family
Welfare Dept. , RTI filed on 1.5.20
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On-line Self-quarantine
registration of persons
Provide total
NO. of persons who
voluntarily registered for undergoing
self-quarantine in the online
system of the Govt. ( date-wise )
ii.
Provide name of the persons
with their address date
of their on-line registration
for self-quarantine in CD.
iii. Provide
name of the organization and officials managing on-line self-registration system for quarantine.
IV. If a private
organization is managing, please
provide copy of the letter authorizing
that organization to manage it
, copy of agreement signed and total fund released to that
organization for it.
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Though 3
months passed , not a
single information has been supplied
to me.
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Information and Public
Relation Department . RTI Was filed on
1.5.20
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Advertisement and
financial support for advertisement on COVID 19
. Provide
total amount earmarked for sensitization progarmme/ advertisement on COVID 19
ii. Provide
total amount paid to
Print media for advertisement / sensitization on COVID
19 fro March to May 20.
iii. Provide
total amount pending to be
paid to Print media
for advertisement /
sensitization on COVID 19 from March
to May 20.
iv. Provide
total amount paid to
each electronics media for
advertisement / sensitization on COVID 19 from March to May 20.
v. Provide total amount pending to be paid
to each electronics media ( state and national) for
advertisement / sensitization on COVID 19 from March to May 20.
vi. Provide total amount paid English news papers for advertisements on COVID
vii. Provide amount paid to
each print media of outside state
for advertisement on COVID 19
viii. Provide total amount paid to Sambad, Samaj , Prameya, Dharitri ,
Pragatibadi for advertisement on COVID
19.
IX. Provide total amount paid to any
organization or other agency on COVID
19
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Though 3 months passed, the PIO has kept
this information secret. Apprehending public expose of mega corruption in advertisement,
this information has been kept secret
at the direction of highest
authority of Mo Sarkar.
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Dept. of General
Administration and PG, Govt. of Odisha
RTI Filed on 1.5.20
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Details of Arup Patnaik deputed by Chief Secretary to
Gujurat to look into
problem of Odia workers in Surat
i. Provide
copy of the letter of
Chief Secretary addressed to
Chief Secretary of Got. Of
Gujurat about Visit
of Arup Patnaik to look into look into problem
of Odia workers in Surat.
ii. Provide
details of advance money , if
any released to Arup patnaik for
his visit to Gujurat .
iii. Provide
copy of report, if any
submitted by Arup Patnaik to Govt. of Odisha .
iv. Provide
details of bill submitted
by Arup Patnaik against expenses made in Gujurat.
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No information has been supplied till yet. However, first appeal
has been filed to get the
information.
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Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation. RTI Filed on 15.4.20
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Details of
allowances paid to Vendors And Vending Zone in Bhubaneswar
. Provide
list of details of Vending Zone and its location
in Bhubaneswar along with
year of constitution of vending zone.
ii.
Provide list of
street vendors identified by BMC
in Bhubaneswar in CD .
iii.
Provide copy of the
notification about latest formation of Vending Zone Committee
by BMC and its members .
iv.
Provide copy of proceedings of Vending Zone Committee meeting held from 2014
to 2020.
v. Provide
copy of the circular/
order issued by Govt. to give allowances to vendors due to COVID-19 emergency .
vii. Provide total amount sanctioned to the BMC for payment of allowances to vendors.
viii. Provide list
of Vendors who have been paid
amount by the
BMC
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Though 3 months
passed, BMC has not
provided a single information till yet.
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Information and Public Relation Department. RTI filed on 21.6.20
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Amount sanctioned under different
heads for the
people engaged for
preparation of press note on COVID-19
i. provide
details of amount sanctioned/ earmarked or
budgetary provision made
under different heads
to meet expenses for the
people engaged for preparation
of press note on COVID-19 addressed by Mr. Subroto Bagchi and
other officials.
ii.
Provide total amount already spent under different heads for
said purpose ( month-wise)
iii.
Provide details of expenses made
for organizing press meet on COVID-19 held at Geet Govind Sadan.( daily).
iv.
Provide name of the private
organization / TV channel entrusted to
telecast the programme,
copy of agreement signed
with it and
total days allotted for the said work, amount
earmarked for the said
work and amount already
paid to this organization with date
of payments.
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Though 30 days
passed, the PIO has not supplied
any information.
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Department of Panchayat Raj, Govt. of Odisha. RTI
Filed dt. 21.6.20
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Amount sanctioned for giving
incentive of Rs.2000.00 to
the people after
completion of their quarantine
period.
i.
Provide total fund allocated for
giving incentive of
Rs.2000.00 to the people
after completion of their quarantine period.
ii. Provide total amount received
from CMRF for giving
incentive of Rs.2000.00 to
the people after
completion of their quarantine
period.
iii. Provide total fund
allotted to each district for
giving incentive of
Rs.2000.00 to the people
after completion of their quarantine period.
iv. Provide total amount
of incentive already paid
in each district
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Though 30 days
passed, the PIO has not supplied
any information.
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Dept. of Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment, RTI was filed on 14.5.20
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total no. of list
of farmers sent to the Central Govt. for financial assistance under PM Kishan Scheme
i.
Provide total no. of list of
farmers sent to Central Govt. for financial assistance under PM Kishan Scheme in different phases
with date and copy of the forwarding
letter.
ii.
Provide total no. of list of
farmers sent to Central Govt. for financial
assistance under PM Kishan Scheme in
different phases ( district-wise).
iii.
Provide total amount of financial assistance given
to total farmers
in Odisha under PM Kishan
scheme and month of payments.
iv. Provide
copy of all correspondence made between State
Govt. and Central Govt. in
respect of payment of financial assistance under PM Kishan scheme upto May 2020.
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No
information has been
proved till yet. It has been
kept secret
to cover up irregularities.
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Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date-2.8.20
