Media-hyped
News about Dismissal of the officers
and employees by Chief Minister,
Odisha
“How Far It is
Fact ?” Has really Chief Minister
dismissed any employees, as Media Propagates?
RTI
Exposed the authenticity of Information.
After Media highlighting, covering front-page news and
glorifying Chief
Minister’s action against Corruption termed as “ Zero
Tolerance to Corruption” by way of
dismissing number of
officers and employees from service and withholding pension
of the employees on ground of corruption in 2019 and 2020,
Multiple RTI Applications dt. 3.9.2019,
14.7.20 were filed by Pradip Pradhan,
Srikant Pakal , Santosh Mohanty and many
others to the
office of the Chief Minister , Dept. of Parliamentary Affairs , Dept. of GA
&PG , Govt. of Odisha to access
the following information
i. Provide details of
documents and files relating to decision taken
by Chief Minister to dismiss
21 officers and employees from service
with copy of file
noting with their
names with address and
post held by them.
ii. Provide name
of the retired
officers and employees
whose pension has been held
up by Chief
Minister , copy of the order
of Chief minister
along with copy
of details of decision
taken in this regard
including copy of the
file noting. .
The PIO, office
of the Chief Minister categorically
denied the information
, as the said information is not
at all available in the CM’S office. On query about copy of the press
release, the PIO replied that it is available in public domain. We searched the website of Chief Minister’s
office, but could not get any information about press release. We had
also approached many media people
to get the copy
of the press release issued
from the office of Chief Minister, but in vain, as
everyone expresses their
helplessness.
The issue before us is
how the
office of Chief Minister got
the information about
number of employees
dismissed and pension withheld,
when media reports
and highlights it. However,
another attempt was made
to access the said information and unearth truth
and the politics
behind this news
about CM dismissing employees
from service on ground of
corruption. On 24.8.20., Sri Sarbeswar Behura, RTI Activist filed
RTI Application in the office
of General Administration and PG, Govt. of Odisha seeking
the following information from June-2019 to August-2020 attaching
copy of the news published in the news papers
“ the Chief Minister has
dismissed 60 employees from service
on the ground of corruption”.
a. Name of
the officers and employees
who have been dismissed by the
Chief Minister on the ground of
corruption as declared by Govt. ,
name of their Dept. and position held by them
b. Name of the
officers and employees who have been given compulsory
retirement by the Chief Minister on the ground of
corruption , designation held by
each of them, name of their
department.
c. Name of the
retired employees whose
pension has been temporarily
stopped and their department.
Thanks to God, the PIO
without denying the
information, forwarded RTI
Application to all the
Departments to provide
information which was again forwarded
to all sub-ordinate offices by the
concerned departments across the
state. Within last three months , the
supply of information from various offices
still continues and getting flooded with us. This
information really exposed
who has dismissed the
public servants and its ground of
dismissal. The details of officers dismissed, ground of their dismissal
and name of the authority who dismissed are as follows.
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Employees dismissed |
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Sl.No |
Name of the officers and employees , position held with |
Department |
Details of dismissal |
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1 |
Sri Akhaya Kumar Behera, |
MSME Dept |
He was dismissed by the Dept. on 30.10.2019 after Special Judge , Vigilance in P.S. Case No. |
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2 |
Sri Dharma Singh, |
Collector, Mayurbhanj |
He was dismissed on |
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3 |
Sri Jibesh Chandra Rath, Deputy Executive Engineer under Bhubaneswar ( R&B) Division-1, |
Works Department |
Secretary, Dept. of Works |
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4 |
Sri Tirupati Venkateswar Asst. Engineer, Rural Works , Dasapalla , |
Works Department |
DO |
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5 |
Sri Tapan Kumar Garnaik, |
Works Department |
The Special Judge (vigilance) |
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6 |
Sri Pruthwiraj Lenka, Asst. |
Works Department |
DO |
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7 |
Sri Krustna Mohan Dash, |
Collector, Kalahandi |
He was dismissed by the Collector, Kalahandi on the ground of corruption. |
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8 |
Sri Ashok Kumar Saha, PEO, Thuamul Ram pur Block |
DO |
DO |
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9 |
Sri Padma Mukha Sabar, PEO, |
DO |
DO |
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10 |
Chudamani Murmu, Protection |
WCD Dept. |
Chief Minister , Odisha |
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11 |
Shri H.K.Panda , Forest |
Office of Conservation of forest , Angul |
Office of Conservation of forest , Angul |
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12 |
Sri Prabasi Sethy, Ex-DDA, |
Directorate of Agriculture & Food Production |
Removal from Govt. service |
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13 |
Sri Birendranath Mishra, |
DO |
Removal from Govt. service |
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14 |
Sri Astam Chandra Patel, |
Collectorate of Sundaragarh |
Special Judge (Vigilance), |
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15 |
Sri Trilochan Seth, Ex-PIO, |
DO |
Special Judge (Vigilance), |
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16 |
Sri Dileswar Dehury , Ex-Auditor District Audit Office, LFA, |
Directorate of Local Fund Audit, Bhubaneswar |
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17 |
Sri Sridhar Sethi, District Audit Office, LFA, |
DO |
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18 |
Sri Rajendra Tripathy , District Audit Office, LFA, |
DO |
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Employees granted |
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1 |
Sri Sirish Chandra Mishra Ex-Panchayat Executive |
Panchayat Raj Dept. |
The Collector, |
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2 |
Sri Pradeep Kumar Mohanty, |
Directorate of Agriculture & Food Production |
Premature retirement |
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3 |
Sri Arun Kumar Behera, |
Dept. of Agriculture & |
Premature retirement |
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4 |
Sri Satyapriya Samantaray, |
Dept. of Agriculture & Farmers’ |
Premature retirement |
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5 |
Sri Sudhansu Sekhar Mishra, |
Office of PCCF, Odisha |
Premature retirement |
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6 |
Sri SARAT Chandra Panda, OFS-1(SB) |
DO |
DO |
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7 |
Dr. Bihu Prasad Sarangi, |
Health and Family Welfare Dept. |
He has been compulsory |
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Employees whose pension has been temporarily stopped |
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1 |
Sri Udayanath Swain , |
Works Dept. |
No reason |
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2 |
Sri Jagannath Hansda , |
Dept. of GA &PG( Rent) |
His pension |
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3 |
Someswar Sabat ( retired) Ex-Soil Conservation Extension |
Directorate of Soil |
His pension has been temporarily withheld . No reason cited. |
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4 |
Sri Arun Charan Parida, |
Works Department |
On 30.4.2011, the Additional special Judge, Vigilance court , |
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5 |
Sudhir Kumar Brajendra Narayan , EX-MD, |
Works Department |
On 30.4.2011, the Additional special Judge, Vigilance court , |
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6 |
Sri Gourang Charan Sahu (A), |
Department of Energy |
His pension was |
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7 |
Nilamani Satapathy |
Planning and |
No reason cited |
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8 |
Sri Mahadev Ghosh, Senior Clerck ( Retired) |
Office |
His salary |
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Prepared by
Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date- 23.12.20
