Taking stringent action against corruption and professional misconduct, the State Government on Wednesday gave compulsory retirement to six alleged tainted officials from their services with immediate effect.
This followed an order of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.Of the six officials, four are engineers and two posted in Excise Department.
They are Ajit Kumar Debata (Deputy Executive Engineer, Rural Works Division, Keonjhar), Jitendra Kumar Dalai (Assistant Engineer, Quality Control Department of R&B division, Cuttack), Bijay Parida (Assistant Engineer, Rural Works Section-1, Karanjia), Ganeswar Sethi (Assistant Engineer, R&B Division-II, Bhubaneswar), Jayadeep Patnaik (Deputy Superintendent of Excise, Sambalpur) and Rihaz Ahmed Beg (Excise Inspector, Sundargarh).
As per the official release, Ajit Debata is accused of accumulating assets worth over Rs 1 crore disproportionate to his known sources of income. Also, two Vigilance cases have been registered against him.
Jitendra Dalai and Bijay Parida were forced to retire after graft charges were levelled against them. While two vigilance cases were lodged against Dalai, there are three cases against Parida on the charge of misusing funds during repairing works.
