Finance Minister Niranjan Pujhari on Friday launched a new website of the State Government for inviting online claim applications from the duped depositors of fraudulent financial establishments.

As the new website (www.opid.odisha.gov.in) comes into force, the duped depositors would no longer go to the teahasil offices for submission of their claim applications.

They can now submit the same either from their homes or through Mo Seva Kendra (the address of the nearest Mo Seva Kendra is available in the site www.odishaone.gov.in). Official sources said the website would be convenient not only for receiving claim applications but also for their processing quickly and it would also help the field verification team for identification of genuine depositors and their actual claims. The website is another initiative of the Government for identification of genuine depositors and to ascertain their actual claims in a very transparent and time-bound manner which reflects the 5T agenda of the Government, the sources said.

However, to start with, the State Government has invited online claim applications from the depositors of Hi-Tech Estates and Promoters Private Limited and Rajdhani System and Estate Pvt Ltd, which have invested money in the Kalyan Vihar, Kalyan Vihar Phase-II, Bhagya Nagar, Kunja Vihar and Pushpanjali Enclave plotted schemes of the companies to get lands (plots) and defrauded by them, which neither returned their deposits nor provided them with any land or plot. In this regard, necessary advertisement has been published by the ADM & Competent Authority, Cuttack on May 27 in newspapers.