Showing “zero tolerance towards corruption” in various departments, the Odisha Government on Tuesday took stringent actions against 14 officials for graft and inefficiency.
According to a release issued from the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), four officials were dismissed from their services, four more were given compulsory retirement and pension of six more corrupt officials were stopped permanently.
The officials included a Superintending Engineer, two Assistant Engineers, a DSP, a CDPO, a Forest Range Officer, a Tehsildar, a BDO, a Senior Manager, a Tax Collector, a Supplies Inspector and three Junior Engineers.
The actions were taken on the basis of feedbacks received under the 5T charter and Mo Sarkar initiative of the Government.
With this, actions have been taken against 187 Government officials so far on the grounds of corruption and inefficiency. Earlier, 173 officials had faced it.
The corrupt officials who were given compulsory retirement were Cuttack PH Division’s suspended Superintending Engineer Naba Kishore Samal, former DSP of IUCAW Malay Kishore Nayak, Assistant Engineer of Sundargarh Municipality Jayant Narayan Panda and former Tax Collector of Talcher Municipality Khirodh Chandra Rout.