Khordha Head Clerk held taking Rs 20K bribe
Bhubaneswar: Tapan Kumar Nayak, Head Clerk of the Khordha Sub-Collector Office, was caught red-handed by the Vigilance police on Wednesday for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000. Nayak had demanded the illegal gratification from one Raja Nayak of village Basanta in the district to process the file for revalidating permission for sale his land to general category person. His Government residential quarter at Khordha was searched and he was arrested.
Labour Office clerk held taking bribe
Bhadrak: A Junior Clerk working at the District Labour Office here was arrested by the Vigilance police on Thursday for allegedly demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 9,000. Sudhakar Barik had demanded the bribe from Akshay Das, managing partner, Bhawani Security Agency, Basantia gram panchayat, to renew labour licence in favour of the security agency.
New Jajpur DM studies Nagada dev works
JAJPUR: New Collector of Jajpur district Chakraborty Singh Rathore, on Wednesday paid his first visit to the much-hyped Nagada and inspected various project works.He arrived at upper Nagada with Sukinda BDO Biswajit Das and visited the newly-constructed Anganwadi house and made a query about availability of daily food to the children. He later opened a toilet and saw the drainage water flowing in from upper Nagada Sahi directly around the Anganwadi house and asked the BDO about the drainage problem.The Collector later visited middle Nagada and asked the BDO whether the families living in the three Nagada localities had been provided permanent houses. The BDO said two to three check-dams were being pumped from the hills and the water was being supplied through pipes.The Collector was happy to see various vegetables being cultivated in the area. He asked Zuang tribals about their problems. He later visited the local school.