Vig finds B’ngir manager assets of `1.20 cr
Cuttack: In a disproportionate assets case, Vigilance on Saturday last raided the houses and office of Balangir District Central Cooperative Bank Manager Chakradhar Pradhan and calculated his property to be worth `1,19,30,000. The search was on. Pradhan’s residential house at Chandrasekharnager, Balangir, parental house at Kantapalli, Deogargh and office room at Balangir were simultaneously searched. His assets include a three storeyed building at Chandrasekhar Nagar, Balangir worth of `70,00,000, one double storeyed building at Deogarh worth of `17,00,000, household articles of `7,00,000, bank deposits of `27,00,000, gold ornaments of about 100 gms, three home stead plots at Balangir and one plot at Deogarh, besides cash of `39,000.
Mayurbhanj PEO, K’jhar VlW held taking bribe
Cuttack: Vigilance police on Saturday arrested Mayurbhanj district’s laxmansahi gram panchayat Executive Officer Bhaskar Chandra Das for demanding and accepting bribe of `5,000 from one Shyam Singh of Kendugadi village to sanction a IAY house in his favour. In his complaint, Singh alleged that Das had first demanded `10,000 after he submitted requisite documents to get an IAY house. later, he agreed at `5,000. The vigilance sleuths laid a trap and caught Das red-handed, informed an official release. In another case, Vigilance sleuths arrested Keonjhar district’s Maidankel GP VlW Basanta Kuma Behera on the charge of taking bribe of `2,000 from one Sahadeb Mohanta of Basudevpur to sanction a Biju Pucca house in his favour. Behera had first demanded `5,000 and later reduced to `2,000.
Eviction drive held at Bhoi Nagar slums
Bhubaneswar: A joint eviction team consisting of BDA, BMC and the Commissionerate Police removed encroachments near Baiababa Basti and Bhagabati Basti in Bhoi Nagar under Sahid Nagar and Kharavela Nagar Police Station limits on Saturday. Earlier, the BMC had urged for removal of 29 unauthorised structures. The drive was conducted by BDA Enforcement Officer Pramod Kumar Patra, liasioning Officer Subhransu Sekhar Mohanty, Assistant Commissioner, Enforcement, BMC Mulla Mahamad, ACP Rabindra Nath Satapathy, Sahid Nagar IIC Deepak Kumar Mishra and Kharavela Nagar IIC Sanjib Satapathy. Besides, two platoons of force and a section of lady force were deployed.
Vigyanpan publishes Career Guide-2015
Bhubaneswar: Vigyanpan’s Career Guide-2015, a directory containing data of all the professional educational institutions in the State has been published recently. At a Press meet on Friday, Vigyanpan director (projects) Manoj Prusty and director (administration) Kamala Kanta Mohanty said the guide encapsulates data on +2 Science and Commerce colleges, CBSE and ICSE schools, professional educational institutions, universities and research centres, distance education, tutorials, training and placement consultants and scholarships, etc. Besides, a web portal of the Vigyanpan www.odishadireCtory.org has also been launched. Vigyanpan publisher Rashmita Mohapatra and Editor Dillip Mishra were present, among others.
Tenant details: owners get 2 more months
Bhubaneswar: House owners of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack heaved a sigh of relief after the Commissionerate Police on Saturday extended the deadline for submission of tenants’ details by two months. Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissioner of Police Dr RP Sharma told reporters that the deadline has been extended till August 5. So far, a total of 20,000 house owners, including 8,000 in Cuttack, have submitted detailed information about their tenants in a declaration form to the concerned police stations of their areas. On April 8, the Commissionerate Police, taking note of rising incidence of criminal activities in the twin city, made a mandatory provision for all house owners to furnish the details of their tenants. If any house owner is found to have furnished wrong information to the police, he/she will have a six-month jail term with a fine of `1,000.