Vigilance cases had been registered against 29 ITDA officials during the last five years from 2010-11 to 2015-16 for misconducts like misappropriation of Government money, payment irregularities in vegetable cultivation, financial irregularities and irregularities in execution of developmental work.
SC and ST Development and Minorities and Backward Classes Minister Ramesh Chandra Majhi informed this in response to a question of BJD MlA Ranendra Pratap Swain in the State Assembly on Saturday.
According to the data, one Assistant Executive Engineer and two Junior Engineers of Kuchinda ITDA, three clerks, three WEOs, an former AE, former JE, former Special Officer and former PA of the Panposh ITDA, two Junior Engineers of the Thuamul Ramapur ITDA, two former JEs of Rairangpur ITDA, a former AE and a former JE of the Champua ITDA, a former of the Bonai ITDA, a former AE of the Jepore ITDA, an AE, a former AE, two former JE, a JE and a former PA of the Baliguda ITDA and a JE of the Malkanigiri ITDA had faced Vigilance cases, the Minister said.
The Government had conducted special audit against nine persons of the Panposh ITDA, the Minister added.
In a question that was discussed in the House, the Minister informed that five officials of the ITDA and the OTElP, Malkangiri have been dismissed from the job for misappropriation funds totaling Rs 29,18,784 on the basis of audit report.
He too informed that FIRs have been filed against six private persons for financial irregularities. They include Kshetra Mohan Khuntia (Rs 28,86,634), Aswini Kumar Tripathy (Rs 28,86,634), Gupteswar Brahma (Rs 13,70,454), Chandresh (2,71,880) and Umashankar Monhanty (Rs 43,012)