Accountant General of Odisha Amar Patnaik through an official communiqué on Friday asked the Chief Secretary to submit an action taken report (ATR) on dubious land allotments between 2009 and 2013 on Friday.
lots of complaints were filed during this period regarding land allotments under discretionary quota in Bhubaneswar and at CDA in Cuttack and irregularities in acquisition of industrial plots by Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO).The AG has sought ATR on 2009-10 civil report number-2, 2010-11 civil report number 2, 2011-12 G&SS report 4 and 5.
While these reports were to be sent to the AG by November 22, 2011, June 28, 2012, July 28, 2013 and September 22, 2014, not a single report reached the AG on time. Besides, the Government is silent on the 68 incidents flagged by the audit complaints.The AG has asked the Government to take action on the above mentioned issues as soon as possible and send the report.