Balangir District Collector M Muthukumar appeared before the State Assembly Protocol Sub-Committee on Wednesday for allegedly violating Book Circular-47, a charge levelled by leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra (Congress).
Muthukumar denied the charge while committee chairman Nrusingha Sahu saw violation of rules by the bureaucrat.
“It seems that the Collector has violated the provisions of Book Circular-47 as he failed to present data over acknowledgement even though the leader of Opposition had written more than 50 letters,” Sahu said.
However, Muthukumar claimed that there was no violation of Book Circular 47.
Narasingha Mishra, who is Balangir MlA, had drawn the attention of the Assembly in this regard during its last session alleging that the provisions, which clearly show the behaviour of bureaucrats with people’s representatives, are violated.
Acting on the allegation, Speaker Niranjan Pujari formed a Protocol Sub-Committee, headed by Sahu.
The committee has six other members, Debashis Samantaray (BJD), Bibhutibhushan Harichandan (BJP), Prafulla Majhi (Congress), Mayadhar Jena (BJD), Bijay Mohanty (BJD) and Manohar Randhari (BJD).