The State Commission for Women (SCW) while hearing a case filed by a woman electrical contractor has held the General Electrical Department (GED) No-I Executive Engineer and the Estimator guilty of misbehavior and recommended the State Government to initiate disciplinary action against the officers.
According to reports, Jayanti Pattanaik, an electrical contractor and proprietor of Shree Electricals, on November 12, 2013 filed a complaint of harassment and misconduct at the SCW against GED No-I, Bhubaneswar’s Executive Engineer Rasa Bihari Panigrahi and Estimator Pradeep Kumar Mallik.In her complaint, Pattanaik had alleged that the two officers harassed her when she and her husband Amiya Kumar Das went to their offices with the claim for clearance of the pending bills amounting to more than Rs30 lakh. On the basis of the complaint, the Commission initiated an enquiry into the matter and found the duo guilty. PNS
“Surprisingly, a month after the stern indictment by the commission, no disciplinary action has yet been taken against the guilty officers,” said the victim and demanded stringent action be initiated against the duo.