Bureaucrats manage the show
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has never visited the CM grievances cell here and heard the plights of the people personally during May 2009 to March 2014 while the cell has received a total of 47,750 petitions from across the State during this period.
The Parliamentary Affairs Department revealed this information while complying with an RTI application filed by rights activist Pradip Pradhan recently. Pradhan on July 9 this year had submitted an application at the State General Administration Department seeking information about the functioning of the CM grievances cell from 2009 to 2014 which was forwarded to the Parliamentary Affairs Department to comply.
The Parliamentary Affairs Department on September 4 informed that during 2009 to 2014, the CM grievance cell has received a total number of 47,750 petitions and disposed of 39,651 cases.
While in 2010 as many as 7,266 petitions were received, 6,362 cases were disposed of. In 2011, out of 7126 cases received, 5,795 cases were disposed of. Of the total 6,530 cases received in 2012, the number of settled case was 5,702 while in 2013 out of the total 14,883 cases 8,486 cases were disposed of.
Similarly, till March 2014, the cell has received 9,392 cases and disposed of 8,486.
In the absence of the Chief Minister, senior bureaucrats like Krushna Chandra Mohapatra, G Mathi Vathanam, Dillip Kumar Mohanty, Debendra Prasad Dhal, Dr Gopabandhu Dash and Ritarani Mohapatra are hearing the grievances of the people.