The taskforce headed by Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue) Taradatt which has submitted its report to the Government after investigating the process of allocation of plots and houses under discretionary quota (DQ), has recommended cancellation of the properties to the illegal beneficiaries.
The committee also has recommended the Government to attach the properties within three months.According to a private news channel which claims to have the summary of the report with it, around 2,200 plots and flats were given to various people under the DQ between 1995 and 2014 from the BDA, the GA, the CDA and the Odisha State Housing Development Corporation by sheer misuse of power.
Nearly 200 people availed plots and flats over the period, who included politicians, Ministers and bureaucrats. The panel also recommended legal action against the violators.Though the report was submitted to the Government on October 31, the latter was yet to reveal its findings.On August 2, the Government had constituted the taskforce after the Comptroller and Auditor General found indiscriminate allotment of lands and houses under the DQ.