Tag: Scams In Odisha

The State government is also yet to submit Utilisation Certificates (UC) of Rs 36,000 crore of at least 10 departments to the Centre but continues to accuse the Central government of neglecting the State

It was not an isolated case, rather several Indians have in recent times fallen prey to such high-end cyber crimes in which people are being defrauded to the tune of hundreds of crores of rupees everyday.

Balasore: Alleging sub-standard work and other irregularities in development of the Fakir Mohan college playground, students and locals today staged demonstration during the visit of Odisha Higher Education Minister Ananta Das to the college. The students alleged that though Rs 68.1 lakh was sanctioned by the works department for the development of the playground, no […]

Bhubaneswar: After creating a flutter with his back-to-back allegations of scams and irregularities in the BJD-led government, senior BJD leader Damodar Rout on Wednesday went soft on the Odisha government to the extent of saying, ‘Naveen Babu is a good human being and he has no fault in these irregularities.’ In what seemed an attempt […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today lashed out at the Odisha government for its new guidelines on work orders for government projects and accused it of looting public money. The Petroleum minister said that the BJP will hold a 10-day long demonstration protesting the new guideline of the State government and will not let embezzlement […]

Bhubaneswar: Senior leader Damodar Rout on Monday blamed BJD leader Arun Sahoo for ruckus during former’s public rally -Baripada Samavesh and said that he would have to visit Sahoo’s constituency, Nayagarh, to take him to task. Rout alleged that the BJD MLA hired a person to create ruckus during his public meeting out of fear. […]

Bhubaneswar: While landing blow after blow on Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government, senior leader of the party and ex-minister Damodar Rout today hit back at anti-party allegations brought against him by Jagatsinghpur District president of the party Bishnu Dash and Balikuda- Erasama MLA Prashanta Muduli. Both Dash and Muduli met party president CM Naveen Patnaik and […]

The decks have been cleared. With senior BJD leader Dr. Damodar Rout himself publicly saying today that he is no more with the BJD, it is only a matter of time before he finds himself formally out of the party. Just about the only point of interest at this stage is whether he, like Baijayant […]

Cuttack/Jajpur: In 2018, private companies were found misusing the ‘Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana’ (PMAY) in Odisha and now in 2019, instances of massive mismanagement in allotment of houses to people has come to fore. A family from Taranjia village in Jajpur district has been allotted four houses under different housing schemes. One of the said […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid a series of allegations, Odisha Panchayati Raj Minister Pratap Jena today informed the State Assembly that the government has so far taken action against 101 officials for lapses in implementation of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY). While 22 officials have been dismissed, 44 have been put under suspension and disciplinary action has been […]

Cuttack: Amid a series of allegations of irregularities, financial mismanagement in Cuttack Central Cooperative Bank has come to the fore. It is alleged that money to the tune of over Rs 1 crore has been siphoned off from the bank accounts of several people in the district. The victims have alleged Odisha Cooperation Minister Ranendra […]

Bhubaneswar: Farmers in Sambalpur district have alleged that lakhs of rupees in subsidy meant for purchase of paddy transplanters have been embezzled by the middlemen. “I do farming but I have not bought any such planting machine,” said a marginal farmer from Bilunga, Khulana Senapati on whose name a paddy transplanter machine has been bought […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Congress workers on Monday staged a demonstration in front of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) office in Bhubaneswar alleging that the central agency has put the investigation of massive scams and crimes in the cold storage. On Congress’ foundation day, the State unit of the party alleged that the CBI is being […]