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the pioneer PATDARHA PEOPLE DEMAND DUES FOR WELLS DUG Monday, 09 June 2014 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA Engineers only give assurance   Villagers in Patdarha plateau in Nuapada district have demanded that they be paid dues soon towards the wages and other expenditures they incurred in digging drinking water wells under the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWS&S) department. According to information, RWS&S officials had asked people of 12 hamlets of the plateau to construct drinking water wells in their respective hamlets last year with assurance that they would be paid the cost as per the Government norms. However, the officials are now shying away from the commitment when the works have been completed, villagers alleged. Earlier contractors from Nayagarh were employed on behalf of the RWS&S to dig such wells in eight places of the plateau. The contractor selected the sites without taking consents of the locals and constructed wells. Now, most of the wells dug...

the pioneer OFFICIAL HELD IN ‘ILLEGAL’ KBK PROJECT EXECUTION Tuesday, 10 June 2014 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA Khariar BDO, ABDO obtain bail prior to arrest  The Nuapada police have arrested District Planning and Monitoring Unit (DPMU)’s Economic Investigator Bholanath Raul in connection with the ‘illegal’ execution of projects under the Biju KBK Programme in Khariar block in Nuapada district. The projects were allegedly executed without approval of the District Planning Committee (DPC). Bolanath has been forwarded to the jail. DPMU Deputy Director had on April 28 lodged an FIR in the Nuapada police station alleging that 20 projects worth Rs 89 lakh were executed under forged documents. The DPMU, which is the nodal agency of the district to deal with planning and approval of the projects under Biju KBK, has no records pertaining to these works asthe DPC didn’t sanction them. Meanwhile, the district Collector has issued show-cause notice to the Block Development Officer (BD...

the pioneer ELECTROCUTED NUAPADA LABOURER LOSES LIMBS Saturday, 05 April 2014 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA The hand chopping case of bonded labourers of Kalahandi had shocked the nation a few months ago. When Nilambar Dhangdamajhi and Dialu Nial of Jayapatna block of Kalahandi district are yet to recoup from their agony, another case of negligence and helplessness has come to the forefront. The victim this time is Pabitra Parabhoe (19) of Kuligaon village of Khariar block of Nuapada district. He along with his elder brother Baldeb (25) and mother Sumitra (55) was working in a brick kiln of Hyderabad since last January. They had been paid Rs16, 000 each by a labour contractor, named Rikhi Majhi of Turekela block of Balangir district. On an occasion, while working Pabitra got electrocuted. “The owner instructed me to switch on the line and when I touched the main line, I got electrocuted,” said Pabitra.Pabitra was admitted to the Gandhi Hospital by the contractor but he was not all...

the pioneer 20 PROJECTS WORTH RS89L EXECUTED UNDER FORGED NODS Monday, 28 April 2014 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA The Khariar Panchayat Samiti of Nuapada district has executed 20 construction projects with an estimated cost of Rs89 lakh on forged approval and sanction orders. These projects implemented under the Biju KBK scheme in Khariar block in the year 2011-12 during the tenure of Janaki Ballhaba Mishra as the district Collector are neither in the Biju KBK approved list of the district nor have got technical and administrative sanctions of the concerned authority.However, surprisingly, the documents available in the office of the Block Development Officer, Khariar reveal that they have been duly approved by the District Planning Committee (DPC). Verification of the records of the Block office also reveals that the estimates have got technical and administrative sanctions of the District Planning & Monitoring Unit (DPMU).“All the documents and correspondences available wit...