THE RASHTRIYA Oriya Yuvak Pratisthan demanded a judicial probe by a judge of the high court, into the water resources department scam.
Srikant Padhi, president of the youth organisation along with other office bearers had held a press meet here in Berhampur (Orissa) and stated that the government had taken 12 years to complete some projects. Moreover, it could complete only nine irrigation projects out of the total 33 under Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP).
Padhi while lamenting the sorry state of affairs in the water resources department of the state came down heavily and blamed the bureaucracy for the delay. Moreover, due to the lack of political will, such projects had not been completed yet. Till date, there 24 such projects remains uncompleted, lamented Padhi.
While accusing the state government, Padhi referred to the CAG report that indicates a scam worth in crores. He alleged that more than 850 crore of cheating was unearthed in the water resources department. The CAG report has clearly blamed the state government and the later too didn’t bother to form any monitoring committee to look into the matter seriously.
Padhi also lamented due to the delay in works of these said projects by the water resources department, there is a burden of another 3537 crore on the public exchequer.
Hence, they sought a judicial probe by a judge of the high court into the scam in the water resources department. Those, who are involved should be brought to book, demanded Padhi while appealing to the state government to complete such projects as soon as possible.
Moreover, Padhi has also informed that they are going to file a Public Interest Litigation in to the multi crore scam in the water resources department headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
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