Orissa Matters

NGO award to Naveen Patnaik should be enquired into

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Sycophants have congested Bhubaneswar roads as in thousands they are brought to the capital city to show strength of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to people who are crying to have their right to be administered in their mother tongue ORIYA.

Orissa has lost her mana in Naveenraj with her geographical boundaries as well as major river systems severely threaten by neighbouring provinces. Mr. Patnaik has never visited the border to stand with people, who are fighting for survival of their identity vis-a-vis the people of the rival tongues.

According to a none-contradicted confession of a treasury bench heavyweight in the Assembly, 93% people of Orissa do not understand English. But in Naveenraj, administration is working in English. People are kept in dark about how the government works. The Official Language Act, 1954 is being everyday violated by the CM and his team sans qualms.

Mr. Naveen Patnaik is marked for contravention of almost all the Acts enacted during his tenure as Chief Minister. He has even resorted to atrophy the Language Law by fraudulent means in order only to deny the people of Orissa their right to be governed in their State-Language.

There is not a single year within his tenure as Chief Minister when severe lapses in his governance is not reported by the Accountant General.

Yet a New Delhi based NGO styled Capital Foundation has conferred on him a dubious award under the pretense ‘Lifetime Achievement’. It seems the NGO has never verified the reality in Orissa and its study of Orissa scenario is absolutely superficial. This award given to Patnaik should be enquired into, as this is a design to mislead the people of Orissa that are perishing under his constant misrule.

Whenever Patnaik finds himself in political crisis and his public image appears comical even to his followers he feels, he cultivates such an award to dazzle the pewople of Orissa, a trick ETV in 2006 had trained him in.

The award in question is organised to hoodwink the people after his legislative misconduct was bared by the founder of Bhasha Andolan in his densely documented book Oriya Bhashaku Naveenanka MaranaAghata (Naveen’s deathblow to Oriya Language) and the Governor was moved to recall his assents to the amendments of Orissa Official Language Act, 1954.

Chief Minister should say if Buddhia Singh is dead or alive

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Onus lies on Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to show that the most celebrated child of Orissa Buddhia Singh is not dead.

It is he who had contested against Buddhia Singh in a state-managed fight to become “Priya Oriya” (the most popular person of Orissa) and in the final round had won the contest through mobile phone voting. The four year old illiterate child was a slum dweller and had not even known that a major TV channel (ETV) had dragged him to this contest. I had detailed the sordit game played against the poor illeterate boy in these pages at that time.

Narrowly survived in the contest, the Chief Minister was obviously affraid of nullification of the so-called election and exposuure of his mischief if Buddha Singh challenges the stage-managed victory of Naveen Patnaik.

His government subjected the legendary four year old boy to prosecution and destruction of his morale and surprisingly his mentor Biranchi Das was killed.

The Government had taken Buddhia forcefully into its care under the pretence of training him up in every possible professional way to become the world’s greatest marathon walker. What happened to him nobody knows. Neither the Sports Department nor the Child Development Department that had thrown Buddhia Singh forcibly into the care of the Sports Department is able to say where is he at the moment.

Bellow are a few links to my discussions on Buddhia Singh at that time.

ETV ORGANIZES ORISSA CM’S VICTORY OVER A FOUR YEAR OLD POOR BOY

BUDDHIA SINGH: VICTIM OF A POLITICAL VENDETTA

RULES RAPED: CHILD DEVELOPMENT MINISTER MISUSES POWER TO HARASS BUDDHIA SINGH

MEDIACRACY IN ACTION_NAVEEN VERSUS BUDDHIA SINGH IN ETV TRICKS: CREDIBILITY IS AT STAKE

The Government was conspicus with its silence over them.

Critically ill patients are pushed into savage death by the State Government, as 80% Blood Centres have no NAT-PCR screening

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Hospitals are meant to cure illness and give new lease of life to the patients. But blood transfusion is an area where patients may be pushed into savage-death if the infused blood is contaminated with HIV I&II, HBV or HCV. This is happening in Orissa, as 80% of Government Blood Centres in the State have no NAT PCR screening facility, despite a mandatory order of the High Court of Orissa in W.P. (C) No. 13441 of 2009.

This was a case of a three year old boy of Baramba infested with AIDS due to infusion of blood contaminated with the dreaded HIV obtained from Blood Bank of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). The shocked father of the Boy Sri Pratap Kumar Nayak had moved the High Court for direction to the Government for treatment of his only son. The State had claimed that the blood was ELISA tested and hence safe. After in-depth analysis of reality, in its judgment delivered on 28 July 2011, the High Court held the State Government responsible for the unsafe blood given to the unsuspecting patient and directed that NAT-PCR testing of blood in all the blood banks must be a must for the government. An excerpt of the verdict:

‘Needless to say that blood donated by one saves life of another. Donation of blood is a noble work. In order to achieve this avowed objective all necessary safeguards must be taken while collecting, testing, storing and supplying blood. Otherwise, instead of saving the life, the contaminated blood would take the life. It is not disputed that during window period, unless the special test known as Antizen test is conducted through Polymer Chain Reaction (PCR) method, the virus cannot be identified. Therefore, the Government must ensure that in all blood Banks the Polymer Chain Reaction (PCR) method is available to identify the virus of HIV during window period. We, further direct opposite party no.1-State to provide free medical treatment to the baby of the petitioner who is a HIV patient.”

The Government did not bother about implementing the Order. And on the other hand, mandarins of the health Department contemplated on moving the Supreme Court against the High Court verdict.

The victim belonging to my area, his father Pratap Kumar Nayak had attracted my attention to this problem. I had exposed the malady under the title “Shocking Reality: AIDS Being Aided by Government of Orissa”.

As the Government did not comply with the welfare order, we went on discussing the issue as often and as deeply as possible. This attracted attention of the then Opposition Chief Whip Prasad Harichandan, who raised a powerful debate in the Assembly over the matter. In reply to his motion, the Minister of Health assured the House on September 01, 2012 that the High Court Order would be fully honored and the Government will take all steps to install the NAT-PCR facility all over the State, to begin with the three Medical Colleges of the Government. ORISSA MATTERS recorded the development under an apt caption on September 02, 2012.

But the progress was impaired due to disposition of officials whose design to challenge the High Court order was defeated with the assurance of the Health Minister in the Assembly.

Young Odisha leader Amit Abhijit Samal moved the High Court in W.P.( C ) No.25727 of 2017 seeking implementation of the High Court order of 2011 in public interest. The mindset of Orissa officials is such that, in reply to the writ petition, they ventured to tell the Court in an affidavit on 25.07.2018 that, “A latest version of ELISA kits are going to be introduced throughout the State, which will substantially reduce the window period without much financial implication.”

Is the ELISA method as capable of detecting the above viruses in their window period as is NAT-PCR?

No. The Hon’ble High Court had observed in the 2009 case.

And the Directorate of Blood Safety, Odisha has also said so in a recent reply to a query under RTI.

Samples reported Negative in ELISA found Posive in NAT PCR

The Directorate has admitted that during the period from June 2016 to July 2022, as many as 2668 units of blood reported NEGATIVE in ELISA method were found POSITIVE in NAT-PCR test (Letter No. 676/SBTC, dt.22.8.2022).

This means, if the samples were not rechecked in NAT-PCR method, 2668 cases claimed to be safe due to clearance in ELISA could have severely affected the patients, exactly as had happened to the 3-year old victim of unsafe blood, a phenomenon which had formed the crux of W.P. (C) No. 13441 of 2009.

It is shocking that, despite office-records of the Directorate of Blood Safety, Odisha showing that as many as 2668 cases shown negative in ELISA test were detected positive in NAT-PCR screening, the officials of the health department have told the High Court in W.P.( C ) No.25727 of 2017 that “ELISA kits are going to be introduced throughout the State”. If anything it means, health department officials want unsafe blood to be infused to unsuspecting patients, as thereby “financial implication” would not be “much”.

According to the Directorate of Blood Safety, Odisha, the following Blood Centres have adopted NAT-PCR method: (1) SCB MHC, Cuttack, (2) VIMSAR, Burla, (3) MKCG MCH, Berhampur, (4) PRM MCH, Baripada, (5) FM MCH, Balasore, (6) SBB MCH, Bolangir, (7) SLN MCH, Koraput, (8) Capital Hospital, Bhubaneswar, (9) BMC Hospital, Bhubaneswar, (10) Central Red Cross Blood Centre, Cuttack and (11) OBC DHH, Jeypore. Orissa, according to this Directorate, has 55 numbers of Govt. Blood Centres. This shows that 80% of the Govt. Blood Centres are using ELISA method, which is, as shown above, incapable of detecting HIV I&II, HBV and HCV in window period their entirety. It otherwise means, 80% of Orissa Government Blood Centres are supplying possibly unsafe blood to unsuspecting patients. This further means, the Baramba case is being repeated in the areas of 80% Govt. Blood Centres in Orissa under the plea of “financial implication”. Sad, under such a fictitious plea, blood collected in 80% of the Govt. Blood Centers are given to critically ill patients, whose lives depend on Blood Transfusion, without them knowing that the blood given to them might be carrying the most dreaded HIV I&II or HBV or HCV.

If financial implication is not to be “much”, the Govt. should cover the ELISA dependent Blood Centres with the Centres where NAT-PCR facility is in operation exactly as it has done in cases of BMC Hospital Bhubaneswar, CRCBC Cuttack and OBC DHH, Jeypore. But the conduct of the Government is murkier than sincere in its approach to the terminally ill patients who live within geographical limits of 80% of the Govt. Blood Centres, mostly in rural areas and depend on blood transfusion for living.

Governor of Orissa urged to free himself from fraud in Official Language Act

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The Founder of Bhasha Andolan, Orissa Sri Subhas Chandra Pattanayak has urged the State Governor to free himself from the evident fraud in the amendment of the Orissa Official Language Act, 1954. He had submitted details of the fraudulence to the Governor on 6.5.2022 requesting him to please use his inherent power to recall his assent to the amendments of the Act, “as they were created by forgery, treachery, and fraudulence as well as in absolute contravention of the Rules of Business.”

Here is the same.

The Governor’s Secretariate run by Govt. Staff has sent the same to Principal Secretary to Govt. in the department of GA&PG on 24.5.2022 VIDE No.3642, with an instruction “for taking needful action” at his end and intimate Sri Pattanayak the “action taken report”. This particular Officer is a party to the alleged fraud and he has not yet carried out the order of the Governor.

On this background, Sri Pattanayak has addressed another letter to the Governor urging him to apply his mind to the issue and “to ensure that Orissa is not administered under fake and fraudulently made legislation.

Illegal land grabbing by ruling party MP fraudulently regularized: Lokayukta’s stance lackadaisical

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

A vast area of 12 Acres of very precious public land in the Capital City of Orissa under illegal occupation of Achyut Samant, presently a ruling party MP, who runs an educational business styled KIIT, has been fraudulently regularised.Lokaykta’s stance against this engineered fraudulence is lackadaisical, it seems.

As a dutiful citizen, Orissa Sochana Adhikar Abhijan Chief, eminent RTI activist Pradip Pradhan had raised a dispute against this foul play in the shape of a complaint before the Lokayukta, Orissa vides Case No. LY322/2021.

“……we find no merit in the allegation of complaint that Achyuta Samant, founder of KIIT is in illegal occupation of 12 acres of land worth Rs.250 crores in collusion with the officials of GA & PG Department”, the Lokayukta has said while closing the complaint on 9.3.2022.

From the reply of the State Chief Secretary, the Lokayukta has quoted, “KIIT did enter into litigation with the Estate Officer against the Order of eviction and since many years have passed, the final outcome of litigation is not known.”

When the Chief Secretary of the State admits that the Estate Officer had issued an order to evict Samant from the land encroached by him, and the encroacher had “entered into litigation against the order of eviction”, the final outcome of which is not known, he indirectly confesses that the concerned file is suppressed or missing in the department. The Chief Secretary has bragged that the missing of the file is obvious, “since many years have passed.”

What a great Statement by a great State’s Chief Secretary before the great Lokayukta of the State!

The Chief Secretary has admitted that the eviction order was passed against Samant “many years” ago, but the “outcome” of Samant’s litigation against that eviction order “is not known.” Records in the Lokayukta show that the illegally occupied land in four plots was leased out to Samant on 27.12.2019 and two more plots on 22.1.2021 and 22.7.2021 one by one. This is enough to make one convinced that Samanta’s litigation against the eviction order still stands or had failed “many years” ago. The Chief Secretary is discernibly silent on the failure of Samant’s litigation against the eviction order, which strongly suggests that, despite knowing that a valid eviction order is standing against the land under Samant’s illegal occupation, he, by himself or under orders of ther Chief minister, has allowed the involved landed property of the people to the trespasser Achyut Samant, the Chief Minister’s close friend.

The shenanigans behind this transaction need to be investigated in the best interest of the State. Instead of closing the case lackadaisically, it would have been better for the Lokayukta to order an investigation into conspicuous corruption in this stage-managed lease and to initiate action against the Chief Secretary for not knowing the outcome of the eviction case.

It is sad to see that the purpose of Law is allowed by the Lokayukta to succumb to the imprudence of a Chief Secretary who sans any qualms declares that the “final outcome of the eviction case is not known.”

The Lokayukta should review its own order and let the people know when the final outcome of the eviction case against Achyut Samant was not known, how could the Chief Secretary allot the involved land to the alleged culprit.

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seems to have developed a wrong notion that governance of Orissa in Oriya depends upon his mercy. His press-note of December 17 and full page display advertisement in major broadsheets of today force us to arrive at this apprehension.

In his December 17 press note it was declared that he had held a meeting with the five members of the ministerial committee on that day for the purpose of “strictly implementing the Orissa Official Language Act, 1954 in official and non-official level” to facilitate which a website has been floated by the government. In the full page multi-color advertisement in broadsheet dailies today, this is intriguingly missing.

The advertisement is designed to tell the people that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has taken historical steps to save and develop Oriya language, and has enumerated the steps he has taken. This is blatant lie. Neither he nor his government has executed any single item claimed to be “historical” in the official advertisement. The entire advertisement is nothing but false propaganda. What a shame it is, that, the people of Orissa are taken for granted by their Chief Minister! Read more →