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Posco clash: Orissa shifts officer, Oppn demands inquiry by Debabrata Mohanty

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published Published on Dec 18, 2011   modified Modified on Dec 18, 2011

Two days after a clash at the proposed Posco site that left one person dead, the Orissa government on Friday shifted senior IAS officer Priyabrata Patnaik from the post of chairman-cum-managing director of Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO) even as the opposition continued to demand a CBI or a judicial probe into the incident.

With just about a year to retire, Patnaik, a 1976 batch officer, has been posted as additional chief secretary, Pension and Public Grievances department. Pradip Jena, secretary in the Panchayati Raj department, was given the additional charge of IDCO CMD.

Patnaik, who was also the nodal officer of the Rs 54,000 crore Posco project, came under scrutiny after IDCO pushed the construction of the 10-km long coastal road from Indian Oil Refinery at Paradip to the Posco project site. This is not the first time the 1976-batch officer has landed in controversy, In April 2008, Patnaik was made an officer without duty over his alleged involvement in the murder of Biranchi Das, the coach of marathon prodigy Budhia.

The incident led to a heated discussion in the Assembly on Friday, with the opposition questioning the role of the IAS officer in the construction work. Raising the issue through an adjournment motion, opposition leaders had questioned the IAS officer’s links with Bapi Sarkhel, a contractor whose firm was constructing the road. They alleged that Sarkhel was given the contract for the road without any tender floated. Congress leader Santosh Singh Saluja demanded that the CBI or a High Court judge probe the matter.

Sources said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik was upset with the way in which IDCO escalated work at the coastal road construction in spite of the massive opposition against it. “Such an incident is most unfortunate. Those responsible will be dealt with most severely,” Patnaik said in the Assembly.

Meanwhile, Posco on Friday opened a new office at Nuagaon area of Jagatsinghpur district to facilitate its public contact programme at the project site.

CM: Cong pro-Posco at Centre, opposed here

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday turned the tables on the Congress over its opposition to the Posco project, saying he found the stand taken by the national party “intriguing”. “Every time I meet the PM in Delhi, he tells me Posco is the biggest FDI in our country... It is intriguing the Congress in the state is opposing the project. It puzzles me why the Congress in Orissa is opposing the project when the Congress at the Centre is sincerely pursuing it,” he said.

The Indian Express, 17 December, 2011, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Posco-clash--Orissa-shifts-officer--Oppn-demands-inquiry/888770/


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