Old age pension money of Dunguripali block, dist Sonepur has been grabbed. As per the complaint, a sum of 1 crore, 69 lakh 70 thousands and 900 hundreads were given to 20 officers in advance to distribute old age pension in 21 panchayats of Dunguripali block. But till date no accounts have been updated about the mentioned sum of money.
The money was given to Head Cleark, SEO, WEO, and 17 panchayat executive officers. Now, some of them are retired. The WEO is transferred. But none of the officers have returned the money nor have they produced any account of the same. Repeatedly notices have been circulated to return the money. BDO Ripunath Suna says, salary of 8 EO has been stopped as they have ignored the notice.
In the past years, to distribute the pension, panchayat EOs had taken lakhs of rupees in advance. After distributing the pension on every 15th of the month the remaining money should be returned to block cashier through the SEO. But the involved EOs used to keep the money in their accounts. In the next month again they used to withdraw lakhs of rupees but they were not providing the accounts of the previous months. The remaining amount become around 1 crore. In the last August the pension money was deposited in the account of the Panchayats informed, Kalpana Panda, SEO.
The surprising fact is SEO Kalpana Panda has kept advance amount of Rs 5 lakh 63 thousands to distribute pension. The transferred WEO Brajabandhu Behera has kept 97 thousands. The retired EO Damodar Pandey has kept 7 lakh 44 thousands and 6 hundreads. Then Head cleark Kshiteswar Bhoi has kept 3 lakhs 44 thousands, EO Bishwamitra Pradhan has kept 24 lakhs 88 thousands. Satyanarayan Barik has kept 1 lakh 26 thousand, Gagan Bihari Nayak has kept 1 lakh 24 thousand, Nandi Padhan has kept 23 lakh 35 thousand 9 hundread, Bishikeshan Sahu has kept 7 lakh 48 thousand, 5 hundread, Gopandhu Seth has kept 3 lakh 86 thousand 6 hundread, Brahmanand behera has kept 13 lakh 18 thousand 2 hundread, Sairat Khan has kept 9 lakh 22 thousand 4 hundread, Sujan Deep has kept 7 lakh 9 thousand 6 hundread, Kishor Jhankar has kept 17 lakh 20 thousand 3 hundread, Dhirendra Bag has kept 11 lakh 27 thousand 8 hundread, Akshya Bhoi has kept 10 lakh 79 thousand 4 hundread, Suresh Dehury is keeping 9 lakh 12 thousand 8 hundread, Nimain Nayak has kept 3 lakh 62 thousand 8 hundread, and Ramdhun Sahu has kept 8 lakh 60 thousand as advance money.
When BDO Ripunath Suna was contacted, he says, the money has not been grabbed. It is distributed. But those who have not given the accounts have been stopped salary. EO Gagan Bihari Nayak, Nandi Padhan, Sairat Khan, Sujan deep, Kishor Jhankar, Akshya Bhoi, and Ramdhun Sahu’s salary has been stopped.