NewsHub.org: Bhubaneswar: Friday, 13 February 2015.
Six months before his tenure was to end, Orissa
Chief Information Commissioner Tarun Kanti Mishra has resigned from the post
citing “personal reasons”.
However, government sources said Mishra had been
under pressure following allegations over the past year by civil society
activists that he had amassed land from government agencies through false
affidavits.
Mishra, a 1975-batch IAS officer, was
appointed as CIC in November 2010, three months after retiring as state chief secretary. His tenure as CIC
would have come to an end on August 1 this year. Sources said
Pramod Mohanty, now information commissioner, would preside as CIC till a
full-time CIC is appointed.
In his January 5 resignation letter to
Governor S C Jamir, Mishra cited his desire to go on a long vacation to the US
as the reason for resignation.
In September last year, several RTI activists had
alleged that Mishra has taken multiple plots in his and his wife’s name. In 1989 he had taken a 3979
sq ft residential plot from Bhubaneswar Development
Authority. In 1992, he took a plot from general administration department in the name of his
wife Sunanda Mishra.
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