Yugabda:
Bhubaneswar: Friday, 05 February 2016.
Human Right
and Right to Information (RTI) organisations showed concerns over growing
attack on RTI and HR activists in the
state. They have drawn attention of the authorities on the recent attack on an
RTI activist at Jashipur Block in Mayurbhanja District and demanded immediate
action against the culprits.
In a press
release a National Human Right Organisation Human Right Defender(HRD) has
informed that the physical assault on RTI activist and human rights defender
Mr. Pankaj Kumar Singh by contractors and other anti social elements in
Jashipur Block of Mayurbhanj district of Odisha.
In written a
letter to national human right commission, state human right commission and
other authorities on the issue HRD said,
“Pankaj has been targeted for filing RTI queries to expose irregularities and
corrupt practices used by administration in the allocation and use of funds
meant for development works in the area.”
According to
the sources, Mr. Pankaj Kumar Singh had exposed irregularities in the use of funds
in a road construction work from N.H.49 to Dharasahi under MGNREGA scheme in
2014. On his exposure the administration also ordered to recover a huge amount
of money to the tune of Rupees three lakhs from the contractors. He has also
brought to lime light the irregularities in road construction work undertaken
in other gram panchayats. The local
contractors had been targeting him since for the last few months.
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