Daily Pioneer: Bhubaneswar: Friday, September
07, 2018.
The Odisha Soochana Adhikar Abhiyan on
Wednesday demanded the Governor to conduct an inquiry into non cooperation by
the Odisha Information Commission (OIC) and the Odisha Public Service
Commission (OPSC) in providing complete data under RTI Act to an aggrieved over
irregularities in an examination conducted for the Junior Lecturer posts in
2010 by the OPSC.
Addressing a Press meet here, Abhiyan
convenor Pradip Pradhan said one Sudarshan Maharana of Angul district appeared
for the examination.
But as he failed to the clear the
examination, on April 18, 2011 Maharana through the RTI Act asked the OPSC to
provide his answer sheet copy and the photo copies of those who have cleared
the examination.
He also said there were allegations of
gross irregularities in evaluation of the examination copies and massive
corruption in selection of candidates. After getting no reply from the OPSC,
Maharana again on May 30, 2011 knocked at the doors of the OPSC through the RTI
Act.
But as the Public Information Officer
(PIO) provided misleading information by not providing the answer sheet copy
sought for. Consequently, Maharana on October 10, 2010 lodged a complaint with
the OIC regarding the matter.
Hearing the complaint, the OIC on
February 10, 2012 asked the OPSC to provide the carbon copy of the answer sheet
and as per the direction of the OIC, the latter on July 2, 2012 provided the
photocopy of the answer sheet, which was incomplete and misleading.
Interestingly, in the photocopy of the
answer sheet provided by the OPSC, it was found that the answer sheet was
mischievously given wrong marks. Maharana later approached the OPSC Chairman
and demanded for a probe into the matter but in vain.
As it was alleged that the first page of
the answer sheet was manipulated, again on February 6, 2015, Maharana knocked
at the doors of the General Administration (GA) Department and asked for
photocopy of the first page of his answer sheet. Later, the GA Department sent
a letter to the OPSC and as the OPSC didn’t give a reply of the letter,
Maharana again lodged a complaint with the OIC.
And in 2017, State Information
Commissioner Sashiprava Bindhani started the hearing and asked the OPSC to
provide the first page of the answer sheet for which the OPSC was forced to
provide the same. Pradhan said the data provided by the OPSC in 2017 was not
matching with the data provided earlier and demanded the OIC conduct an
inquiry.
But the OIC said Maharana that all the
data was provided and the file closed.
Maharana on August 16, 2018 has also
submitted a letter to the Governor to probe in the matter. Maharana, meanwhile, threatened that he would
knock at the doors of the Orissa High Court in the matter in coming days.
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