BRAHMAPUR: Again State Governments’ Annagiri has become a hot discussion among the people of Ganjam, when Brahmapur Vigilance SP JN Hansda inaugurated the newly formed horticulture nursery on the confiscated farm house of IAS officer and former RDC Ramesh Behera at Bhaliagada village under Golanthara police station of Ganjam district on Wednesday.
According to Hansda, when Behera was vice-chairman of Cuttack Development Authority (CDA), vigilance had registered a case against him for possession of disproportionate assets. After court order, his property has been confiscated.
The farm house having 2.868 acres of land in Ganjam was in the name of his wife Bhagyashree Behera which was taken over by the Government and in the farm house with building situated over the land turned into horticulture nursery on Wednesday.
“We will use this nursery for production of different fruit, vegetable and flower saplings and for the welfare of the farmers’ community. Farmers of Rangeilunda will be benefited from this centre,” said Deputy Director of Horticulture Chandrasekhar Patra at the inauguration of the nursery.
It may be noted that Odisha is the second state after Bihar to use properties of corrupt official for public purpose. It was the second instance, last month during the observance of vigilance awareness week; the State Government had transformed a confiscated house building of a retired IAS officer Sanjeev Kumar Ray at Gandamunda in Jagamara of the State capital into a homoeopathic dispensary for public purpose.
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