By Express News Service
JAGATSINGHPUR: Jagatsinghpur has turn out to be the primary district within the state to make public the belongings and liabilities of its district administration officers as a step in the direction of higher transparency and reforms.
The choice was effected on Tuesday on the event of 72nd Republic Day, following the State authorities approval of a proposal concerning submission of property declarations by authorities officers in a Cabinet assembly chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, final month.
It had been resolved within the assembly that each one folks’s representatives and authorities employees would declare their belongings and liabilities yearly. The knowledge can be positioned in public area and replica of the identical can be despatched to the State Lokayukta as properly, the assembly had determined.
Subsequently, the district administration on January 9 had directed all officers to submit property declarations by January 31, most of which was uploaded on its official net portal on Tuesday.
Some of the federal government officers who submitted their belongings and legal responsibility particulars are Collector Sangram Keshari Mohapatra, Assistant Collector Akshaya Badu, Deputy Collectors Ajaya Mohanty and Arundhati Patnaik, Kujang BDO Amiya Kumar Panda and the district social safety officer Sambhunatha Rout.
Contacted, Collector Sangram Keshari Mohapatra stated, “This is the first such initiative in the district. All officials will submit their property details by January 31.”
