principal of Hirakud ITI trasferred after his involvement in misappropriation of government fund

Instead of taking action to recover the money, government just transferred the principal of the Hirakud based Insutrial training institute (ITI) to Behampur after a probe found his involvement in a misappropriation of government fund. The probe that was conducted by a group of senior officials constituted by state industry department had submitted its report to the government in January 2009 recommending stringent action against the erring officer with recovery of the misappropriated amount. But surprisingly information received through RTI act reveled that action could not initiate against him even after 11 months as the matter was under the consideration of CM who supposed to pass an order with consultation of the OPSE.

Sources said, Nisakar Mallick, that principal of ITI, Hirakud was allegedly misappropriated crores of government funds when he was in charge of workshop superintendent and DDO (drawing and disbursement officer of Rourkela based UGIE. Director of Technical education and training (DTE&T) under Industry department of government of Orissa appointed a committee in 2007 under the chairmanship of LK Mahapatra, present principal of Berhampur engineering school after serious allegation of misappropriation of government fund was made against the Mallick and few others. The committee after verifying the records and cash books of the institution found truth about the allegation against the Mallick and others. The committee placed its inquiry report before the government on 30^th January 2009 where the committee confirmed a misappropriation of government fund of a tune of above Rs. three lakhs against Mallick and two others. It was also recommended by the Committee to take stringent action against Nisakar Mallick and other to recover the amount from their pockets.

“We conducted the probe after the committee was constituted under my chair. We had 6 members in the committee which sits on various occasions to verify the records and vouchers of the UGIE, Rourkela. On verification we found a misappropriation of above 3 lakhs rupees of the government fund. So in our report we recommended to recover the amount from Sri Mallick and others.”, the principal of the Berhampur based Engineering School. Dr. L K Mohapatra told TOI over phone.

On the other hand, the principal of ITI, Hirakud Nisakar Mallick was transferred to Berhampur Engineering School as senior lecturer on 30^th Oct 2009 after the DTE& T, Cuttack recommended to Industry department for his immediate transfer from Hirakud. But department is not sure when action would be initiate against him to recover the misappropriate amount from his pocket as the same is under the consideration at the Chief Minister level. “We do not know it as the same is under the consideration at the CM level’, a senior official of the industry department confirmed.