Bhubaneswar: A notification, purportedly issued by Principal Secretary of finance department in December 2012 providing temporary status to daily labourers in all state government departments engaged prior to December 31, 1997, has turned out to be fake.
The notification dated December 24, 2012 signed by principal secretary of finance department states that the government has decided to extend a scheme for granting ‘Temporary Status’ in order to absorb casual or daily wage labourers engaged in various government establishments prior to December 31, 1997 against regular Group-D vacancies, a senior finance department officer told Orissa POST Tuesday.
“We do not know when the resolution was issued. We learnt about it recently after a court sought to know why the government has not been acting on its order (on the basis of the fake resolution),” said an official who did not want to be named.
The finance department had issued a resolution No 31715/F dated September 4, 2012. The resolution says the scheme would be applicable for daily labourers engaged in various state government establishments prior to April 12, 1993.
While the original resolution is of six pages, the fake one is just a one-page notification.
After the incident, the finance department has advised all administrative heads against implementing the purported notification.
“It is clarified that Resolution No.56321/F dated 24.12.2012 purportedly issued by finance department is a fake one and no such resolution has been issued by the department,” a finance department memorandum said.
“All government departments, heads of departments and other offices are advised not to take cognizance of the fake resolution being circulated to all government offices. In case, any decision/action has already been taken on the basis of the aforesaid resolution, the same may be reviewed and revoked immediately,” said the memorandum, a copy of which is available with Orissa POST.
Notably, a similar notification has been issued by labour and employees’ state insurance department. Motilal Gouda, a former assistant director of directorate of factories and boilers (Medical), had generated a fake notification dated October 16, 2015 advising industries in the state to get health check-ups of their staff done at one of five ’empanelled’ pathology labs in the state. The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of state crime branch registered a case against him in June. He was arrested in July and released on bail recently.
Biswa Bhusan Mohapatra
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