Bhubaneswar, June 22 (IANS) Acting on concerns raised by Leader of Opposition Naveen Patnaik, Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary has written to the BJD president informing him that the Department of Financial Services under the Union Finance Ministry has taken serious note of the alleged harassment faced by tribal man Jitu Munda at an Odisha Grameen Bank (OGB) branch in Malliposi, Keonjhar district, in April this year. The Department has directed Regional Rural Banks to ensure …
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Bhubaneswar, May 2 (IANS) Naveen Patnaik, BJD chief and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Odisha Legislative Assembly, on Saturday wrote to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, expressing anguish over a shocking incident involving a bank in Keonjhar district. On April 27, Jeetu Munda, a 50-year-old tribal man from Odisha, took the drastic step of placing his deceased sister’s skeletal remains outside a rural bank branch to prove her death and claim her savings.Jeetu was distressed by the b…
Bhubaneswar, April 30 (IANS) The Revenue Divisional Commissioner (Northern Range), Sangram Keshari Mohapatra, who has been entrusted with investigating the shocking incident in Odisha’s Keonjhar district — where a man was allegedly forced to exhume his sister’s body and carry her skeletal remains to a bank for processing a death claim — on Thursday said that the preliminary probe points towards negligence on the part of bank officials.Mohapatra, who initiated the investigation on Thursday, v…
Bhubaneswar, April 30 (IANS) The Special Session of Odisha Assembly began on Thursday amid massive uproar over the shocking incident in Keonjhar district, where a tribal man exhumed and carried his sister’s skeletal remains to a bank after being asked by bank officials to produce a death certificate and legal heir certificate to initiate the death claim process a few days ago.As soon as the session commenced, Congress members, holding placards, assembled near the podium of Speaker Surama Padhy a…
Bhubaneswar, April 29 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Keonjhar Collector and Superintendent of Police (SP) to initiate an inquiry into an incident in which a tribal man exhumed and carried his sister’s skeletal remains to a bank after officials allegedly demanded a death certificate and a legal heir certificate to process a death claim. Acting on a petition filed by noted rights activist Manoj Jena on April 28, the apex rights body has also asked the Keonjha…
Bhubaneswar, April 28 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Tuesday expressed deep sorrow over the shocking incident in which a tribal man exhumed and carried his sister’s skeletal remains to a nearby bank in Keonjhar district after being asked by bank officials to produce a death certificate and legal heir certificate to initiate the death claim process. Asking officials to be more empathetic towards the people, Chief Minister Majhi ordered a probe into the incident by the Northern…