The Pioneer, Sept 7, 2007
Pioneer News Service | Bhubaneswar
Critics have all along accused the Naveen Patnaik Government of being bureaucracy-driven. They have now some more instances to prove their point.
The Government has allowed PK Patnaik, Collector Kalahandi, to go on a visit to the United Kingdom when cholera epidemic is taking a heavy toll in the district. Patnaik has been allowed to hand over charge to the Additional District Magistrate. He, along with R Santhgopalan, Collector Balangir, and two senior officers of the State Watershed Mission, will visit the UK for a fortnight-long training on development management from September 6.
The officers will be able to rejoin offices only after September 26, said an official in the General Administration Department here. According to official sources, deaths due to cholera are continuing unabated in tribals-dominated Thuamul-Rampur block in the district. Though the official death toll is 27, NGOs and field level health workers put it at 48.
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