The Pioneer, Bhubaneswar. Date:11.07.2011.
The tribal dominated Nabarangpur district is just limping and not operating at a normal pace due to a large number of vacancies at the officers level are dogging the vital organs of the administration. Nabarangpur was formed into a district in 2nd October 1992 being bifurcated from erstwhile Koraput district, since than the journey has been a bumpy ride for the people of Nabarangpur. Initially the district did not have the required infrastructure and now when infrastructure is being made available there is dearth of officials to man the office.
Earlier the collectorate had to operate from the RMC complex, over the years funds flowed in and today a new collectorate is constructed, besides District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), District Headquarters Hospital (DDH) got its new building, so did the district Treasury Office, Office of superintendent of police.
However despite the entire infrastructure the situation is not better with several important posts lying vacant. Nabarangpur district does not have a Project Director, DRDA, RTO, District Horticulturist, Sub-Collector, Revenue Officer, APD DRDA,(Administration) Chief District Veterinary Officer (CDVO), and District Sub-Registrar, Three BDOs, Jharigam, Kosagumuda, Dabugam, and Three Tahasildar also.
Apart from the posts Kosagumuda, Dabugam, Jharigam, BDO, Nandahandi, Jharigam, Raighar, Tahasildar, two posts of Assistant engineer, and three posts of Junior engineer are vacant in RW and D, Umerkote.
On the other hand ADM, Narendra Pradhan, is promoted and transferred while Umerkote BDO, Banshidhar Mallik, promoted and posted as ADM, Nabarangpur, there will be another vacancy of Umerkote Block
There is a dearth of specialists at the community health centres; the District headquarters hospital has ten vacancies, including that of seven specialist doctors. Key posts in the departments such as medicine, orthopedics, skin, anesthesia, pathology and surgery are yet to be filled at the DHH. At primary health centers, while thirty posts of surgeons are vacant, no doctors were posted in the past ten years for eleven specialist departments. Surprisingly, at least twenty hospitals in the district are being run by only health workers and nurses while some hospitals are managed by fourth class employees.
While implementation of development programmes is bearing the brunt of these vacancies, fifty vacant doctors posts in district have thrown health services into disarray.
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