Founding principal of Roshni Nilaya Dr Olinda Pereira is no more
Mangaluru: Former principal of School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya, and noted social worker Dr Olinda Pereira passed away at 95 on Sunday.
Dr. Olinda, a PhD holder of Mysore University, is the founder Vishwas Trust.
She has served as a Director and has taught in many prestigious institutes in India and abroad. She, as a professor, taught thousands of graduates. She was active in women's activism. Dr. Olinda also served as a member of the National Women's Committee in 1979.
She was conferred with various prestigious awards, including the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize for her humanitarian and social service.
Funeral on June 1
The body of Dr. Olinda Perera has been kept for public viewing at the auditorium of Roshani Foundation in Valencia here. The final rites will be performed at cemetery in Valencia at 3.30pm on the June 1.
In the wake of coronavirus, public will not be allowed to attend the funeral. The body will be kept for public viewing till 7 pm today and from 7 am to 3 pm tomorrow.
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Chhattisgarh coal levy scam: Rs 4 crore assets of suspended IAS officer attached
Raipur (PTI): The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has attached properties of Rs 4 crore belonging to suspended IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi, an accused in a coal levy scam, for allegedly amassing assets beyond his known sources of income, officials said.
The EOW had registered a disproportionate assets case against Vishnoi in July 2024, an official release said on Saturday.
During the investigation, the agency identified nine immovable properties, valued at around Rs 4 crore, allegedly acquired through illicit means in the names of Vishnoi’s family members and associated firms, it said.
“An application seeking attachment of these properties was filed before the Special Court under the Prevention of Corruption Act in Raipur. Following a hearing on April 17, the court ordered attachment of all such properties,” the statement said.
Accordingly, the Anti-Corruption Bureau/Economic Offences Wing attached the properties. The attached properties cannot be sold or transferred, it said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier provisionally attached five immovable properties linked to Vishnoi in connection with the coal levy scam, it added.
Proceedings are also underway in cases involving other public servants, including action taken in September last year against properties linked to Saumya Chaurasia, who was deputy secretary in the chief minister’s office during the Congress government, the statement said.
Vishnoi, a 2009-batch Indian Administrative Service officer, was first arrested in 2022 by the ED in connection with the alleged coal levy scam. He was among several accused who were granted bail last year by the Supreme Court.
The case refers to an alleged Rs 540 crore racket between July 2020 and June 2022, when an illegal levy of Rs 25 per tonne was being extorted by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen for every tonne of coal transported in the state.
