Orissa High Court yesterday asked the State government to file a response to a PIL filed challenging its failure to appoint a Lokayukta though two years have gone by after the central Act was passed. The division bench of Chief Justice Vineet Saran and Justice B.R. Sarangi issued notices to the chief secretary and the law secretary and posted the matter to after two weeks for hearing. <br/><br/>The authorities have been directed to file affidavits within two weeks. Notably, the Odisha Assembly had passed the Lokayukta Act in February 2014 soon after enactment of the central law. Odisha even claims to be the first state to enact the law after Parliament passed its own. Under the Lokayukta Act, the activities of the chief minister, former chief ministers, other ministers and public servants come under the purview of a six-member anti-corruption panel.