By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: The Opposition BJP on Monday launched a contemporary assault on the State authorities over alleged corruption and embezzlement of funds below the flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
Alleging huge irregularities within the implementation of MGNREGS works and billing false labour expenses throughout the State through the Covid-19 pandemic, BJP State common secretary Prithiviraj Harichandan mentioned greater than 40 per cent of the expenditure proven in information is misappropriated by producing false payments.
Though the target of the scheme is to supply employment to the poor, works value tons of of crores had been executed by contractors utilizing machines and well-off individuals had been beneficiaries of the scheme, he alleged. Pointing out that six members of the family of girl sarpanch of Kuspangi panchayat below Dampara block of Banki sub-division are job-card holders and lakhs of rupees had been paid to them as wages, Harichandan advised reporters that her husband, who’s president of Biju Yuva Janata Dal of Dampara block, is a job card holder and obtained each day wage of Rs 215 below the scheme.
He additional alleged that the father-in-law of the sarpanch, a PDS supplier, has two buildings and her mother-in-law is the proprietor of three automobiles. Most of the members of the joint household have made overseas journeys. The State authorities had final yr introduced to dig up round 1.3 lakh ponds throughout the State below the MGNREGS.
The BJP chief additional alleged that greater than Rs 30 lakh has been billed with out setting up bunds and digging ponds in three blocks of Ganjam district. One bund estimated at Rs 5.45 lakh at Bharatpur panchayat in Buguda block has been proven as accomplished and the cash has been wolfed up. Two extra works, one in Polasara block with an estimated price of Rs 10 lakh and one other in Khallikote block with a price of Rs 15 lakh, are but to begin however the whole invoice has been cleared by the block officers involved.
