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Pradhan, Member pulled up for violating guidelines
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 07 2020:
Whereas a show cause notice has been served on a Pradhan and Member for flouting the MGNREGS guidelines, one Gram Rozgar Sahayak (GRS) has been suspended for not monitoring MGNREGS works properly.
After a video clip of a woman working alone at Konthoujam Gram Panchayat Ward No 5 went viral on social media, RD& PR Minister Th Biswajit went to the village the next day (August 31) to make a field assessment.
The woman was found working alone on the particular day too.
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On being enquired, the woman disclosed that she was told four days' wages would be deducted out of 20 man-days sanctioned under MGNREGS for her particular ward.
At this, the woman requested the ward Member not to deduct any wages as her husband was also left jobless on account of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ward Member responded by forcing the woman to work alone.
On interaction with the Pradhan concerned and the ward Member, it was learnt that they struck an agreement with 245 job card holders (out of 246 job card holders registered within the particular ward) that the job card holders would be given wages for 16 days without doing any work while the wages for the remaining four days would be shared between the Pradhan and the Member.
Signatures of many job card holders were found absent on the muster roll for works done earlier.
In some other registers, the signatures looked like they were appended by a couple of individuals.
Infuriated by such utter disregard of rules and guidelines, Biswajit made it clear that all those people who were involved in manipulations would not be let off.
Subsequently, the RD&PR Director issued a notification whereby Konthoujam Gram Panchayat GRS Loitam Erani Devi was placed under suspension.
Blaming the Konthoujam Gram Panchayat Pradhan and ward members for counterfeiting signatures of job card holders, the RD&PR Director served show cause notice on the Pradhan and the ward Members as to why no action should be initiated against them for their attempt to reduce the number of sanctioned man-days.
The show cause notice is returnable within four days.
The District Programme Officer has also asked the Imphal West MGNREGS CEO to lodge an FIR against the Pradhan and the ward Members, if necessary.
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