Complaint lodged
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 28 2022:
There is a growing apprehension of wages for MGNREGA being withdrawn fraudulently in Changamdabi Gram Panchayat under Andro Constituency as 11 job card holders lodged a complaint to Porompat police station over the matter today.
As per the complaint lodged to police, the job card holders want the authority concerned to initiate an investigation against the Pradhan of the Gram Panchayat and Manipur State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) to ascertain how the money was withdrawn from their bank accounts without their knowledge.
After lodging the complaint, one of the job card holders Md Salauddin from Yairipok Changamdabi Mathak said that they only got their passbooks for the bank accounts opened at MSCB in 2018 without their knowledge only on November 23 this year.
Saying that they found out about the record of money withdrawal from their bank accounts while taking out statements, he added that they were never informed about the deposit of money in their bank accounts other than the Ward Member distributing their wages occasionally.
He further expressed suspicion that the representatives of the Gram Panchayat and officials of MSCB might have a hand in the 'scam' .