'Duped' Job card holders file police complaint
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, November 28 2022:
As many as 11 job card holders of Changamdabi gram Panchayat under Andro assembly constituency filed a complaint at Porompat police station against fraudulent withdrawal of fund for wages of job card holders provided under MGNREGS from their bank accounts without their knowledge.
Interacting with the media after submitting the complaint at Porompat PS on Monday, Md Salauddin, who spoke on behalf of the complainants, informed that the job card holders have not been getting clear information about the wages for the jobs they have done under MGNREGS since 2018.Records show that around Rs 40,000 have been transferred into the respective bank accounts of each job card holder in the last five years.
However, none of the job card holders has received the amount till date except for Rs 1000 to Rs 2000 from time to time.
No passbooks were provided to the job card holders until October this year.
The fraudulent withdrawal of fund came to light when they went to get update their bank passbooks on November 22 after getting the passbooks, he elaborated.
Further revealing that all the withdrawals were found tagged as paid to self in the account statements, Md Salauddin contended the fraudulent withdrawal is not for a few job card holders but for over 1000 beneficiaries.
He then urged for a thorough investigation to find out the truth and bring those involved to justice.