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| NREGS in MP beset with corruption |
| The digging work that should employ maximum people from this MP village was actually being done by machines.
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| INDIA
, 7-February-2008
0:39:49 AM |
| Madhya Pradesh has been making big claims about its high rate of success on National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Even the CAG report puts MP among the top five performers.
However, as NDTV travelled through Shivpuri district of the State, where the scheme had been introduced as early as February 2006, the paper claims lose ground fast.
Madhya Pradesh, a frontrunner under NREG:
1,443 lakh man days of jobs given in all
723 lakh man days jobs given to SC, ST
Rs 1,536 crore out of Rs 2,479 crore spent
As NDTV approached the ground where a pond was being dug under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
The digging work that should employ maximum people from this MP village was actually being done by machines.
''It's an employment guarantee scheme only in name. All the work is being done by machines,'' said Ved Prakash, resident, Khodh village.
Sixty five kilometre from Shivpuri at Sirsaudh, Dularibai told NDTV that she and her family members have got work but just for Rs 50 a day when the official payment is Rs 60.
''They don't do anything, only tell me to go to Shivpuri,'' said Dularibai, resident, Sirsaudh village. NDTV found glaring lapses in the job card list in the village.
One card is in the name of Manoj Sharma, a villager who is a judicial magistrate in Indore. Another card for Babulal a labourer who is dead for two years now.
And Ram Swarup Sharma, a prosperous farmer has not one but seven job cards issued against his name.
NDTV: Do you know there are seven cards in your name?
Ramswarup Sharma: No.
The scheme empowers village Panchayats to give upto 100 days of work to anyone who asks for it, jobs that are a lifeline in backward areas like this. But the success of the scheme relies heavily on the local men in power, members of the Panchayat.
The Panchayat Secretary who gives out the job cards, also a Brahmin, is accosted by angry Dalit villagers who think only the upper caste villagers are getting
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