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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | CAG brings out drop in MGNREGS employment-Girija Shivakumar

CAG brings out drop in MGNREGS employment-Girija Shivakumar

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published Published on Apr 24, 2013   modified Modified on Apr 24, 2013
-The Hindu

 

Fault lies with States, unfair to blame Centre: CAG source

The Comptroller and Auditor-General has found serious lapses in implementation of the UPA's flagship programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

In its second performance audit submitted to Parliament on Tuesday, the CAG said employment under the MGNREGS declined, funds were being diverted for other use and possible irregularities related to wage payments occurred.

The audit covers implementation of the scheme from April 2007 to March 2012 and was done on a request from the Rural Development Ministry. Records of 3,848 panchayats in 28 States and four Union Territories were checked.

The supreme auditor has found a significant decline in the per rural household employment generation, from 54 days in 2009-10 to 43 days in 2011-12.

"State governments have been lax in implementation. The implementation on the ground has to be done by them. The fault therefore lies with the States. It is unfair to blame the Central government for this," a highly placed source in the CAG office told The Hindu .

"If the implementation is not done by the State governments, the Centre is quite helpless." The audit reveals irregularities in payment of wages. In eight States, there were cases of suspected misappropriation of funds to the tune of Rs. 128.23 crore as no vouchers supporting payments were available on record.

The report notes, "The poorest of the poor were not fully able to exercise their rights under the MGNREGS." Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh had 46 per cent of the rural poor in India, however, they accounted for only 20 per cent of the total funds released under the scheme.


The Hindu, 24 April, 2013, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/cag-brings-out-drop-in-mgnregs-employment/article4649027.ece


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