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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Death stirs up Ranchi bosses

Death stirs up Ranchi bosses

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published Published on Feb 18, 2012   modified Modified on Feb 18, 2012
-The Telegraph

The state rural development department has asked for a report from the Latehar district administration on Wednesday’s death of a 14-year-old girl while she was working in a well being constructed under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

In a letter issued today after The Telegraph carried a report highlighting the tragedy and its overall implications on the tardy implementation of the Centre’s job scheme in Jharkhand, rural development secretary R.S. Poddar asked Latehar deputy commissioner Rahul Kumar Purwar to provide full details of the incident.

Poddar has also asked the deputy commissioner to explain under what circumstances the girl, a minor who was not supposed to be working on a MGNREGS project in the first place, went inside the well.

Palpati Kumari of village Palheya was working on the well on behalf of her father, Rampyari Singh, when the tragedy occurred. Two others, Anita Kumari, also 14, and Rajmani Devi, 22, who were with her, survived the ordeal with injuries.

“We received an interim report from the Latehar district administration yesterday that a MGNREGS irrigation well beneficiary’s daughter had died after falling in an under-construction well, while two others were injured. But we want details. What was the girl doing inside the well if she was not a job card holder?” D.C. Mishra, additional secretary in the rural development department told The Telegraph.

According to sources in Latehar, the district administration sent a sub-divisional officer to Palheya in Manika block on a fact-finding mission today. The officer’s report would form the basis of the deputy commissioner’s account that he would send to Ranchi.

During the last two years, the state has managed to build only 20,000 wells under the scheme even as it started construction on 1.12 lakh. Of those constructed, more than 2,000 wells have collapsed due to monsoon showers.

To make up for its poor record, the state government issued a deadline to all MGNREGS beneficiaries to complete construction of wells by the end of the financial year.

But economists and activists closely monitoring the implementation of the scheme in Jharkhand have alleged that in the rush to meet this deadline, the state was being saddled with poorly built assets (in this case wells) that would ultimately yield nothing.

But rural development department officers defended their move. “Yes, we have issued a letter directing all to ensure completion of irrigation wells by March 31. While most of these wells were sanctioned in the current financial year, some others were sanctioned in 2009-10 fiscal. Every project has a deadline, but that can be relaxed in extreme circumstances,” said a senior officer.

The Telegraph, 18 February, 2012, http://telegraphindia.com/1120218/jsp/frontpage/story_15150938.jsp


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