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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NREGA: Govt to look into FIR filed in Re 1 wage

NREGA: Govt to look into FIR filed in Re 1 wage

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published Published on May 11, 2011   modified Modified on May 11, 2011
The state government on Tuesday assured that it will examine the First Information Report filed for paying extremely low wages to MGNREGA workers in Gudliya village in Tonk district. The FIR had charged six village mates for paying just Re 1 as wages to about 99 workers.

However, after protests by members of various organisations during the monthly meeting of NREGA, minister for rural development Bharat Singh assured that the department will find out as to why just the village mates had been named as accused and not any government official.

About 99 labourers from Gudliya village in Tonk district had toiled hard for 11 days to dig a check-dam under the MGNREGS. However, they were paid just Rs 11 for the work. That is, Re 1 for each day's labour. After the incident came to light, the government ordered a special inquiry into it.

The inquiry not only brought to fore largescale anomalies but had also indicted several officials. However, none of these persons have been named in the FIR.

"In the report, the assistant engineer had accepted the fact that though the total expense of the work in the village was worth only Rs 60,810, payments were made to the tune of Rs 40,80,472. This clearly exposes the fact that false measuring books were filed and payments were made in the village. So it is not just the village mates but even the engineer who even accepted his fault should be named in the FIR," the members told the minister during the meeting.

The report had also said that the engineer who endorsed payments of Re 1, 7, 12 and 19, had visited the spot on May 19, 2011 and found that the register recorded the presence of 150 persons when only 69 were working. Meaning, there were 44 persons whose names were falsely recorded. "The question is that when the assistant enginneer was present and he saw that the names were falsely recorded, why he did not initiate action immediately. This clearly proves even his as well as the the village mates' involvement," the members said.

Later the workers, as a mark of protest, gave the money to the chief minister's relief fund.

Officials of the rural development department said the FIR naming the village mates could just be the first in the series of action. However, the members were not willing to take any of this.

The Times of India, 11 May, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/NREGA-Govt-to-look-into-FIR-filed-in-Re-1-wage/articleshow/8229858.cms


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