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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Order CBI probe into NREGA fund loot, Jairam Ramesh tells Mayawati

Order CBI probe into NREGA fund loot, Jairam Ramesh tells Mayawati

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published Published on Oct 27, 2011   modified Modified on Oct 27, 2011
-The Economic Times
 
Congress sharpened its attack against BSP, with Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh accusing the Mayawati government of embezzlingMGNREGA funds. In a letter to the chief minister, Ramesh asked the state government to seek a CBI probe into "violations and cases of deliberate embezzlement of funds" in the implementation of the Centre's flagship programme. 

Ramesh pointed to alleged siphoning of funds earmarked for the rural employment guarantee scheme in seven districts - Balrampur, Gonda, Mahoba, Sonbhadra, Sant Kabir Nagar and Mirzapur. "Surely, if the state government has nothing to hide and has a clear conscience, it should have no objection to our request to have a thorough CBI inquiry conducted into MGNREGA implementation in some districts of the state," Ramesh said. 

He also charged the Mayawati government with not taking action on the findings and recommendations of either the Centre-appointed National Level Monitors or the State Quality Monitor. "I am sorry to say that the state government has not been taking any worthwhile action on the findings and recommendations of these National Level Monitors (NLMs). 22 NLM reports, which have pointed out grave irregularities, have been pending for action with the state government for months together. It is not just the findings of the National Level Monitors that have been ignored by the state government. I find that findings of the State Quality Monitor (SQM) himself in relation to the implementation of MGNREGA in the four districts of Sonbhadra, Mirzapur, Kushinagar and Sant Kabeernagar have been ignored," Ramesh wrote. 

He said while the Centre was within its powers to withhold funds for UP, it will not do so as it would only "amount to penalising the poor people of the state for crimes committed by officials at various levels and their political patrons." In doing so, the minister questioned Mayawati's commitment to the weakest sections of society. Pushing the state government to a corner to prove its bona fides, Ramesh said the state government should give its concurrence for a CBI probe. "Such an inquiry would ensure and expedite justice to the weakest sections of society," he wrote. 

Ramesh did not miss the opportunity to draw attention to the scam in the National Rural Health Mission in the state. "The criminal conspiracies in these districts to defraud the central and state governments appear to be as scandalous as what has been the case with the National Rural Health Mission in the state which is the subject of an on-going CBI investigation," the letter states. 


The Economic Times, 26 October, 2011, http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-10-26/news/30324174_1_jairam-ramesh-cbi-probe-order-cbi


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