Lucknow: Finding fault in the
implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee
Scheme by the Uttar Pradesh dispensation, the government
auditor has said that suspicious payments were made under the
scheme with money given twice to 194 people having the same
name.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) said the UP
government failed to provide necessary administrative and
technical manpower to implement the scheme.
The report submitted in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative
assembly states that the performance audit of the scheme which
was implemented in the state from February 8, 2007 in 39
districts revealed that requisite level of inspections were
not conducted by the district and block level officers.
It was found that full time officials dedicated to the
scheme were not appointed and block development officers
were made scheme officers.
Since the BDOs at the block level also had the burden
of other schemes, the additional pressure of NREGS had an
adverse impact of the implementation of the Central schemes
(NREGS), the CAG report said.
The report said that one 'Rozgar sewak' each had to be
appointed at every 'gram panchayat' level but it has been
found that almost 32 per cent 'rozgar sewaks' had not been
appointed in the total 2,230 gram panchayats and the technical
norms were implemented in only 68 per cent them, causing delay
in payments to beneficiaries.
Bureau Report
First Published: Tuesday, August 04, 2009, 23:54