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| Who was behind Rs 450 cr liability in MGNREGA? | | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
srinagar, June 17: The Jammu and Kashmir government has now itself admitted that the liabilities in the vital Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) are mounting with each passing day, with helmsmen finding it difficult to tame the crises.
During the ongoing budget session, the issue related to the liabilities created in MGNREGA was raised in the upper house with legislators demanding the reasons behind such whooping liabilities that too when the Government of the India (GOI) is releasing the funds against the approved plan each year for the scheme.
The state government in its reply while admitting the liabilities mounting into MGNREGA, has stated that the fund release during the financial year could not match the demand of the work which according to the government has resulted into creation of liabilities.
Reports, however, informed that there are more than 450 crore rupees created as liabilities in MGNREGA with government finding it difficult to pay wages to labourers and pay the cost of material used for executing development works.
Reports informed that though more than eight months have passed since the labourers have completed their assigned tasks, there is no money paid to them as wages by the government. Such a practice while making such a vital scheme a flop show in Kashmir has further violated the guidelines of MGNREGA.
The state government here earlier had assured that the Centre had sanctioned Rs 375 crore under MGNREGA which would be released by the state finance department to clear the liabilities immediately after the reopening of the Durbar move offices in the summer capital of the state on May 9.
Pertinently, the total liabilities of the state under the MGNREGA scheme till April were around 420 crore. The Centre had provided the state nearly Rs 375 crore, which were with the finance department.
However, the documents in possession of the Early Times reveal that despite the GOI's release of the whooping 375 crores in one go, the liabilities haven't been yet cleared by the JK government with people associated with the scheme crying foul over such a sorry state of affairs. According to the official documents, there are still more than 156 crore rupees as liability with the state government of labourers and construction workers. Reports informed than merely fifty percent of the liabilities have been cleared while the government is indecisive over the pending amount. If sources are to be believed, the irregularities and mis-management in the concerned department has resulted into such severe crises on ground wherein the government is itself in a fix over how to channelize the flow of funds. Despite the GOI pulling up the previous regime in Jammu and Kashmir over the mess it has created into various schemes that otherwise were meant for state's overall development, the government here seems to be in no mood to rectify the wrongs. |
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