Bandipora, July 11, KDC: Former minister and former MLA Bandipora Usman Majid has expressed serious concern over the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme in Bandipora district. Expressing strong anger and disappointment, Majid has demanded an immediate and fair inquiry by the Jammu and Kashmir Vigilance Department, which is not only shocking to the revelations, but also calls the direct betrayal of the trust renovated by the public and the central government.
Majid said, “It is deeply surprising that the laborers outside Jammu and Kashmir are engaged in Magraga in Bandipora, a plan especially to benefit our unemployed local laborers,” Majid said, Majid said, Majid said in a statement to Srinagar -based news agency Kashmir.com.
He further alleged that the MGNREGA card is being used to immerse money in the accounts of relatives and the accounts of GRS. He revealed that the lower level employees, especially GRS, are in the heart of this Nexus, appoint their own relatives, make fake work records, and withdraw funds in their personal and family accounts. Some contractors also have hand-in-guoves in this network, allowing mass misuse of public funds. He said, “Machines are being used for work, while being manual, while paying the payment is manipulated and incorrectly. What we are seeing is not just negligence, it is a well -or -circle scam. The system is kidnapped and changed to mafia,” he said.
Majid also stated that instead of the entire communities benefiting from development work, the scheme has been manipulated to serve personal interests, especially with political links. He admitted that some honest and young officers are trying to prevent danger, but their actions are being reduced by a connivance of corrupt elements.
He said, “The issue has been politically politicated to preserve the issue incorrectly. There is a dire need to have a detailed audit of property and assets associated with the implementation of MGNREGA in the district,” he said.
Believing the situation with the policy of the public trust and the central government, Majid has urged Lieutenant Governor’s administration and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to intervene personally. “Let us do not allow a poverty-deviation scheme to become a playground for corruption. MGNREGA’s soul is being crushed. It is necessary that we work now, weed corruption, and restore the basic spirit of transparency, fairness and local empowerment of the scheme,” they concluded. (KDC)