Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

    Government of India often comes with schemes for the weaker section of society but unfortunately schemes started for the poor not often reaches to the target audience as money evaporated more then half due to concerned officer’s and bureaucrats greediness which he/she uses to exploit general public share and thicken their pockets. Such views was also expressed by late Prime Minster of India Mr. Rajiv Gandhi that money forward for the welfare of public shrink to just one fourth before it reaches to the public. U.P.A. government have launched during its first term in the office National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, better known as NREGA but know change name by dedicating it to father of nation Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, its main objective is to provide employment to the unemployed youth of rural areas for minimum hundred days in a year and they are entitle for 100 rupees per day as remuneration, but as per news some states are not running the scheme with honesty and sincerity thus making the holes for agents and corrupt bureaucrats to siphon off money and even some cases’ despite doing work labourers not gets their remuneration and in some cases officers make job cards of dead persons and swallowing money on the name of dead persons, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is running by Central Development Ministry and to arrange work and payment of labours is conduct by concerned states different department. Below are some stories relating to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act as frauds in different part of country which highlighted by media –

• Constituency of U.P.A. Chairperson Sonia Gandhi is not escape from the scam as labourers were not paid by authorities which reveal after the probe by deputy commissioner and it is prove that officers swallow the money of workers.
• Across Utter Pradesh score of cases found in different district where workers exploited, and in one of the district of Utter Pradesh Chitterkute fake job cards were made and officers had swallow the funds and put the money in their pockets.
• One of the district in Madya Pradesh job cards were issued to the persons which are dead and they are getting money from government on papers but in reality they are no more to work and paid.
• In another case also from Madya Pradesh, one labour lost his life because he dare to ask his remuneration from the sarpanch and when sarpanch deny to pay him then he said that persons which are not even working are getting money but despite he has worked still not get money, it make angry to sarpanch and he killed the worker by beating him with lathi’s.
• Still in Madya Pradesh in another district labourers were paid with Rupees one remuneration and total more then hundred persons employed under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act for one fortnight but only paid with rupees one remuneration against government fix price of Rupees hundred.
• Bihar state also have cases of fraud related to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and as per belief near about 110 billion rupees was siphon off in this fraud and it put under clouds of suspicion to Chief Minster of Bihar Mr. Natish Kumar.

     Words of Late Prime Minister Mr. Rajiv Gandhi are true that money spends by Government on social work often not reached its target and out of Rupees 1 only fifteen paisey reaches to the public. To check corrupt bureaucrats, Government of India is considering to constitute special team officers, and these officers could be recruited next year, there main responsibilities will be to have eyes on to the schemes started by government for society and they will make sure that these schemes reached at grass root levels. If everything will goes as per plan, then after getting green signal from planning commission, then three hundred officers will appoint as Independent Evaluation Officers (I.E.O.), and to recruit new cadre, bill will be present in the parliament, after the bill cleared by both the houses then in the next year, Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) will host, all India level examination, and these officers will be in Group A service of the country. Ambitious scheme of central government Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, its feedback reaching to the government is not encouraging as it’s benefit are not reaching to the poor people of the country for whom this scheme was started. That is why Central Government is enthusiastic to recruit these new cadres which will look not only effectively into the government’s plan to reach its beneficiaries across country but also stop misuse of funds.