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Lapses in rural job scheme alleged

Staff Reporter

BHUBANESWAR: A New Delhi-based voluntary organisation, Centre for Environment and Food Security (CEFS) on Wednesday alleged serious irregularities in the implementation of Orissa Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (OREGS).

Terming its preliminary findings `shocking, scandalous and outrageous,' CEFS Director Parshuram Ray said, "our survey findings have revealed that there is participatory loot, plunder and pillage in OREGS." The CFFS presented its survey findings at a press conference here. Out of 100 sample villages covered under the survey, 18 villages did not receive any job card and there was no job for 37 villages even after 16 months of launch of the scheme, he said.

"We found many villages where OREGS work is going on without any villager having received job card. Most of the villages where employment has been given, only half or one third of the wage payment was made and that too after four to six months of the work," Mr. Ray said. As many as 11 villages had received neither job cards nor any jobs, he said.

"In 13 villages, we found several irregularities," he said.

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