AGARTALA, February 1 (TIWN): “As a man in opposition, only I, in the committee, raise the issues where no other ones enquired from Chief Minister about the same and moreover my words are not given any due consideration”, said Birjit Sinha, the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) President Birjit Sinha, to TIWN. In this regard, it needs to be mentioned that a state level committee named as State Employment Guarantee Council is there to look after the Rural Employment Guarantee Act (REGA) subject in the state. And it exists in all the states. The task of the committee is policy making and suggesting new ways for generating work, which are not there in the existing Act. “No he is very straightforward and prompt in this regard and urge that action should be taken and he instructs the member of Legislative Assembly too”, said one of the members of the committee (who did not want to be named), while talking to this correspondent, when he was asked what the CM opines when the issue of scams are reported to him.While replying to the question what are the reasons that even after the revelation of one after another scams, a section still dares to commit misdeeds, the member stated: “See such instances you would hardly where not a single amount has been spent and the entire fund has been misappropriated but yes at times the underutilization and inadequate output come across and it is something unwanted”, said the member.

  He further told that sometimes deviations from the guidelines (as you know it is 300 pages long) happen but all deviations should not be reported as misappropriations or scams. “….. But wherever gross irregularities are found you will find actions are taken”, the member further added, who is neither an MLA nor an MP from the ruling party.

The member insisted to make it clear that all deviations are not misappropriations. The REGA works are to be made performed complying with a ration of 60:40, where 60 percent works should relate to unskilled works and 40 percent should be construction based (semi skilled and allied).