TIWN July 23,2017
AGARTALA, July 23 (TIWN): 2017’s rainy season bared CPI-M Govt’s corruption laden MGNREGA, PWD projects across Tripura as severe life-threatening sufferings are being experienced by inhabitants due to poor condition of roads. TIWN correspondent visited various places outskirts of Agartala and witnessed Manik Sarkar’s so called ‘Golden Era’. TIWN interacted with villagers and found ‘DUMRAKARIDAK To TULSIRAMPARA" under Sidhai Mohanpur/ Hezamara R.D. Block PWD & MGNREGA works for villager road already washed away in 2017’s rain. Pathetic scenes of regular accidents, apathy of local BDO, SDM to repair Hezamara Block’s roads reflected Manik Govt’s organized corruption.
Tripura’s massive corruption with MGNREGA funds by Manik Sarkar’s CPI-M Govt prompted Central Govt in tightening noose around CPI-M’s tainted machinery and pet IAS officers.
After the bitter experiences from Tripura and few other rouguestates regarding MGNREGA incomplete works, unpaid labour budgets, the Central RD Dept. has called Tripura RD Principal Secretary GSG Ayyangar to sit in a consultative meeting with Centreal RD Dept on April-21, whereas discussion was focused on "Consultative meeting on Focused Monitoring for timely payment of wages to MGNREGA Workers in FY 2017-18 and Standardization of Case Record-Reg.
In spite of Centre's strong message, Manik Govt’s organized corruption continue.
However, it's fact that after the 2 yrs of struggle led by the Central RD Ministry to clear the unpaid wages (due to CPI-M’s evil plans), now the Govt is planning for a fresh journey with better transparency as fast as possible, closing the maximum door for loopholes.
Reportedly, Principal Secretary GSG Ayyangar was given left and right via video conference held on March-28, 2017following 3 yrs of pending wages. On that time during month of March in a notice has been published in MGNREGA website and letters also sent to the RD Principal Secretaries of some states which failed to clear the unpaid wages of the labours even after SC's direction. In the letter sent by Govt of India, under File No; 1815/ 9/ 2016-MGNREGA-IV was directly subjected to "Payment of Compensation of delayed payment of wages to the workers and issue of delay compensation rule/ advisory by the State Govt-Reg". However, since last 2 years the direct beneficiary has although solved the problems of the workers but the unapid amounts of earlier years before beneficiary system was launched are yet to be paid to the workers. But such issues would never raise by Tripura Ministers, but thanks goes to Modi Govt's initiative for transparency of data releasing that has eased the way of exposi9ng corruptions.
Before that in May-2016, June-2016, July-11, 2016 and 24th March-2017 in total 4 times Centre had sent notice to Tripura Govt and this notice has been given as final notice without extending the time anymore. However, along with Tripura there are some other states who received the final notice. Tripura was also given notice for incomplete MGNREGA works.
The notice clearly wrote, "As per Section-23, sub-section-3 and the process laid in Section 33, Sub-Section-2 of the MGNREGA state govt may frame rules of payment of compensation. In absence of the rule the state govt till time, the rule is frames, may issue advisory/ executive instruction, to the functionaries for payment of the compensation of delay in wage payment".
However, after all the messes, now Centre has caught the hands of states more tightly to marginalize the corruption rate under RD Dept with MGNREGA scheme.
Life threatening condition of main road from 'DUMRAKARIDAK To TULSIRAMPARA" under Sidhai Mohanpur/ Hezamara R.D. Block not only shows CPI-M's mass corruption but a reminder of State's dark future ahead.
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