Cards under MGNREGA issued in names of deceased, govt employees in Nuh; 9 booked

Sanjay Yadav

Gurugram, August 2

A scam under the MGNREGA Act has come to the fore in Nuh district wherein job cards were issued in the name of several deceased persons and government employees.

A case of embezzlement of Rs 21 lakh has been registered against nine persons, including Panchayat and Irrigation Department officials and a bank manager at the Rojka Meo police station.

Villager Sukhbir Singh filed complaints on the public grievances portal, CM’s window, besides writing to Home Minister Anil Vij, Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala. He alleged that funds were being released in the names of some deceased persons and government employees under the MGNREGA scheme. The scam involved making job cards of such persons and opening bank accounts in their names in remote areas.

The CM flying squad found that the office of Block Development and Panchayat Officer (BDPO), Indri, and Irrigation Department officers and employees made job cards of deceased persons, government employees and showed them working at the Indri link drain and Khedli Kankar link drain under MGNREGA.

It was later found that the work was actually got done by deploying JCB machines of Ted Mohammadpur village resident Salim.

The investigation revealed that seven job card holders (residents of Khedli Dausa village) were already dead, while two other persons of the same village had been working at the Nuh roadways depot since 2008. It was embezzlement of government funds. “A sum of Rs 21,28,651 was withdrawn under the MGNREGA scheme from fake bank accounts by officials,” read the complaint.