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''Dalits, tribals in UP, Orissa not getting benefit of MNREGA''
PTI | 05:03 PM,Mar 29,2011
New Delhi, Mar 29 (PTI) Over 67 per cent of poor Dalit and tribal
households in Orissa and Uttar Pradesh did not get a single day of
employment under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee
Act last year, an NGO today claimed. The Centre for Environment and
Food Security also alleged widespread irregularities and corruption in
implementation of 10 food security and poverty alleviation schemes in
the most backward areas of the two states. The NGO's charges come
close on the heels of the Supreme Court asking the Centre to
expeditiously decide on a CBI probe into allegations of
misappropriation of funds meant for MNREGA in Orissa, as claimed by
the same organisation. The apex court had on March 14 said reports
prepared by the NGO, CAG as well as the National Institute of Rural
Development NIRD show that there is massive misappropriation of funds
to the tune of 88 per cent in some districts of Orissa. The CEFS'
present findings are based on a performance audit conducted by its
activists through sample survey in 130 villages spread over 12
districts of Orissa and UP (Bundelkhand). Releasing the report here on
the findings, CEFS Director Parashuram Rai said, "Only 7.3 per cent of
the sample households had received above 50 days of MNREGA
employment.Out of 2000 very poor households surveyed in Orissa, only
five of them received 100 days of work in 2010". Rai rubbished as an
eyewash the claims made by the Orissa government and the Centre about
Gajapati district setting an example by bagging the award for best
practices at the MNREGA awards 2009-10. "If anybody visits this
district, projected as one of the best in Orissa, they will be shocked
to see the level of poverty, unemployment and malnutrition", said the
activist, who also claimed that this was the most exhaustive report
prepared on the plight of Dalits, Adivasis and their non-inclusion in
these schemes. Rai claimed that a similar situation prevailed in
Bundelkhand, with over 52 per cent of the needy households not getting
a single day's employment.
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