01/05/2012

Four booked for IAY, MNREGA irregularities

Patna,(BiharTimes): The East Champaran Police on Monday seized 226 passbooks and documents of central schemes like Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) and MNREGA from four persons, including a lady Mukhiya. Four persons have been booked for irregularities.

Acting on a tip off by some people, police teams carried out simultaneous raids at the residences of Mukhiya, Ranju Devi, Dakpal, Umashankar Singh and Mukhiya's associates, Ganesh Yadav and Anup Sah and seized the passbooks and job cards.

According to Superintendent of Police (SP) Ganesh Kumar the Dakpal, posted at Shankar Saraiya post office, was detained and questioned in connection with recovery of the IAY and MNREGA passbooks and job cards from non-beneficiaries.

He said the former’s role in irregularities in implementation of the central schemes was under investigation. An FIR has been lodged by the Tripolia Block Programme Officer Raghunath Kumar against the mukhiya, her husband Jaiprakash Chaudhary, Rojgar Sevak, Manoj Kumar Chaurasia and Panchayat Sevak, Satyendra Prasad at Tripolia police station in connection with seizure of the IAY and MNREGA passbooks and job cards.

The SP said the Dakpal too could be booked if he was found to be involved in irregularities in the IAY and MNREGA schemes, he said.

 

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