Job card holders deprived wages
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 09 2011:
MGNREGS job card holders of Khullen Khailet village,Chakpikarong Block Village under Chandel district have been allegedly deprived off their wages for the year 2011-12 by the SDO of Chakpikarong block.
Speaking at a press conference held at Press club here today, Nekhojang Haokip, Chairman of Khullen Khilet village alleged that P Pana, SDO Chakpikarong Block had disbursed wages only for 30 days to 26 job card holders out of 60 households registered for job cards.
The amount paid to the 26 job card holders was also only Rs 1600/ person as against Rs 3780 thus misappropriating Rs 2180 from each job card holders.
Altogether, he had misappropriated an amount of Rs 1,85,200 from the wages of the job card holders in this manner, the chairman charged.
Apart from this the funds for material component amounting to Rs 1,00,800 had also been misappropriated by the SDO, he further alleed.
Nekhojan Haokip went on to say that SDO P Pana had also deducted 150 from each job card holders of Chakpikarong Block as Hill House Tax for three years.
Since there are about 7000 job card holders in Chakpikarong Block, the total amount misappropriated is around Rs 10,50,000 .
Condemning the attitude of the SDO, Nekhojan Haokip drew the attention of the authority concerned to look into.