Gross irregularities were found in the money spent under the NRHM by the Madhya Pradesh Government in the past five years in the rural areas of the State in the CAG report submitted to Accountant General of Madhya Pradesh. The facts were revealed after an audit report of CAG was obtained by RTI activist Ajay Dube from the Accountant General of Madhya Pradesh.
Based on the audit report RTI activists Ajay Dube has claimed that the deprived rural population of the state which is not capable of availing medical facilities have been cheated by the senior officials who have usurped huge amounts of public money meant for providing medical facilities for the deprived ones of the state.
Dube added further that an International Institute DFID has written a letter to the health department of the state and alleged that there are no serious efforts on curbing the rampant corruption in the health department and the letter claimed that among the 11 government services health department is the most corrupt, the state ranks among the top 5 corrupt states in the country.
Institute has funded many welfare schemes in the past several states and was forced to demand explanation after leakages were found in the welfare schemes of the state government.
In the audit report procured by RTI activists Ajay Dube irregularities were found.
For the past three years in the last quarters of the financial year a total of around Rs 289 crore was spent which was strictly prohibited.
The medicine department has procured medicines worth crores of rupees but the details of the use, distribution and consumption is missing.
For the past two years around Rs 171 crore is lying unused. Around Rs 67.40 crore was spent on schemes without obtaining permission and it was found that several NGO’s of big shots were given huge amount of money under these schemes.