The State Vigilance has undertaken a special drive since June 25, 2017 to check pilferage of development funds being utilised for rural housing schemes at block level.
“The special drive is meant to prevent and detect corrupt practices on the part of public servants associated with the administration and implementation of schemes like Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Gramin) and Biju Pucca Ghar Yojana (BPGY),” informed an official release.
The Vigilance been decided to target one core developmental areas where it would take up exercises to find out various corrupt practices like allotment of houses to fictitious beneficiaries, misappropriation of funds without constructing the house, inclusion of ineligible beneficiaries, exclusion of eligible beneficiaries, demanding bribe at the time of issue of work order and releasing payments at various stages of construction of houses, submission of fake photographs of kutcha houses to make people eligible for pucca houses and submission of fake photographs of houses at different stages of construction to claim release of installments.
By now, the Vigilance has initiated enquiries on six petitions, conducted 15 secret verifications, and registered four criminal cases.
It has requested rural people to inform the Vigilance Directorate in toll free No 1064, Twitter Account-https://www.twitter.com/ odisha.vigilance, Face Book https://www.facebook.com/odisha.vigilance and e-mail ID-spvigcoord@gmail.com about the corrupt practices relating to rural housing schemes.