Block development officers fail to provide jobs under MGNREGS

Dehradun lokpal has received four complaints from job card holders as block development officers have failed to provide them work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

It should be noted here that State Government had appointed lokpal in each district to bring transparency in MNREGS execution and redressal of complaints received from the job card holders.

A department official said that Raipur MlA Umesh Sharma ‘Kau’ had also recently registered a written compliant to the lokpal as job card holders in his constituency did not receive job under MNREGS for the last many weeks even though Raipur BDO was informed about it. His complaint was rejected in the lokpal Court because Sharma had not disclosed the name of the aggrieved card holders. 

Two complaints regarding same were also received from Raipur block.  Following this, Dehradun lokpal JR lapar has directed the BDO concerned to provide jobs to the card holders soon.  

In his written complaint, a complainant from Vikasnagar said, “I am unemployed and I want to work under MNREGS but I should be assigned with clerical works,”.  In the lokpal court, his complaint was rejected because clerical work is not given under MNREGS.

Dehradun district development officer Sanjay Singh said that the Central Government has approved around ` 3.88 crore under MNREGS to the district this year. According to him, the district had received around 10.98 crore for the execution of MNREGS from the central government in the last year. 

Around Rs 10.54 crore was spent on providing jobs to the card holders. A total of 10, 330 families have been given jobs by creating 4.93 lakh Manav Diwas under MNREGS in the district. 

As many as 641 works related to construction of roads and Government buildings, minor and major irrigation and others were completed in the district. 

As many as 228 families were given 100 days work.A total of 73, 839 families including 15, 843 belonging to Scheduled Castes and 17, 174 belonging to Scheduled Tribes had procured job cards under MNREGS from the department.

Department had released around 78.56 lakh to the linear departments like Peyjal Nigam, Irrigation, Public Works Department, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry and others and officers concerned have been directed to spend this fund as a labour component for completing their projects.