Centre & West Bengal govt appoint nodal officers to address MGNREGA dues and corruption concerns
Mamata Banerjee's recent meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on pending MGNREGA dues and various central schemes, two nodal officers have been appointed by the Centre and two by the Bengal government to resolve the issues.
Sadvi Niranjan Jyoti, Union minister of state (MoS) rural development, who was in Kolkata on Wednesday to attend some political programmes, said, «People of West Bengal are also our own. Their rights cannot be snatched or taken away by any individual or “parivaarbaadi” (who pursues dynastic politics) people.
We will not allow that to happen.”
»There are certain pockets in the state where Rs 4 crore corruption, including Darjeeling, took place. Our aim was not to stop the funds… but the corruption should be probed,” the Union minister who visited the Kalighat Temple said.
«When West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, two nodal officers from the Centre and Bengal were appointed. Please conduct a probe (to the Bengal government) on corruption and solve the problems...We have no intention of stopping funds.
If we had such an intention, we would have stopped funds of PM Awas Yojana, Sadak Yojana and other schemes but we did not do it, Sadvi Jyoti said.
Last year in October, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee along with party MPs had staged a dharna in New Delhi on the pending dues for MGNREGA and various central schemes. The Trinamool MP had also taken some beneficiaries, who had not received their dues for more than two years, to the national capital.
