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Job scheme to be made graft-free

Thiruvananthapuram: District panchayat president Remani P. Nair has promised steps to ensure that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee programme (MGNREGP) remained free of corruption and exploitation.

She was presiding over a meeting convened to review the Plan fund activities of the district panchayat here on Thursday. Members cutting across party lines, highlighted the need to root out corruption in the implementation of the programme.

They pointed out that exploitation was rampant at the grassroots level. There were instances of the same work being repeated. Members said it was shameful that those responsible for implementation of works were turning a blind eye or abetting corruption. It was slur on the Father of the Nation after whom the plan was named.

Several members said the provision to provide hot water, gloves and medicines for the labourers were observed more in the breach, yet it was mentioned in the expenditure statement. There were workers drawing wages without doing work while others were denied work. The meeting decided that the panchayat would take up major works under the employment guarantee scheme that were beyond the capacity of gram and block panchayats to execute. The panchayat president said a system to monitor the programme in each block would be put in place soon.

Vice-president Rufus Daniel, standing committee chairmen Aanaad Jayan, M.S. Raju, Malayinkeezh Venugopal and block panchayat presidents attended the meeting. New works under the employment guarantee scheme submitted by eight gram panchayats were approved.

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