Coimbatore: Madhapur has blown a hollow in the Swachh Bharat claims of the Tamil Nadu govt as the bathroom rip-off unravels in the district. District collector T N Hariharan held a meeting with the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) and panchayat officials on Wednesday. He said he'll start up motion towards the erring officials.
“We visited all of the toilets built underneath the scheme and clicked photographs on Wednesday. We additionally checked the beneficiary lists and cross-checked the information. We found some discrepancies in funding for construction of 10 toilets underneath the Swachh Bharat project. Under the MGNREGA scheme, just about 30 toilets that had been claimed had been outdated toilets. These 30 toilets had been built by residents several years ago and we will make sure that the cash is recovered,” said Roopan Shankar Raj, undertaking director, DRDA.
Senior officials of the dep. said they will start up motion towards the over-seer (accountable for undertaking implementation on the village level) and the block coordinator. “They shall be suspended,” said a senior reputable. Apart from them, the engineers, block development officer and panchayat secretary can be penalized underneath 17B of the Tamil Nadu Civil Services, Discipline and Appeal Rules, for incurring financial losses to the government and the cash shall be recovered from them.
State officials accountable for the SBM said that previous, when MGNREGA scheme used to be applied, several discrepancies had been brought out. “Under SBM, it is totally online. It is on the implementation level that those problems get up. If inspections are performed, such issues shall be avoided one day,” said the reputable. The officials added that if this rip-off used to be now not brought out, bills would were made for 48 bathroom claims. “These 48 toilets had been built several years ago however had been repainted and pretend beneficiaries had been posing. So, we will be sure that that they're going to now not be paid,” said an reputable.
“We visited all of the toilets built underneath the scheme and clicked photographs on Wednesday. We additionally checked the beneficiary lists and cross-checked the information. We found some discrepancies in funding for construction of 10 toilets underneath the Swachh Bharat project. Under the MGNREGA scheme, just about 30 toilets that had been claimed had been outdated toilets. These 30 toilets had been built by residents several years ago and we will make sure that the cash is recovered,” said Roopan Shankar Raj, undertaking director, DRDA.
Senior officials of the dep. said they will start up motion towards the over-seer (accountable for undertaking implementation on the village level) and the block coordinator. “They shall be suspended,” said a senior reputable. Apart from them, the engineers, block development officer and panchayat secretary can be penalized underneath 17B of the Tamil Nadu Civil Services, Discipline and Appeal Rules, for incurring financial losses to the government and the cash shall be recovered from them.
State officials accountable for the SBM said that previous, when MGNREGA scheme used to be applied, several discrepancies had been brought out. “Under SBM, it is totally online. It is on the implementation level that those problems get up. If inspections are performed, such issues shall be avoided one day,” said the reputable. The officials added that if this rip-off used to be now not brought out, bills would were made for 48 bathroom claims. “These 48 toilets had been built several years ago however had been repainted and pretend beneficiaries had been posing. So, we will be sure that that they're going to now not be paid,” said an reputable.
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