Bartaman-Editorial 03/03/08
A month back, Suryakanta Misra, the district panchayat minister of West Bengal announced the glorified details of the rural-employment scheme. According to him, West Bengal tops the chart, provisioning jobs to maximum number of families as compared to all other states of India. However, merely a month later, Controller and the Auditor General reports that there has been severe alteration in data by the state government.
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, popularly known as the 100-days-employment scheme amongst the downtrodden, started in 2006 and completed two years on 2nd February. The false claims of Suryakanta, as propagated by Leftist pet-newspaper Ganashakti proclaimed that under this scheme some 31 lakhs and 61 thousands families got jobs in the period of 2006-2007. Later this number was further exaggerated to 39.5 lakhs for the CAG report.
It was later disclosed that the panchayat intentionally repeated the same family names in order to project higher statistics. They have given job to same family multiple times rather than separate families. Hence the increased count is misleading. CAG auditors reviewed the proceedings in the villages of Purulia, South Dinajpur and West Midnapur disclosing the shocking reality.
As per the pre-budget economic analysis, West Bengal consist the maximum number of impoverished families, struggling below the poverty line. National percentage of such populace is 1.9% where as in West Bengal it’s a shocking 9%. Instead of catering to the needy, the so-called government for the underprivileged has squandered national funds, exploiting the poverty-stricken people of the state in the process. Is someone from the government answerable to such heinous crime?
translated from the Bengali newspaper Bartaman
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