Saturday, April 23, 2011

Bihar Government failed to use MGNREGA funds, says Ram Vilas Paswan

Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) president Ram Vilas Paswan alleged that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had failed to utilise funds for MGNREGA in the state and asked him to bring status reports on implementation of the scheme.

Talking to reporters in Patna on April 19, 2011, Paswan said the MGNREGA was demand based and funds were released by the Centre to the states based on the labour demand arising at the field level. He said the NDA government in Bihar had failed to utilise MGNREGA funds of Rs 471.66 crore during 2007-08, Rs 871.38 crore and Rs 541.33 crore during 2008-09 and 2009-10 respectively.

Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui

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