Paswan for CBI probe into NREGA schemes

Lok Janashakti Party president and former union minister Ram Vilas Paswan demanded a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in NREGA, urban bodies and distribution of food grains.
"The Principal Accountant General (PAG) in his report, submitted to the state government recently, had highlighted glaring irregularities in execution of schemes under NREGA, urban bodies and distribution of foodgrains involving the state's Food and Consumer Affairs department," Paswan said at a press confernce in Patna on October 20, 2009.
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