nrega scam

As many as 48 people including government officials were booked in a scam of `4.18 crore in National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) in Dahod district. Those booked are sarpanches of 20 villages including 11 women sarpanches.

The BJP fine tuned its election strategy for the ensuing panchayat elections in Orissa at its state executive meeting that kicked off here on Wednesday.

Even dead people get paid for their work in Haryana. CAG auditors have found that under the Centre's employment guarantee scheme NREGA, the Haryana government has paid wages to even dead persons.

The encouraging words came while IAC volunteers doubted if Parliament would pass the bill this time.

The Reis Magos panchayat has come under a cloud for alleged misuse of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) funds where job cards were allegedly prepared in the names of people who never executed the works and monies were sought to be siphoned off in their names.