Post News Network
Bhubaneswar, Feb 15: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in its report on the general and social sector for the year ending March 2014 has picked several holes in the implementation of poverty alleviation schemes such as Indira Awas Yojana (IAY), Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) and Mo Kudia Yojana (MKY).
As per the CAG report, 2,98,062 houses were sanctioned in seven test-checked district rural development agencies (DRDA) under IAY during 2009-14, of which the DRDAs were able to complete only 1,93,255 houses (64.84 per cent) as of March 2014.
The remaining 1,04,807 IAY houses remained incomplete despite availability of Rs 75.35 crore with DRDAs in the period. The DRDAs built less than 20 per cent of houses in a year due to inadequate monitoring, the CAG pointed out.
For satisfactory implementation of the programme, officers dealing with IAY at the state, district and block levels should closely monitor all aspects of the scheme through field visits, the CAG noted.
The state government failed to meet the target even in the case of implementation of MGNREGS. In seven DRDAs, 3,11,080 works (75 per cent) out of 4,16,502 taken up during 2009-14 under the programme remained incomplete despite availability of Rs 20.08 crore with DRDAs as of March 2014, the auditor said.
Around 82 per cent of projects taken up during 2009-11 were not completed even after a lapse of three years of sanction.
Similarly, state-funded Mo Kudia Yojana (MKY) and Biju Gram Jyoti Yojana are also not being implemented properly as in some districts the funds sanctioned for the schemes have been diverted for other purposes.
