NREGA: Day before public hearing officer makes fake payments
Sanjay Sharma had earlier reported about Late Panditram of Khajuri village in Surguja who had died while working for NREGA but his widow was still wandering for wages. Then they announced a public hearing on the subject. A day before the hearing administration went to Khajuri and made fake entry of 100 days of work in Panditram’s job card, when he did not work for that many days and took away the bank account to deposit the money. For more Sanjay Ji can be contacted at 09754332440
Posted on: Mar 06, 2011. Tags: NREGA SANJAY SHARMA
NREGA : Lucky ones get less wages, rest unpaid after 18 months
Prakash Gupta in Bilaspur village of Batauli block of Surguja district is interviewing two laborers who have got wages of Rs 70 per day after working in NREGA when the wage rate was Rs 100 at that time which has now gone up. But Prakash says these laborers are lucky one as rest of them have not been paid any money one and half year after the work. For more please contact Prakash at 07697852665
Posted on: Mar 04, 2011. Tags: NREGA PRAKASH GUPTA
Panch withdrawing NREGA money for whole village raises questions
Sanjay Sharma is talking from Bisarmani village of Mainpat block of Surguja district in Chhattisgarh where he witnessed that a Panch of the village is collecting NREGA wages from Bank on behalf of the whole village. Sanjay asks how is bank allowing this? This process can be misused for taking out momey after creating forged musterrolls and must be investigated. Bisarmani is not the only village where this system is operational but other department like forest etc are also using this method. Sanjay can be reached on 09754332440
Posted on: Mar 02, 2011. Tags: NREGA SANJAY SHARMA
On 3rd death anniversary widow still roaming for NREGA wages
Sanjay Sharma from Ambikapur in Surguja district of Chhattisgarh is talking about third death anniversary of 36 year old tribal laborer Somar Sai who died on 29th Feb 2008. Before his death Somai Sai worked for 29 days in a road construction work in his village under NREGA. In last 3 years after his death his wife Laxmi has managed to get only half of his wages of Rs 900. His Job card no was 147 and registration no was 0168001155. His wife needs your help to get rest of the wages. For more Sanjay can be reached on 09754332440
Posted on: Feb 28, 2011. Tags: NREGA SANJAY SHARMA
If people are not paid for 2 years in NREGA how will they survive?
A girl child from Pota village in Lakhanpur block says there are many problems in her village. She first talks about problem in primary and middle school and then she says people have not been paid in NREGA for more than 2 years. She says there is problem in Indira awas, pension for aged, water etc but if people are not paid in NREGA for so long then how will the poor people survive? For more details please call 08959484474
