<p>Imagine a dead man coming alive to receive wages and a paralytic patient working for a road-laying project. </p>.<p>Yes, it’s possible, say the documents pertaining to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme at Marodi Gram Panchayat in the taluk.<br />Ramanna ‘worked’ under the Scheme between March 20 and March 30, earning Rs 1,250 as wages. <br /><br />The reality is otherwise, He had passed away about one-and-a-half-years ago. <br /><br />Rathnakar Indra ‘toiled’ for a road-laying project almost during the same period. <br /><br />He had been paralytic for the last five years. The list doesn’t end here and surprises galore. <br /><br />A physically-challenged Narayana Moolya has ‘worked’ for 11 days on the construction of a vented dam. Gangamma, who cannot walk is enlisted as a worker for a road project. <br /><br />Irregularities<br /><br />The Peradi unit of the CPM has claimed large-scale irregularities to siphon off the MGNREGS funds in the Dakshina Kannada district. <br /><br />According to the memorandum it submitted to the Zilla Panchayat chief executive officer, documents had been created t o show that several projects were taken up in a span of days between March 20 and March 30. <br /><br />Huge sums of money had been claimed as wages for the proejcts that existed only on paper. <br /><br />The names of two anganwadi workers, a student and two bank employees also figure in the list of ‘beneficiaries.’ <br /><br />Majority of the works have been executed in the month of March. An inquiry had been ordered into the misappropriation of funds.</p>
<p>Imagine a dead man coming alive to receive wages and a paralytic patient working for a road-laying project. </p>.<p>Yes, it’s possible, say the documents pertaining to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme at Marodi Gram Panchayat in the taluk.<br />Ramanna ‘worked’ under the Scheme between March 20 and March 30, earning Rs 1,250 as wages. <br /><br />The reality is otherwise, He had passed away about one-and-a-half-years ago. <br /><br />Rathnakar Indra ‘toiled’ for a road-laying project almost during the same period. <br /><br />He had been paralytic for the last five years. The list doesn’t end here and surprises galore. <br /><br />A physically-challenged Narayana Moolya has ‘worked’ for 11 days on the construction of a vented dam. Gangamma, who cannot walk is enlisted as a worker for a road project. <br /><br />Irregularities<br /><br />The Peradi unit of the CPM has claimed large-scale irregularities to siphon off the MGNREGS funds in the Dakshina Kannada district. <br /><br />According to the memorandum it submitted to the Zilla Panchayat chief executive officer, documents had been created t o show that several projects were taken up in a span of days between March 20 and March 30. <br /><br />Huge sums of money had been claimed as wages for the proejcts that existed only on paper. <br /><br />The names of two anganwadi workers, a student and two bank employees also figure in the list of ‘beneficiaries.’ <br /><br />Majority of the works have been executed in the month of March. An inquiry had been ordered into the misappropriation of funds.</p>
