KONARK: Forty employees of Gopa block office and its different panchayats were charged with fine Rs 500 each for delay in wage payment to the labourers and irregularities in MGNREGA work.
It may be noted that the District
Rural Development Agency (DRDA) of Puri had engaged a Konark-based NGO Young
India for social audit of MGNREGA work in the panchayats under Gopa block,
where they found that the job card holders of 29 panchayats did not get wages
in time. Even the auditors did not get case records of the work completed in
Mahalpada, Bedapur and Banakhandi Panchayats.
After getting report from the
NGO, the block administration did not take any action against the defaulters.
On April 16, the then special secretary of Panchayatiraj Department Arabinda
Padhee directed the district administration to take appropriate steps in the
matter. Following the direction of the district administration, Gopa block BDO
issued show cause notice against three junior engineers, three Grampanchayat
Technical Assistants, 17 Executive Officers of Gram Panchayats and 17 Gram
Rojgar Sevaks, but they failed to give satisfactory answers and they were
charged with fine.
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