NREGS funds to be transferred to panchayat account directly

After receiving flak for corruption in implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS),the state government has now decided to do away with the three-tier system to handle the NREGS funds.  

On Friday,the state government passed an order stating that the funds would be directly transferred to the account of the gram panchayat,with the pradhan and the rozgar sewak being the combined signatory authorities. The decision will come into effect from Monday. “Till date,there was always a delay in the wage payments as the funds were transferred quite late. Now,we expect that things will move faster since the districts will be monitoring the transactions,” said Jairam Gupta,gram pradhan of Kalli village on the outskirts of Lucknow.