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Keen to ensure that loopholes in National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) are plugged,the government intends to seek legal advice from members of the higher judiciary.
If at all there are loopholes in the provisions of the Act,we will rectify it by bringing certain changes in the law. We have plans to seek legal opinion from the members of the higher judiciary in this regard, a top official of Rural Development Ministry said today.
Judicial officers are the best persons to give legal point of view for strengthening the provisions of the Act,he added.
The development comes in the wake of the recent comment by Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on reports of irregularities in implemenation of NREGA.
The CJI,while addressing a national seminar on fighting crimes relating to corruption here recently,had said that in recent years,irregularities have been reported in implementation of NREGA wherein master rolls are manipulated and wages are collected by middlemen who falsify records about the extent of work done by individual workers.
The official said the ministry is already interacting with other stakeholders and seeking their suggestions for making the Act more effective.
The Ministry has received more than 400 complaints relating to implementation of NREGA since 2008.
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