Written by: Press Trust of India
2 min readNagpurApr 16, 2014 06:13 PM IST
First published on: Mar 18, 2013 at 04:50 AM IST
Social activist Anna Hazare has claimed to have sufficient proofs of “irregularities” committed in the Centre’s loan waiver scheme for farmers that were brought out by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India in a recent report.“If the state government is interested in going through the proofs,I am willing to hand them over,”Hazare told reporters here on Sunday but did not elaborate about the proofs available with him.
Earlier this month,expressing serious concern over the implementation of the Rs 52,000-crore farm debt waiver scheme,CAG had said ineligible farmers were given the benefit in several cases while deserving ones were left out.
CAG had also found instances of tampering of records and pulled up the Department of Financial Services,Ministry of Finance,for deficient monitoring of the multi-crore scheme.
Hazare alleged that the drought situation in Maharashtra was man made rather than a natural calamity. On Saturday,the activist had said the combine of political apathy and corruption,coupled with unchecked exploitation of water resources,was responsible for parched conditions in the state.
“The drought situation is not natural but man made as we have exploited our water resources to the maximum possible limits without employing scientific methods of water and soil conservation in many years and the result is for everyone to see,” he said. To a question,Anna said whether it was Rahul Gandhi or Narendra Modi,both could not solve the national issues in the country.
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