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| Flouting PMGSY guidelines, previous regime diverted Rs 124 cr | | | Arun Singh
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 21: The new regime headed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has to pay for the misdeeds of its predecessor, and in a new revelation it has been come to fore that the previous government had diverted a whooping Rs 124 crores of funds of Pradan Mantri Grammeen Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) and utilized it for some other purposes, brazenly violating the norms.
Sources informed Early Times that Centre had sanctioned special funds to the tune of Rs 124 crore particularly for clearing the liabilities including land compensation to private owners and forest land.
"But the Omar Abdullah government, brushing aside the set norms for the scheme, utilized the funds in the other programme," said the sources.
"With the callousness of the former government in the state, most of the land compensation could not be cleared. As a result many road projects under the PMGSY are stranded because of land acquisition issues," they said.
They said that though there was no provision for land compensation in any state under the PMGSY, Centre had released the Rs 124 crore as a special assistance to J&K for clearing land compensation cases to compete all the projects.
"But the Abdullah government, giving a damn to the Centre, utilized the funds in other projects except centrally sponsored schemes," the sources said.
The PMGSY was launched in 2000 to provide all-weather connectivity to unconnected habitations with a population of 500 persons and above under the Integrated Action Plan (IAP) in rural areas of the country. |
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