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Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 21: The Rural Development Department has stopped work under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme in a Kupwara village after contractors were utilizing the funds for their personal benefits that too by encroaching a rivulet.
The work was stopped after residents of village Haihama, Chalgund in district Kupwara raised objections over the MGNREGA scheme being utilised by contractors, Mohammad Abdullah Dar and Maqbool Dar, for widening an approach road to their orchard by encroaching a rivulet.
Residents alleged that construction of the additional embankment can lead to flash floods in the area as additional embankment can choke the running stream. Residents of village Haihama, Chalgund in the frontier district of Kupwara alleged that the contractors are utilising the funds for their personal ends by choking Nallah Balhama.
They said that the part of the rivulet was already encroached and this year during summer the rivulet has caused damage to the agriculture fields in the area.
The programme officer of the Rural Development in the area, Altaf Ahmad, said that they have sent a notice to the contractor and the work on the embankment has been stopped. Ahmad said that the new embankment can cause damage during flash floods and wash away a culvert that was recently constructed in the village at the cost of Rs 10 lakh. Residents said that the works under MGNREGA are meant for the development of village while the contractors are utilizing it for their own benefits.
Residents alleged that contractors are influential and they got an FIR lodged against a deaf and dumb person Ammanullah Khan his sons and his brothers for beating up the contractor.
The villagers said that no such attack took place on the contractors. However, Station House Officer Kupwara, said that police have lodged FIR against few persons in the village as they have attacked the two contractors. "We have nothing to do with the embankment issue and it is being dealt by the concerned department", he added. |
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