The pocket borough of the Gandhi family, Rae Bareilly, was supposed to be the star constituency of the NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). But CNN-IBN has found that almost half of the villagers do not have job cards, without which they have no employment proof.
According to the villagers, their job cards have been taken by the village pradhan. “My job card is with the pradhan. I have asked for it again and again. I don't know why he does not give it to me,” a daily wager at Attakpurva, Babu Khan said.
While another daily wageworker Shyam Kali complained, “When I asked he said what do you want to do with the card.”
There is no reason why the surrogate pradhan should hold on to the cards unless he wants to fill it up with up with fictitious figures. And this suspicion was seconded by work site supervisor Mohammed Umar Khan who said, “The pradhan has the cards. I don't know why he does not give it to the people. He could be bungling on the records.”
For a daily wager the only record of the work done is in the hands of the pradhan with no signature or even a thumbprint of any of the villagers.
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