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Funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) are likely to be withheld for West Bengal in the upcoming financial year, withno resolution to the Centre-States tussle over the violation of rules in the implementation of the scheme...
Invoking section 27 of the NREG Act, the Centre has been withholding funds for the State since December 2021...
Section 27 of the Act says that, the Central Government may, on receipt of any complaint regarding the issue or improper utilisation of funds granted under this act in respect of any scheme if prima facie satisfied that there is a case, cause an investigation into the complaint made a by any agency designated by it and if necessary, order stoppage of release of funds to the scheme...
Senior officials at the Union Ministry of Rural Development said that the section was invoked only after three years and several warnings were given by the Centre, which the State ignored without giving any cogent explanation or taking any remedial measures...
Sources said, as part of the series of meetings, that the Union Ministry is holding with the State Governments, the West Bengal administration has been called on March 13to present their demand for the next financial year..
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