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Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan gave detailed assertion over the difficulty.
Bhopal:
The Madhya Pradesh Meeting was adjourned for the day on Wednesday following protests by the Opposition over an NDTV report on irregularities within the implementation of a supplementary diet scheme for schoolchildren. Earlier this month, NDTV, which accessed a confidential report by the state’s personal auditor, reported eye-popping ranges of corruption – from ration transport vehicles that had been discovered to be bikes to wild exaggeration of the variety of beneficiaries – Â within the formidable free meals scheme that was aimed to sort out the difficulty of malnourishment of kids.
The Home was earlier adjourned twice throughout Query Hour as a result of protests over the difficulty.
Firstly of the Query Hour, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan sought permission from Speaker Girish Gautam to make an in depth assertion on the difficulty to clear the Opposition’s “confusion” over it. The Speaker gave permission to Mr Chouhan to make the assertion after the Query Hour.
Chief of Opposition Dr Govind Singh of the Congress, nonetheless, raised objection saying that about 15 adjournment motions had been submitted on this challenge and these ought to be mentioned earlier than the Chief Minister was allowed to make his assertion. Nonetheless, the Speaker declined to concede to the Opposition demand.
After Query Hour when the Chief Minister rose to talk over the difficulty, an enormous protest erupted with the Opposition demanding they be allowed to talk first. Congress MLA’s jumped into the effectively of the Home, raised slogans in opposition to the Chief Minister and sang bhajans for not being allowed to talk first by way of the demanded adjournment movement.
Mr Chouhan, in the meantime, continued to learn his assertion regardless of noisy protests by opposition MLAs.
The Chief Minister denied irregularities in implementation of the scheme and stated the Audior Common’s audit report on the programme was interim in nature and that the variety of a automobile talked about in it was not registered on the transport division’s “Vahan” portal.
“The audit was carried out between 2018 and 2021 and the draft report was despatched to the state authorities by the Accountant Common on August 12, 2022. But it surely was only a draft report and never the ultimate report. The draft report pertains to 2018 to 2021, which incorporates 15 months of Congress authorities too. We’re dedicated to focussed probe on all factors of the report, no matter which authorities was in energy within the state,” he stated.
“Our earlier authorities had performed baseline survey of adolescent ladies (aged between 11 and 14 years) in 2018 and despatched the report back to the centre, as per which the full variety of such out of college ladies was 2.52 lakh (which incorporates these ladies additionally whose title is enrolled in class, however they are not truly going to high school). The variety of such lady beneficiaries below the scheme from 2018 to 2021 was 5.51 lakh solely. The 36 lakh determine talked about within the draft report pertains to complete adolescent ladies and never out of college adolescent ladies (OOSAGs),” he added.
“In March 2018, the work of manufacturing THR was taken away from non-public corporations and handed over to girls self-help teams (SHGs) by our authorities, however the subsequent Congress authorities gave it to MP State Agro Industries Improvement Company Restricted in November 2019, ensuing within the MP Agro taking all THR vegetation in its management in February 2020. This finally resulted within the goal of the mafia being saved out of THR system, truly being misplaced. However on return to energy in March 2020, our authorities once more gave again total THR work to girls self-help teams with impact from September 2021. As an alternative of 200 non-public contractors, the work has now been given to over 2000 girls SHGs, whose collective turnover is round Rs 60 crores,” the Chief Minister maintained.
On the difficulty of doubtful automobile challans talked about within the report, the Chief Minister stated, out of the 81 automobile challans, 31 had been issued through the Congress rule.
“Already motion has been initiated in opposition to 104 officers discovered answerable for irregularities, together with suspension of twenty-two officers and dismissal of six others from service. Pension of three officers has been withheld, increments of two officers withheld and a departmental enquiry is underway in opposition to 40 officers,” he stated
Reacting to the Chief Minister’s assertion, Congress MLA Jitu Patwari demanded Chief Minister’s resignation and a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the alleged rip-off.
“Folks accused for the rip-off are giving statements in the home, if Congress leaders are accountable they need to be punished however atleast talk about first,” he stated.
The confidential 36-page report by the Madhya Pradesh Accountant Common, accessed completely by NDTV, had discovered large-scale fraud, irregularities within the identification of beneficiaries, manufacturing, distribution and high quality management of the formidable free meals scheme for schoolchildren.
A few of the extra egregious findings of the report had been based mostly on an examination of round 24 per cent of beneficiaries of the Take Residence Ration (THR) scheme for 2021, a programme tasked with offering much-needed nourishment to 49.58 lakh registered youngsters and ladies.
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