CM assures high level committee to check Anganwadi payment irregularities

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IMPHAL, February 28: With confusion arising with regards to payment for construction of Anganwadi centres in the 4th phase, chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh assured the house of constituting a high power committee for rectifying the irregularities.   

The Chief Minister was replying to a query raised by Thangmeiband MLA, Y Joykishan, during the question hour of the ongoing assembly session.

Joykishan enquired whether there was any provision of giving payment without constructing the Anganwadi centres under the 4th phase in the state and seek the mode of payment.

The Chief Minister replied that the payment was made as running advance payment and they were made under the land availability certificate (gift deed/no objection certificate), or either based on the issue of work orders to the approved work agencies and initial progress report from the executive engineer /technical staff of DRDA of the district concerned.

Unhappy with the response, Joykishan opined that he had heard of the so called ‘running advance payment’. He pointed out that there are 20 Angalwadi centres in his constituency of which only four centres were completed and saw no signs of constructions for the remaining 16 centres even as the payment was sanctioned.

Subsequently, the Chief Minister confessed to have some confusion on the report submitted to him by the concern department. He assured to constitute a high power committee to conduct a verification of the construction site.

He also observed that the irregularities could have been committed during the tenures of previous MLAs who usually hand over the contract to their local man.

As per the report submitted by the concerned district programme officers of the 6 districts that included Chandel, Tamenglong, Churachandpur, Ukhrul, Bishnupur and Senapati district i,e of the total 1554 sanctioned made for Anganwadi construction building so far 1475 has completed and 79 are in incomplete, said the Chief Minister.

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