Balaghat (Madhya Pradesh): The civic body of Waraseoni is paying the daily wage workers without checking regular attendance. Such workers are getting their salary on the basis of their names registered in the muster roll, official sources said.
This is the violation of rules, they said. There are over 150 daily wage workers in the civic body, and their attendance is not maintained separately.
Such workers are getting their salary without doing any work. This irregularity has been going on for a long time.
But in other civic bodies in the district, there is a procedure for recording the attendance of the daily wage workers separately. The civic body in Balaghat takes fingerprints of daily wage workers. Separate registers have been prepared to take their attendance.
There are reports that the civic bodies in Lanji, Katangi, Baihar, Mohgaon and Malajkhand are also following this procedure. A list of daily rated workers containing the names of 212 people is available with the office of the civic body.
Most of those people are either associated with the retired employees of Nagar Palika Parishad or councillors or with politicians. Most of the workers do not go to the office and get their wages sitting at home.
According to official sources, a sum of Rs 1,00,000 is distributed among the daily wagers every month.
The then sub-divisional officer of revenue, Kamini Thakur, set up an inquiry committee under the Tehsildar of Lal Barra. When the committee was about to submit a report, the government transferred Thakur. The inquiry report was swept under the carpet.
