Panchayat secretary punished for swindling funds for poultry shed construction
Manpur Panchayat in Thandla Block of Jhabua district , seventeen beneficiaries was shown as beneficiaries for goat /poultry sheds under NREGS and had received funds totalling 3 lakh fifteen thousand. The social audits revealed that no such construction has taken place and none of the beneficiaries have received any money for the same. In fact none of the beneficiary was even aware of the same. The Panchayat and the secretary together had unscrupulously withdrawn money from their account and swindled the same in connivance with the engineer. The Gram Sabha passed a resolution to take legal action against the Sarpanch, engineer and the secretary. The case has registered with SDM of the district.
