AGARTALA, December 7 (TIWN): Even after the massive MGNREGA scam of Rs 50 crore in Bishalgarh R D Block in which six employees including highly influential BDO com Manik Sarkar's close aide TCS officer Bimal Chakraborty( brother of DYFI State Secretary Amal Chakraborty) is now in jail custody, many officials are still making another horrible attempt to produce blue print for another looting of MGNREGA fund paving the way for massive increase in ruling party's fund . It is learnt from a highly placed sources in state govt that from Dharmanagar to Sabroom in most of the blocks BDOs are now instructing the grassroot employees to generate man days and thereby submit utilization reports within 10 days. However, in most of the blocks grass roots employees like Engineers and Gram Rozgar Sevaks(GRS) are not abiding the instructions of the concerning BDOs as they know that if Audit is conducted, their lives will be under serious trouble.

To make the matter worse a Central Team is now visiting Tripura to investigate actual output of MGNREGA funds allocated during the last few years. It is suspected that after the large scale discoveries of scams under MGNREGA, NRHM, RMSA, SSA sections, Centre has sent the team to make independent investigation into the scams already published in local and national media. And this has blown the bugle of panic in the state administration. And not surprisingly the grassroot employees of MGNREGA( who are mostly contractual) are now scared that if they submit fake utilization reports without any constructions even undertaken, they are likely to face termination from their jobs. Many of them today have spoken to Tripura Infoway correspondant .

All of them held held the same view," What can we do ? BDOs are instructing us to submit utilization report but DMs are instructing to follow rules and regulations strictly. And if we follow rules and regulations we cannot submit reports before the actual completion of the works. Here again arises another problem. Some of our employees are now sacred as their salary has been held up by the BDOs. Recently even Principal Secretary of Rural Development Department instructed all the contractual employees of MGNREGA to see so that the rules and regulations of MGNREGA Act 2005 are not violated. "

         At the same time the grassroot workers are also in a dilemma about the continuous pressure from the BDOs. Often it is seen that under the instruction of BDOs the grass root employees are to carry on the work and also to submit the reports. But whenever there is any complain, the same BDOs issue Show Cause notices to the grassroot employees. And as a result of it they become the victims. The Bimal Chakraborty episode has given a warning signal to all the employees

 Now it is clear that though the BDOs are to act under pressure from CPI(M) party leaders but in time of crisis no leader comes to the rescue of the officials. Yet there are some officials whose main intention is to please the Melarmath and its branch units. And thus, process of MGNREGA looting continues.